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Apr 17, 2021

computer security thoughts

It seems computer security is as hot as ever topic. One of ideas that constantly float around is that systems will never be secure, that there will always be someone who is going to whistle nuclear launch codes magically with mystical juju’s called zero days. To me that sounds like…

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computer security thoughts
computer security thoughts

Jul 26, 2020

What I wish people thought in university?

Usually European schools offer decent education. Although it is not top of the food chain Stanford or what not American it is not bad. Like food at mensa. I mean we need to be honest, can’t be grumpy about it and ungrateful. What in general pan European school system lacks…

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What I wish people thought in university?
What I wish people thought in university?

Jan 11, 2020

JavaScript/TypeScript productivity

Once we develop apps usually we pick a framework and set of tools. Like the one below. We have usually Lodash inside and bunch of other things. One of things that stand out after prolonged usage is that some of these are used more than the others. Some make you…

Java Script

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JavaScript/TypeScript productivity
JavaScript/TypeScript productivity

Jan 1, 2020

certbot docker

I can’t remember how many times I searched for how to get certbot get certificate with docker and its always somewhere hard to find :-D Here it is in more convenient place stashed so one can copy paste docker run -it — rm — name certbot -v “/etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt” -v “/var/lib/letsencrypt:/var/lib/letsencrypt” -p 443:443 -p 80:80 certbot/certbot certonly — standalone — preferred-challenges http -d mysite.com

Ssl

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Nov 3, 2019

rancher

Why I think rancher is something to roll with when doing things on on prem environments? When one wants to juggle various services and containers one few years ago had little but few alternatives. They all looked like really good but once you actually try them on its like you…

Docker

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Oct 23, 2019

typescript vs javascript

JavaScript is today very dominant language. It is everywhere and its going bigger. One could see its popularity grow and compete and overpower more traditional languages like Java. Ecosystem grew and grew more mature. TypeScript came as advertising to solve problem of large codebases by improving productivity in such environments…

Java Script

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Aug 8, 2019

JavaScript’s success

JavaScript is progressing to be king of the hill among programming languages. Before it was frowned upon by people and underdog of programming languages it grew omnipresent and evolved to dominate. One of the reasons I’d argue is most contributing to JavaScript becoming so popular is the ease with which…

Programming

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Jul 13, 2019

10x engineer

I open twitter and there is 10x everything. To try to attach my blog on the trend I’ll write something too :-D . Here is some words I stole from a book and paraphrased. We are all different. Some are prettier than the others, some play Starcraft better, some play…

Chess

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Jul 9, 2019

ffmpeg small cheat sheet

Here is some quick and dirty video editing that one can use to for example submit app preview to app store or meet constraints on video like duration and resolution. If we want to rescale our video we could do something like ffmpeg -i preview.mov -vf scale=886:1920 video_640.mp4 if we want to strip sound we could ffmpeg -i video_640.mp4 -an -vcodec copy output_file.mp4 if we want to add sound we could

Video

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Jul 8, 2019

how to bundle key and certificate together into one p12 certificate

You might want to bundle certificate and private key together to be able to sign things and googling takes bit more than expected. Here is rundown at one place Lets generate key for certificate by running following openssl genrsa -out mysite.key 2048 Lets obtain signing request with this new key just generated openssl req -new -sha256 -key mysite.key -out mysite.csr Now to be able to have it in p12 format we should convert certificate we got from signing authority to PEM

Ssl

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