Shared mutable app state in Actix Web Not too long ago, and in this very galaxy, I decided to learn the Rust programming language. I went through each chapter in the Rust Book and discovered a lot of things I
Embedding Coral Talk in your Ghost Blog Today I changed how I embed the Coral Talk comment system in my blog posts. Previously I had downloaded the Casper theme and edited the post.hbs file and inserted the Coral embed
Caching apollo graphql query results with your own caching hoc I am currently building a search portal at work and have been using a React, Apollo Client, and GraphQL stack. The search app so far is pretty simple. It uses apollo link state
A privacy respecting talk gravatar plugin Some time ago I started using the Coral Talk comment system for my blog. The system is probably way overkill for a blog my size, and I have so far only received one
Building Docker images with Gitlab CI Different approaches to building Docker images with Gitlab CI, drawbacks, and solutions. My most popular blog post so far is Setting up a Docker image builder with Gitlab CI Runner. The focus of
Coral Talk - An open source comment system from Mozilla Coral Talk is a comment and moderation system from Mozilla. It is part of the Coral project which proclaims that it wants to improve journalism. I'm no journalist, but I found their comment
Jalopy (game) - A trip through Eastern Europe in a Lada I recently learned about an early access game called Jalopy. For those who does not know jalopy is a term used to describe an old and damaged car in barely functioning state. I
isso - a lightweight privacy minded comment system I've been using Ghost blog for quite some time now and have been very happy with the functionality, performance, and the simplicity of the solution. I use the default theme Casper which I
GPG, Web of Trust, and Keybase.io If you are a developer I'm sure you are familiar with GPG also abbreviated GnuPG which stands for Gnu Privacy Guard. It is an open-source implementation of the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) algorithm.
Setting up (B)ELK stack on your server I'm a developer by day, but as evening falls I sometimes like to dabble as an amateur sysops. I've recently helped out setting up a server as part of a hobby project that
Setting up a Docker image builder with Gitlab CI Runner In this post I'll give you an idea on how to implement a Docker image builder with the Gitlab Runner. Before I do that I'll briefly introduce Gitlab and Gitlab CI. Update! See
Netflix launches second round of kimmification Netflix recently released the second season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, one of their original series focused around situational comedy. The first season introduced the titular character Kimmy Schmidt and bootstrapped the series with
Clojure - A first encounter I have been thinking for some time about picking up Clojure, a functional programming language and Lisp dialect that runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine. I have always wanted to learn
Mosh (mobile shell) It was quite a good while ago that an acquaintance of mine made me aware of a great alternative to SSH called Mosh (short for mobile shell). Mosh was born out of MIT
