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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

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 script. Then I re-uploaded the customized theme and enabled it in

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 to store local application state like the users' search query and

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

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.

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

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

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 find to be a minimalistic and rather pleasing blog theme. I've

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. So what is this privacy stuff all about? Well, PGP/GPG

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

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

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 a rather bizarre premise: The series follows 29-year-old Kimmy Schmidt (Kemper)

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 a proper functional language, and Clojure with its Python and Ruby

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 as a result of a few important factors. Latency on the