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Free spell checking
You probably know about Grammarly and other web browser add-ons that basically act as fancier spell checkers.They’re expensive, a bit opaque, and you can’t really integrate them into whatever you want. Well today, I’ll talk about LanguageTool. Despite offering full-blown plans, what is little known is that you can use it locally and host your…
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Making your own web corner
So, you’ve finally bought yourself a domain (or thinking about it), got a server at home, and now you want to host your own corner of the web? Great! Allow me to be your guide through this journey. Pre-requisites You’ll need a bunch of stuff for this tutorial, including: A domain Your domain will be…
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Resostats outage postmortem
Today, from approximately 16:30 UTC to 17:45 UTC, the Resostats Dashboard which provides various public metrics on Resonite was offline. Background Routine maintenance was being done on the machine hosting Resostats, namely updating the packages, containers, cleaning up some debugging tools.Configuration changes were committed to try and have the TSDB sync faster to the S3…
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My Signal config & switching to it
A few months ago, I started using Signal again. The messenger evolved quite a lot since I last used it, for instance, usernames weren’t even a thing back then, and this is mainly what drove me out of the platform. But now that we have them, I feel a bit safer using it, knowing people…
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Making Bread
I recently got myself a bread maker. While I used to make the bread myself, the bread maker makes it even easier given I can just throw the ingredients in and forget about it. Since I got it, that poor thing has been running at least once a day (yes, I eat a lot of…
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Using the new GitHub ARM runners
Just yesterday at the time of writing, GitHub (finally) released their public ARM runners for Open-Source projects. This means you can now build ARM programs natively on Linux without having to fiddle with weird cross-compilation. One way to achieve that is through a Matrix. Considering the following workflow to build, then upload an artifact (taken…
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Building .NET using GitLab CI/CD
As I often mention, I use .NET a lot in general, as it’s fairly easy to use, has a huge ecosystem, and has evolved really positively in the past years (long gone are the days of Mono :D). Another component of this is that .NET projects are incredibly easy to build and publish using GitLab…
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The state of IPv6 in Resonite
Given sessions in Resonite are hosted by the players themselves, IPv6 is very useful in this context as there are no needs to battle with CGNAT or other network shenanigans and restrictions ISPs might put in place to save up on IP space. As full native IPv6 support is currently being worked on (see GH-143…
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The making of the Resonite sessions Discord bot
If you are a Resonite player and are in the Discord guild, you might be familiar with the #active-sessions channel, in which a bot displays the 10 most popular sessions on Resonite as well as some stats. What you might not know, is that I’m the author of this bot, that I originally started as…