Blurb Dust I think at some point in the future, scientists are going to discover that dust has consciousness and is sentient. It doesn't just aimlessly gather in certain corners of your rooms due to its layout and airflow. It has a reason, a purpose. They
Lifelog Learning the Trades Our products work pretty well unattended now, requiring less overtime from me unless external factors throw things out of place. After working through the night, mornings are when I "come home from work" to leisure time. I installed Steam on my laptop
Tech Set Default Sound Output Device With pactl and systemd My laptop's audio output port is screwed up and only the left channel works. So I have my laptop connected by HDMI to a 22" monitor and a 3-feet aux cable hooked up to the audio output of the monitor. Linux Mint always
Tech Mount Remote Filesystems Using sshfs and systemd The following service mounts a remote filesystem to local path /mnt/myfs at boot time using systemd and sshfs with public key auth. [sudo] apt install sshfs Prepare a local folder for the mount point: [sudo] mkdir /mnt/myfs Create a file /lib/systemd/
Tech Copying an InfluxDB measurement into a new measurement [READMORE] You can split a single InfluxDB measurement into smaller measurements for performance tuning or for application aspects you may not have planned while initially storing data. In the influx shell, run the following statement: SELECT * INTO <destination_measurement> FROM <source_
Lifelog Mayonnaise & Wine There are precisely four types of wine — You take a sip and you go "Ewww...get this nonsense away from me" You take a sip and you go "Not bad" You take a sip and you go "Yumm! What's
Tech Docker: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 113] No route to host Experienced a strange issue today while rebuilding one of my Python containers which was failing on pip install. The problem is strange because internet works fine on my host system (that also uses Google's 8.8.8.8). Seems to be a temporary issue,
Tech Choosing a Dev Machine IMHO, the Mac is not a dev machine. macOS is not a dev-friendly OS to do your programming. You can make it as *nix-like as possible. You can install Docker and stuff and make it bearable. But there's so much else that gets in
Lifelog "And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains..." I still remember the first time I attended a "rich people" party at a fancy restaurant. I still remember being dragged into pointless "have-you-tried" conversations. I had nothing to contribute in return. "You must try the delicious [insert-veg-here] soup
Lifelog When Are You Getting Married? The question is backed by good intentions, as if to say — have you found yourself a companion yet? ...because life will soon suck like never before. But it's highly invasive and makes a lot of assumptions. Before they attack a civilization, the Borg send
Tech Google sucks at UX flows This [1] is the UI for managing Google's service in G Suite. I totally missed the fact that this page was paginated. The list has loads of whitespace at the bottom, which on my large screen monitor is quite considerable. This is still a
Lifelog The Perception Of Loss Say you spend a decent amount of money to make a flight or hotel reservation that you later aren't able to make use of. Would it make you sad? Would you feel like you've lost money? If so, why? It recently occurred to me
Tech Lessons From Using Amazon MQ I'm not sure what rationale Amazon Web Services employs to name its offerings — AWS DeepLens, AWS DeepLens/AppSync vs. Amazon MQ/Lex, etc. — but Amazon MQ still appears under the AWS namespace in the SDK. FWIW, it's basically Active MQ 5.15.0 (at
TIL TIL There are proxies and firewalls that don't support HTTP PATCH ...and you get around them using HTTP POST + X-HTTP-Method-Override PATCH header
Lifelog Being an Adult Each time someone instructs me to "be an adult about it", a thought pops into my head about adulthood. For me, adulthood is the ability, nay, privilege of heading straight to the dessert counter in a buffet situation. Although this thought makes
Tech Docker vs. Disk Space After constantly battling with my system over free space at a crucial time when deadlines had to be met, I finally decided to spend time figuring out what the heck was going on. docker-compose up was failing with errors like INTERNAL ERROR: cannot create
Tech Containerization vs. FaaS Containerization is a major leap from using fat VMs to run isolated environments for your app. But I'm not entirely sold on "Dockerize all the things". I <3 the workflow of coding, testing, and deploying Docker containers to AWS ElasticBeanstalk. If
Lifelog #PrayForXYZ I've given up on trying to understand the religious mind. I no longer post stuff on Facebook that might be controversial in religious circles. I've grown to let things go. But that doesn't mean religiosity of people and their beliefs don't bother me. At
Lifelog Taking a Break I'm not easy company for touring a distant land. I have rigid, strong opinions on what constitutes a perfect vacation. I also come with a whole list of quirks and stubborn ideas. For example, I have no problem in doing the exact same thing
Music Waves of the Danube My parents' wedding album has a cool mechanical music box with a magnificent tune I've been hunting for years.
Tech Fetching millions of rows in Python w/ psycopg2 I ran into an issue with psycopg2 getting "stuck" on querying a large result set. cursor.execute("...") would run fine and so would cursor.fetchone(), but cursor.fetchmany(BATCH_SIZE) with a moderate value of BATCH_SIZE=100 would get
Tech Couldn't connect to Docker daemon / ERROR: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF When running docker-compose build, if you encounter the error — ERROR: Couldn't connect to Docker daemon at http+docker://localunixsocket - is it running? or ERROR: Error processing tar file(exit status 1): unexpected EOF — ensure the following: Current user can access the docker daemon
Blurb Back to a CMS This blog was earlier based on static pages generated by Gatsby. Compared to other static site generators such as Jekyll, Hugo, etc, I loved Gatsby's use of React and Webpack to deliver the entire site including all pages in one go. The most recent
Lifelog Bizzaro World This weekend I had the weird pleasure of meeting someone who could be my polar opposite and a real sense of why they say opposites attract. Maybe "attract" isn't the right word in this case. Intrigue, maybe. Throughout the conversation, I felt
Tech Project Management with GitLab After giving Trello a second try, I can earnestly say it doesn't work for us. Kanban boards are a good way to schedule short-term tasks. But you wind up needing to supplement it with other tools to manage, among other things, the spec document