Self-hosted GitHub Actions with FireActions and Falcon
After once again running out of free GitHub action build minutes, I decided to revisit the self-hosted runners and ended up using FireActions with falconDev GHA Cache Server
Testing UI design with different OpenAI models
I gave four OpenAI Codex configurations the same brief for an interactive, GitHub-style issue-tracker mockup. The results are a useful reminder that a model choice changes the product designer you get—not merely the amount of code.
Local port registry for Codex
Avoid port conflicts with Codex port registry
Largest US Companies by market cap 2000-2026
An interactive bubble chart of large U.S. public companies by inflation-adjusted market capitalization.
MacBook Lineup 2026
A visual comparison of March 2026 MacBook lineup prices across configurations.
Hosting 10 apps in 5€ VPS with Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Flux, GitHub, Sops and Codex
Recently I moved all my random small projects to a private server. This is a short description of how I run bunch of apps with microk8s, Cloudflare and other tools
Shortening the Kubectl prompt in Fish Tide
Quick notes for making a shorter Kubectl context prompt in Tide
Small nuclear reactors
Large scale nuclear reactors have become challenging to build in west. Renewable energy has become cheap and is driving the...
Language learning with AI
I was reading a discussion on Hacker News about language learning tools. One comment by “sieve” got my interest, “I have to say that Krashen’s input hypothesis and Orberg’s Lingva Latina is probably the way to go if you are learning languages as an adult.” ...
Docker model runner
Docker model runner is Docker's solution for running LLMs locally
Reduce UUID memory consumption in pandas
I was working with a dataset of tens of millions of rows of data, which is using UUIDs as identifiers. ...
PowerPoint: Embedding Fonts
"This presentation cannot be edited because it contains one or more read-only embedded (restricted) fonts. To edit t...
Migrating from WordPress to Astro with OpenAI
I finally got around to move this blog from Wordpress to more modern solution. This has been a long ...
Fixing invalid SamAccountName in Azure AD Domain Services
Azure AD user had been initially created with a typo on his name. All the attributes had ...
Using Azure.Storage module from Azure PowerShell function
I was building a simple tool to automate some uploads to Azure Blob Storage in Azure Func...
Site-to-site VPN with Meraki and Azure
After setting up point-to-site VPNs on Azure, I thought I'd just throw in quickly also a site-to-site connec...
Ping with timestamps
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Git on Windows & Github, authentication suddenly stopped working
I'm using Github 2FA and git on Windows with the Windows Credentials store credenti...
QC35, Windows, Bluetooth audio
I started investigating pairing problems with my Bose QC35 headphone/headset and Windows. At first, I was wondering w...
Get SSL cert in PFX format using OpenSSL
Steps for getting SSL certificate in pfx format (suitable for Azure for example)...
Azure, add IP address to cloud service
Azure now supports multiple IP addresses per cloud service. This means you can, for example, host multiple w...
Azure CLI tools, Credentials have expired, please reauthenticate
After installing Azure CLI tools and trying to use them for the first time on Wind...
Linux
Check if SELinux is enabled:...
IntellijJ IDEA: Maven home directory is invalid
When creating a new project based on Maven archetype, IntelliJ IDEA wants to know certain Maven-re...
Convert SPSS .SAV file to CSV (for Excel)
SPSS alternative, GNU PSPP includes a very easy-to-use tool that can convert the SPSS SAV file to CSV. Thi...
Filezilla GnuTLS error -15: An unexpected TLS packet was received and VsFTP
Too-long-don't-want-to-read--give-me-commands-to-paste-to-my-terminal:...
Enable debug log in Azure Storage Emulator
Azure Storage Emulator has logging capability but this is not enabled by default and it does not seem to...
Ubuntu, disable special effects
I installed Ubuntu under Hyper-V and for some reason the UI with all the effects is S-L-O-W....
Change SQL Server Express authentication mode
When you install SQL Server Express you can select the authentication mode. If you want to enable SQ...
Keymapper mappings for using Apple keyboard with Windows
I fell in love with the full size Apple keyboard. It is low profile and I really like how...
Digging Liferay article categories from database
In order to investigate certain issues I wanted to find out the journal categories directly from...
Write log from Liferay velocity templates
set ($logFactory = $portal.getClass().forName('com.liferay.portal.kernel.log.LogFactoryUtil')) set ($l...
Visio 2013 and 2016 disable rerouting
Drop something to the drawing surface, all other shapes freak out, running away from your new shape which you ...
Disable Tomcat thread pool
I recently ran into issues with a third party application that had certain issues with threadlocals. Namely certain parts...
Create self-signed SSL certificate for Azure
Creating a self-signed certificate is simple - when you know the correct commands....
Hotkeys for moving windows around screens
I'm using multiple monitors and sometimes it would be useful to have hotkeys that would position the activ...
Windows 8 hotkeys
Few Windows 8 hotkeys I have found useful:...
SSD encryption - How does it work?
Quite many vendors brag about the AES-256 encryption capabilities of their SSD drives. This sounds good, ever...
Get rid of NaN and INF values in Orbeon
With calculations in binds, it is easy to run into NaN (Not-a-Number) or INF values showing on the form....
Orbeon forms processsor for extracting locale from request
A simple processor for Orbeon forms that extracts locale information from request....
Orbeon, get-request-attribute and "Content is not allowed in prolog"
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Debugging Orbeon XPL programs
Orbeon XPL is a way of describing processing flows using XML syntax. Since there is no debugger, the debugging mostl...
Orbeon XPL copy values from request
Quite often I end up in situations where I need to use a value from an HTTP request (either parameter or heade...
Customizing Liferay service builder templates
Liferay service builder code generation is based on Freemarker templates. The default templates com...
Liferay service builder, class loader issues
When you create a new service with Liferay service builder, the system generates a whole lot of boil...
Debugging ClassCastExceptions in Eclipse
Working with application servers, it is not uncommon to encounter strange ClassCastExceptions that seem ...
Using git to deploy new versions
Simple instructions for setting up git so that you can push new versions to server from the comfort of your works...
NullPointerException while creating new Portlet project in Liferay IDE
Creating a new portlet project in Liferay IDE may result in a NullPointerExce...
Starting up node.js apps on Ubuntu
Tim Smart describes in his article a great way to use [upstart on Ubuntu to startup node.js applications](http:...
D-Link routers and ZoneEdit dynamic dns
Some D-Link models support updating selected dynamic DNS services. The support is, however, limited, and it ...
Install latest MongoDB in Ubuntu
The MongoDB version available from the default Ubuntu/Debian repositories can be fairly old. Luckily it is easy to ...
Replacing multiple occurences of character in bash
I wanted to replace multiple occurrences of underscore with single in one bash shell script. With...
Transfer MongoDB collection to Windows
A quick'n'dirty<sup>1</sup> way for transferring MongoDB collection from Linux to Windows, using [plink](h...
Apache reverse proxy on Ubuntu
Install Apache and Enable relevant Apache proxy modules...
Ubuntu quick firewall configuration
Quick instructions for enabling firewall on Ubuntu using Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw). The resulting rules are q...
MongoDB as service on Windows
Quick install script for installing MongoDB as a service on Windows. Further instructions are available in official Mo...
Refresh DHCP IP address in Ubuntu
bash Release existing sudo dhclient -r Get new sudo dhclient Restart networking sudo /etc/init.d/networking st...
Using Dropbox to sync Sublime Text settings across Windows computers
Sublime Text stores settings and packages in %APPDATA%\Sublime Text 2 folder by...
Nokia's smart future
Resent news tell that Nokia has already in November acquired Smarterphone, a Norwegian company that makes a lightweight platf...
The user specified as a definer does not exist when using LOCK TABLES
Encountered annoying MySQL problem when trying to dump database from a backup ...
Logging to Loggly from JBoss 5.1.0
[Loggly](http://loggly.com/) is a fairly new cloud-based log management service. You can think about it as a ligh...
Nokia still loving Linux?
Job postings are always the best way to glance to a future of company, aren't they? Maybe this reads as further evidence...
Nokia bringing Linux and Qt to S40?
Rumours are saying that Nokia's "Meltemi" project is about melting Linux and Series40 and adding some Qt magic...
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat is the latest company to join the big happy cloud provider family and they have interesting stuff to bring. OpenShift is ...
Work 2.0
Think about how the cloud changed the way startups were run when we went from 20th century Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. During the dot-com boom it w...
Enhanced JIRA widget for Zendesk
Zendesk provides a very nice JIRA integration widget that allows creating JIRA cases directly from Zendesk and keep...
Cross-domain HTTP with Python
For security and other reasons, browsers put limitations on what sites you can access from JavaScript. The...
Amazon Beanstalk
This is exactly what the world was waiting for! Amazon published [Beanstalk](http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk), their first ...
Atlassian Crowd - Zendesk integration
In my quest to free my colleagues from unnecessary passwords, I created a simple web application for integrati...
New features for SWIFT Alliance v7
Few interesting v7 related things....
Grouping and null values in Jasper reports
Nulls are not created equal - except in Jasper. In some cases, you want to do grouping on the report ba...
Stretching band in Jasper
Making a band stretch according to the height of its contents is simple. First, you need to have some content that is st...
Theory of (web framework) evolution
1G It all started with cgi-bin applications that really did not separate the templating from the rest of the...