This category is like a junk drawer. Everything that I haven’t put into any category goes in here. How often/ do you organize your junk drawers?
I’m running Adsense on a few of my React websites, and they’re server side rendered with Next.js. Getting approved 1. SSR your app You’ll have issues with getting approved by Adsense team if you’re not server side rendering the app. I applied a few years ago, so I’m not sure Read more…
In this post I’ll explain a setup for one of my NextJS websites on elasticbeanstalk. You probably already know about what are NextJS, Nginx and elasticbeanstalk, so I’ll skip the introductory definitions. I have a hybrid NextJS website. Some content is Hint: If you just have a static nextjs app, Read more…
Content delivery network (CDN) is my recommended way of serving statics because of : 1. Separation of concerns Meat of the app is on the main example.com, assets are on a subdomain like cdn.example.com. 2. Cookie-less domain Asset domain remains cookie-less, e.g. cookie based authentication only bloats domain.com requests === Read more…
Primary reason for using a smart card reader was to access Croatian e-citizens portal with my eid. I had some issues doing this on Ubuntu, not really a plug and play even with extensive instructions from https://www.id.hr/… Old school way, the waiting lines I recently had to renew my passport, Read more…
To challenge your brain. Do not lock yourself into the paradigm of your chosen language. Over 10 years I worked with with Java, Scala, C#, Php, Python, Javascript, Typescript and Rust. I like to learn new languages because I’m curious by nature. I’m not looking for a holy grail, because Read more…
I’m awkward to say I spent a few hours to get gh pages going locally on my computer. Github pages are ran with Jekyll. Jekyll is a Ruby based static site runner. I never worked with Ruby, so… There is an official instruction here and you might not need my Read more…
When I need access to the files on the local network I usually go for SSH or Samba. SSH Destination machine Destination host has to have SSH package installed, in order to accept SSH connections: sudo apt update sudo apt install openssh-server Local machine Authenticate to destination machine and access Read more…
Screen is a persistent virtual terminal manager, useful when working on a remote server. More info here. sudo su apt update && apt install screen Commonly used commands screen -S <screen_name> – create new screen screen -ls – list all screens screen -x <screen_name> – attach to screen session screen Read more…