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Running Debian 12 on Windows with WSL 2

01 Oct 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

So, maybe your employer want you to use Windows. Obviously you still want to use Linux as you want to run whatever operating system your production servers run. If running Virtualbox or VMWare causes too much switching between environments then WSL...

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Distributed metrics in PHP using Go and Gob

25 Sep 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

In the previous post I showed how to do high frequency metrics in PHP with TCP sockets. In this post I'll show how to collect and combine metrics from multiple PHP application servers. Instead of sending the log lines from each server to a single node, the monotonically...

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High frequency metrics in PHP with TCP sockets

23 Sep 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

When you are running a high traffic website you may run multiple PHP servers to handle the load. When you want to track a performance metric (such as API or database calls) you may need to do some high frequent logging for performance analysis. In this blog post we present a standardized...

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GMKtec NucBox G5: a tiny Linux PC

01 Sep 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

I don't like laptops, neither to own nor to work on. They are very costly, are hard to repair or upgrade and I get neck and back pain from working on them. I love to work at places where the desk is (properly) equipped with (height-adjustable) monitor, keyboard and mouse. Most...

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ASRock Deskmini X600 SFF Linux PC

15 Aug 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

I am upgrading my 2021 Deskmini X300 to a X600 (finally...). The new machine has an AMD Ryzen 7 8700G instead of a 5700G CPU. It has 64GB DDR5 at 5600MHz instead of DDR4 at 3200MHz. I have the AM5 (instead of AM4) model of the Noctua low profile CPU cooler...

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Minesweeper written in Go using RayLib

15 Jul 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

In April I wrote Fyne Mines (Minesweeper in Go using Fyne) and I'm very happy with the release on the Fyne Games page. When further investigating cross platform game development (in Go) I ran into the RayLib engine (and it's Go bindings). During the holidays I decided to recreate...

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Running Debian on a MacBook M3

15 Jun 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

In the hypothetical case that your employer is so kind to provide you with a MacBook Pro M3 (please don't buy one) you have only one question: How do I run Linux on it? First you want to install Asahi Linux, but then you find out that the M3 is not supported. Now what?...

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A 2D puzzle game in Go using Fyne

22 Apr 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

Last month I wrote Minesweeper written in Go using Fyne. It was a port of the Ebiten game engine implementation to desktop using the Fyne GUI library. During the implementation I ran into 3 problems that I eventually solved. In this post I'll explain...

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Free Dutch postcodes CSV dataset

18 Apr 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

Web shops in the Netherlands need accurate address validation and completion. Kadaster is a Dutch government body that can provide the data that we need. Unfortunately they only provide the data in an almost unusable format (about 96GB of XML data), while we need a CSV...

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Creating 103mail.com - Update 1

12 Apr 2024 - by 'Maurits van der Schee'

I am building a free email service that respects privacy and prevents profiling on 103mail.com (see: the plan). In this post I explain how outgoing mail can be captured to be handled by a web hook, while internal email is delivered normally. The post assumes you are running Postfix...

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