I’m getting married pretty soon, and I figured it’d be fun to make my own rings. I’d seen a Nile Red video where he made purple gold, and the process seemed simple enough: Make a mold, pour some molten metal … Read more
Network switches are simple devices, packets go in, packets go out. Luckily people have figured out how to make it complicated instead and invented managed switches. Usually this is done by adding a web-interface for configuring the settings and see … Read more
Increasingly, developers are using reliable workflows to help build applications. Reliable workflows are programs that always run to completion–if they’re interrupted, they automatically resume from where they left off. They make it much easier to write complex stateful programs, such … Read more
Follow @popovicu94 This post is the documentation of my journey to building my first Linux system. I started with no PCB experience whatsoever and I am here to document the journey to my Linux-ready PCB. The initial part of this … Read more
If you read my previous blog post, you probably already know that I like my smart home open-source and very local, and that certainly includes any voice assistant I may have. If you watched the video demo, you have probably … Read more
Written by nyanpasu64on June 11, 2024 Back in May, I was taking a walk around the neighborhood when I came across an oak tree with dozens of galls hanging from the stem. At first I thought these were seed pods and … Read more
Follow @popovicu94 Today we’ll build some USB devices. By this I mean devices that can be plugged into your computer and be recognized by them. The goal of this writeup is to be your first article to read when embarking … Read more
It is possible to increase the speed at which EC2 instances boot! This can be critical for certain types of workloads, where a fresh EC2 instance is needed to process some request or task. At Depot, we accelerate builds, so … Read more
As the scorching Japanese summer creeps ever closer with each passing day, I kept thinking about my yesteryear idea of remotely controlling my bedroom A/C over the Internet. With a simple click of a button ten minutes before bedtime, I … Read more
Mattermost uses Elasticsearch in large deployments to reduce the stress the database suffers when running search queries while returning even better, fine-tuned results. For this to work, Elasticsearch needs to index all data we want to search for, so that … Read more