Archlinux Getting a new computer The computer I decided to buy a Framework 13 AMD Laptop mainly because I love the idea of modular laptops and I want to support it. I chose an AMD Ryzen 5 processor, 1x32 GB of RAM and the 250GB hard drive, no operatig
productivity GTD on NextCloud The GTD Framework So the other day I stumbled into this article on The Changelog [https://changelog.com/news/gtd-in-15-minutes-JgDb]. It is called GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done [https://hamberg.no/gtd] and contains a condensed summary of
linux Shared SAMBA hard drive Configuration Recently I found this page [https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-Network-Share/] on the RetroPie documentation, it lists the benefits of sharing ROMS on a Network Share so files are not stored on the Raspberry Pi's SD. And frankly, for the setup
Infrastructure Restructuring my infra Not so much time ago I wrote a post on my personal infrastructure [https://namelivia.com/my-infrastructure-as-code/], as it has been evolving since it was an old laptop running Nginx [https://www.nginx.com/] at home and that evolution is reflected in the way
git Get GitHub repositories failing on master One problem that you may have when you have a lot of repositories with automatic updates is that from time to time your repository may fail on master and you may not notice. In order to address so I was wondering if there is
Infrastructure My infrastructure as code setup I've been able to publish on GitHub my whole infrastructure as code setup, this is the result of several weekends of code refactoring and rearranging data here and there in order to make it as modular and reusable as possible, here is
travelperk TravelPerk OpenAPI & Python In the same way I wrote a PHP wrapper for the TravelPerk API [https://namelivia.com/travelperk-http-php/] I've also written it for Python. GitHub - namelivia/travelperk-http-python: Python SDK for accessing the TravelPerk APIPython SDK for accessing the TravelPerk API . Contribute to
php Configuring Xdebug on Docker This brief post will be more like a note for my future self, to know how to setup Xdebug for debugging complex problems on PHP code that is running inside a Docker container. There are thousands of articles for setting up debugging on a
aws Backendless website Here I will post a story on how I made a website for my father's work that he could update and modify but it doesn't have backend or a database, so it is very cheap! The resulting website can visited
Python A web application for everything When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Or in this case, the story of how I started writing web applications to solve everyday life problems in a very complicated way. But still, my job is making software, and I
travelperk TravelPerk OpenAPI & PHP After some months of work I'm releasing version 1.0 of the following projects: namelivia/travelperk-http-phpPHP SDK for accessing the TravelPerk API. Contribute to namelivia/travelperk-http-php development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHubnamelivia [https://github.com/namelivia/travelperk-http-php/] namelivia/laravel-travelperkA TravelPerk
Python Keygen generator Y [https://github.com/namelivia/keygen]esterday I was preparing a code to be published, but as I got stuck and was a bit tired of it I decided to put it away for a while, and do something fun for a while. I
2019 Year review This is a review of what I've been mostly doing during 2019, this has been a pretty important year for me, I left the city I had been living on for the last ten years, switched jobs, switched technologies and even switched
gnuplot Plotting data from the command line This is a short post on how can you plot some data in a simple and fast way from your unix terminal using gnuplot [http://gnuplot.info/]. Usually people tend to generate plots using office suites that are tools designed to many pruposes apart
php PHP-FPM optimization on AWS We had the following problem at work that was causing lot of trouble and stress, sometimes, apparently out of nowhere back-end response times started to grow on every request until they reached the timeout value and all requests started to fail with a 504
Japanese Watching Japanese TV using a Raspberry Pi I started studying Japanese two years ago, however this last year was terrible for my Japanese knowledge, I have spent very little time reading or listening to Japanese as I have no contact with the language on my daily routine and had no time
Raspberry pi Microservice for Raspberry PI GPIO control Once I had connected my Raspberry Pi to the LAN network, and the heating system was driven by a Raspberry Pi's GPIO [https://namelivia.com/raspberry-pi-driven-heater/], the way to turn it on/off was by logging into the Pi through ssh, and
Raspberry pi Raspberry PI driven heating In this post I will describe the process to control my house heating system from the Internet using a Raspberry PI zero and a relay board, that can be programmed, controlled and report its status across the internet. Since I moved in with my
ruby Fixing XLS files for one of my sideprojects The problem Recently I had to work on this issue [https://github.com/namelivia/caixabank-homebank/issues/1] of one of my projects hosted on Github and these are the notes I took. The repository contains a very old Ruby language tool I made for
Android Using self hosted Anki In this post I will describe the setup I will follow to start using Anki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki_(software)], hopefully as a daily routine. The motivation for this was reading this detailed post [http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html] from Michael Nielsen
security What user names do hackers try on my computers? Thinking about hacker attacks and computer security in general the other day, I configured a Internet connected machine with an open ssh login prompt in order to track what user names try to connect to it and then made a small web application that
aws Setting up and automating Let's Encrypt HTTPS certificates for AWS Opsworks These last weeks I did learn a lot about HTTPS Certificates, the most important lesson: Don't underestimate HTTPS Certificates because misconfiguration and other problems can make Nginx not to start, they can block your users from accessing your site, and would bring
Archlinux Sharing media files between KODI and Archlinux: My setup Hello, in this post I will not be reinventing the wheel or anything but I would like just to mention a couple of things I configured at home in order to play video or audio files I can start downloading from anywhere later on
Japanese Learning Japanese through videogames: Street Fighter 2 As I am studying japanese I need to practice a bit specially now that the exams are over (JLPT was on December 4th), so I don't forget everything I learnt. I tried to play some videogames as I thought it would be
Archlinux How to get Japanese input on Archlinux + Openbox I wasn't planning to write this here as there are many official guides on this topic [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Input_Japanese_using_uim] and it would be convenient to take a look at them. But for me it has
