Minikube is an extremely useful tool to run a development Kubernetes single-node cluster locally, on a development machine. I use it regularly on my Linux box and, as I want to do development on my MacBook Pro too, I thought I’d use it there to. In order to do so, I have created a simple … More HOW-TO Install Minikube on MacOS
I have now had a TS-212 QNAP NAS for many years and I am really (really!) happy with it: it works exceedingly well for what I originally bought it for (a networked backup drive, essentially) but it has also so many more facilities that I really have come to depend on it for a number … More QNAP NAS Hybrid Backup Sync restart
As everyone knows by now, Microsoft has bought Github for several $BN’s. Depending on your point of view, this can be either a catastrophe or a disaster: nothing good can possibly come out of it, apart from, possibly, having prevented Github (the corporation) going into a steady, sad decline, as they seemed unable to figure … More HOW-TO Move your code out of GitHub
Here’s a puzzler for you: given the code below, what does the for loop print? using HandlersMap = std::map<std::string, std::function<std::string(const std::string&)>>; using MetaMap = std::map<std::string, HandlersMap>; void insert(MetaMap& meta, const std::string& key, const std::string& sub) { auto handlers = meta[key]; handlers[sub] = [=](const std::string& msg) { return “The response for ” + sub + ” … More Beware of C++11 `auto`
A “fast-moving object” (FOM) in the world of image detection is defined as one whose motion is faster than can be captured by a single image, and will result in a blurred “streak”. This poses some challenges when trying to detect its speed and trajectory, as well as estimating future trajectory and impact. Typical examples … More Detection of Fast-Moving Objects (FOM) using OpenCV
With the 0.5.0 version just released, crytto now allows file sharing (e.g., via email) by sharing public keys: encrypt_send -o /tmp/my-secret.enc \ -p /home/marco/.ssh/my-key.pub \ ./my-secret.doc This generates an encrypted file (in the location specified with the -o option) and an equally encrypted “passphrase” which can then be sent (ideally via a separate sharing mechanism; although, as … More File Encryption Utility now offers file sharing
We have just released version 0.8.0 of our distlib C++ library that implements a number of popular distributed systems algorithms. This concludes a first iteration of the “SWIM Gossip Protocol” for failure detection: the implementation is now fully thread-safe and can scale up to many servers with minimal process overhead. The gossip_example.cpp toy server shows how a client … More Gossip-based Failure Detectors – 0.8.0 released
A new release of the Crytto library (0.4.0) has just been published, which greatly simplifies encrypting (and decrypting) files The new release adds the decrypt script which, when combined with the existing automatic retrieval of the encryption key from the keystore, makes it a breeze to decrypt files. For example, if you had encrypted your … More File Encryption (and Decryption) Made Easy
If you have recently upgraded your MacOS laptop/desktop to 10.12.14, you will have noticed that now the System Preferences icon in the doc shows a mysterious “notification badge”: Just opening System Preferences shows absolutely no clue as to where the notification is coming from, nor what to do about it. It turns out that Apple … More What does the Notification “badge” on MacOS System Preferences icon really mean?
Sometimes, you need to send both a visual and email alert for something that is checked using a background process (for example, running a `crontab` job): `notify-send` and `yagmail` provide a more user-friendly alternative on Ubuntu Linux desktop than scraping logs. … More Using `notify-send` and `yagmail` to send an alert if /boot partition is about to run out of space
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