A Deep Dive into Containers
Since years ago, containers have been a hot topic everywhere. There are many container softwares like Docker, Linux Containers and Singularity. It’s hard to say one understand what containers are w...
Keep using Flash Player in browsers in 2021
It’s 2021 now, and Adobe Flash Player has been end-of-life after December 31, 2020. There are many cases where you want to retain it, however. For example, you may want to keep enjoying an old game...
Build GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions
Why use an external service when there’s an in-house GitHub service?
Working against WordPress DeBlocker plugin
I’ll go straight to the solution (keep in mind that it’s considerably primitive, so use at your own risk) with code attached below. It’s a Tampermonkey userscript.
Enabling better “Related Posts” with Jekyll
There’s a less-known feature of Jekyll that populates related_posts correctly with “related” posts, instead of the 10 latest posts when it’s disabled by default.
Use RSA CA Certificates with OpenSSH 8.2
OpenSSH 8.2 is coming to the latest Long-Term Service release of Ubuntu, Focal Fossa (20.04), and has some breaking changes for users using an SSH Certificate Authority.
3 ways to use MySQL / MariaDB CLI without password
For all of us who are learning to use or developing with MySQL or MariaDB, it’s a common task to manually log in to the database for inspection. This is usually done with the mysql command line cli...
High-performance mass web crawling on AWS
The 3rd-and-last experiment of course Web Information Processing and Application required us to create a recommendation engine, and “predict” the rating (1-5 stars) for 4M user-item pairs based on ...