NGINX Feature Flag Reverse Proxy
Use NGINX as a reverse proxy to different back-end servers based on feature-flags set in the ngx_http_auth_request_module add-on. In my implementation for Secret Party the…
June 17, 2024

Use NGINX as a reverse proxy to different back-end servers based on feature-flags set in the ngx_http_auth_request_module add-on. In my implementation for Secret Party the…
June 17, 2024

To use PHP with iconv on Alpine Linux - in a Docker container for example - you need to use the preloadable iconv library, which was previously provided with the gnu-libiconv…
April 26, 2021

This is a setup guide for creating a Syscoin 3.0 Masternode. You will need a Virtual Private Server (VPS) from hosting providers such as Amazon EC2, DigitalOcean Droplets, Google…
May 7, 2018

I use JIRA in a cloud infrastructure where it's obviously desirable to serve the contents over SSL, therefore I set up an NGINX as a JIRA reverse proxy for unencrypted requests…
November 11, 2017

It's not uncommon to need to validate if an SSL certificate / private key combination is valid. The easiest way to do this is with OpenSSL, an open source library that... is a…
September 29, 2017

I use Jenkins for CD/CI, but was running into the issue of deleted files not being removed from the target server. My solution to this issue was to only use Jenkins to generate…
May 6, 2017

This is a quick setup guide for the application stack I have been using recently. Most of my latest work has been a throwback to the first server-side programming I did in the…
August 9, 2016

It is possible to update the firmware on an Onagofly micro drone on Mac OS X using the QGroundControl software. The download for the software can be found here:…
July 15, 2016

I am using MariaDB - the open source version of MySQL - and wanted an easy way to backup my databases on a regular schedule without having to do anything when I created or…
March 18, 2016

If your OS X El Capitan/Sierra/High Sierra update won't reboot you can skip to the fix or check here for the (mostly) automated fix script. Otherwise feel free to read the saga…
October 22, 2015

I recently had the need to detect when new elements were appended to the DOM, however by default in jQuery there is no "append" event. This meant that the code I wanted to write,…
October 2, 2015

Moving Averages can be calculated in Google Spreadsheets using standard functions, however the formulas can get pretty complex when dealing with different durations, and it also…
August 9, 2015