Archive
I switched from Windows to macOS years ago, and one of the things I never bothered to write up is how much calmer it made my computer. Windows always had this background buzz: “updates …
There are many discussions about the 30% fee Apple charges for the App Store. This fee is significant, and its benefits are not immediately clear. The complaints primarily come from large companies …
First 24 hours with Vision Pro. It feels like a generation 1 product. Similar to how I felt with Apple Watch or Macbook M1, when they just came out. A lot of small issues here and there, but overall …
It is incredible. You can actually play AAA games on your Mac that require DirectX12. Diablo IV is one of them. I am able to play Diablo IV on my maxed-out MacBook Pro 16" 2023 with M2 Max 96Gb …
I have been using Macbook Pro with M1 since the release of the MBP 13" M1 in 2020. And I am huge fan of the new Apple CPU - M1. Time to time I need to do some work on my 2019 16" MBP with …
I love building developer tools and utilities. And, I believe the reason is simple, because I am a developer, and those tools I make, I create first of all for myself. I worked for Microsoft before on …
I am excited to show my new application, ShellHistory. I can say that I started working on it four years ago when I published my little shell script dbhist. That script was convenient. It kept shell …
In the last three and a half months, I kept enjoying my MacBook Pro 13" M1, battery life, performance; everything is on the top level. But I also have an MBP 16 2019 that I have been using for …
I wrote two parts about how you can analyze the Access Logs from AWS Amplify. And it was a time to write a third part of the series. But after touching AWS QuickSight again (I use it for Outcold …
Really short and simple life-hack. Sometimes we have to pay for a few things with personal bank checks. Some banks charge you like $1 per one check, some banks give you 100 or 500 checks for free. And …
I have been using Alfred for a long time. If you have not heard about Alfred, the short description is a Spotlight on steroids. It can do a lot, but you have to write your own Workflows or find if …
There is some drama for you, my dear reader. It was a regular day. I was skiing with my skydiver friends when I received that email. At first, I thought this was one of those emails, you know, we can …
We discussed how to download AWS Amplify access logs and analyze them locally in the first part. In this part, we will configure a constant flow of access logs to S3 storage and create AWS Athena …
Let me start by letting you know, I love my Macbook Pro 13" M1! This laptop just finally adds the final touches of what I always expected from laptops: perfect battery life, silence, and no …
At the beginning of this year, I moved my blog to AWS Amplify and started to use Hugo as a static site generator. Often, I write several blog posts, but I usually don’t want to post them all at the …
AWS has a lot of great services, that is true. But sometimes integrations between them look more like a result of a hackathon project. One of those is the Access logs of the AWS Amplify websites. In …
Suppose you want to analyze web traffic properly. A lot of time, you want to know the GEO origin of the requests. It is possible to map IP addresses to Locations. You can use MaxMind GeoIP tables. …
Hello everyone! I hope I did not lose all my blog subscribers. It is more than 3 years last time I posted anything on my blog. A lot has changed since then. Let’s start from the end. I have …
After 10 days decided to return MacBook 2017. Got MacBook Pro 13" without TB instead. I thought that the main reason why I might want to return it would be performance. But after I run my …
If you are on Mac, I highly recommend trying the app I have built ShellHistory. I spend a lot of time in terminals, as most of you. I never been more productive than when I started to use dbhist. You …
Few weeks ago I decided to get myself a MacBook. Wanted compact, lightweight MacBook, and good battery life. I started to consider MacBook instead of MacBook Pro, but wanted to be sure that …
This blog post is written based on source code of Elasticsearch 5.5.0 and Lucene 6.6. If you are managing Elasticsearch cluster it is very important to understand what are the segments in the index, …
You know that monitoring is a hot topic this year when you see such variety of ways how you can monitor kubernetes cluster. If you are using Splunk - we provide solution to monitor and collect logs …
An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker. Funny story about how web developer implemented an easter egg for Mark Hamill. Container isolation gone wrong. Gallery of programmer interfaces. Very long …
Cron jobs is one of my favorite feature in Kubernetes. I use them for backups, data retention, clean ups and some monitoring as well. Cron Jobs feature is still in alpha. It is not enabled by default …
I spoke too soon. Actually I had a lot of problems in previous setup. To be honest - kubernetes certainly requires a lot of debugging to set it up correctly, but when you finally do that - it pays …
Docker is great. Managing Docker can be a pain. Docker-compose could not answer on all of the issues. So it always was wrapped with supporting shell scripts, similar to what I have built for …
Git 2.13 has been released. Conditional configuration is a big deal. You can now configure multiple github ssh keys and configure them based on the location of the repositories. CPU Utilization is …
CMake 3.8.0 available for download. With support of C++17. How We Built r/Place. Increment - On - Call - Issue 1 Spring 2017. Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch. AWS VPC Core Concepts in an …
Deep Dive: Payments To boldly suggest an overall plan for C++20. C++17 is done, so we need a plan for C++20. 802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks. Time A Programmer’s …
Four Column ASCII. A million requests per second with Python. GitLab.com Database Incident. From AST to Lossless Syntax Tree. Posix Has Become Outdated (2016). Software Engineering at Google. …
Be Careful with Python’s New-Style String Format. Writing An Interpreter In Go. Very simple and good manual for how to write your own interpreter, including how to parse, build AST and evaluate …
htop explained. Let’s stop copying C. Good discussion about C-like languages. Let’s Stop Bashing C. Answer on previous blogpost. Tracking Down a Freaky Python Memory Leak. I believe that article …
Docker in Production. A History of Failure. Definetely an interesting read. Author described some issues he had in past. I would say that it is pretty easy to collect similar set of issues for any …
Series: Unix as IDE. How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016 Ask HN: What’s your favorite tech talk?. DTrace for Linux 2016. Good news, DTrace like tooling is coming to Linux in near future. …
How a scammer stole 500$ from me and in the end begged me not to tell his parents. Interesting story how author tracked scammer and got money back. [Plex DVR](plex dvr plugin). I am big fan of …
On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted. Author of popular python module requests tells us a story about how his account was targeted for obvious reasons. Fast and Accurate Document Detection for …
Writing an editor in less than 1000 lines of code, just for fun. CppCon 2015: Greg Law " Give me 15 minutes & I’ll change your view of GDB". Good overview of GDB features. How I …
What are the new features in C++17?. Nice summary of all new features in C++17. A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system. UTF-8 Everywhere. Ropes: an Alternative …
VimGenius. This is probably the best how to get started with Vim tutorial. Very easy, but nothing interesting for experienced Vim users. Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment - 2016 Edition. …
One of my home servers is a Mac mini where I host OS X Server, SecuritySpy (highly recommend if you want to setup you own security system) and Plex. Few days ago I decided to do a very simple thing, …
How I hacked facebook… Animagraffs. Nice animated graphic about some basic things. VSCode This month I have spent a lot of time playing with Visual Studio Code. Not only using it as a main …
curl vs Wget. From the author of curl page describes the differences between curl and wget. The VimL Primer. I have bought this book a while ago, but did not have a time to read it. One thing which I …
PlatformIO is an open source ecosystem for IoT development. I still playing with the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. A lot of fun stuff you can do with them. If you want to develop Arduino projects you …
Provenance - great NES emulator for Apple TV 4th gen and iOS. I also bought SteelSeries Nimbus Wireless Gaming Controller for it. Love NES games. Dec 8: How to stop a DDoS attack. FastMail was under …
tig. “Tig is an ncurses-based text-mode interface for git.” Just install it and you will see. After you will install it you will never need any Git interfaces, just command line and tig. …
Or better topic “How to watch HD Channels with Comcsat with your own tuner”. I don’t watch a lot of TV, but sometimes I do: sport or TV shows . You know that it is almost impossible …
lnav. “An advanced log file viewer for the small-scale”. It is a great replacement for tail -f, less and anything else you use for analyzing logs. Very fast, very intuitive, well …
miller. Great open source tool to work with CSV files. “Miller is like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV.” jq. The same purpose tool as miller, but for JSON. …
When you perform a lot of sequential requests to the same HTTP server it is good to check that your HTTP client is reusing connections if server supports that. If you don’t know what is the …
In my previous post I showed you how I keep all my scripts and dotfiles in sync between my computers using git. Also I suggested to use own private git repository for security reasons, as it easier to …
If you are working in terminal - one of the important things is to keep your scripts and dotfiles in the order. Basically, you should consider them as one of your regular pet/side projects, and as any …
It is great that GitLab container has backup to S3 out of the box, but none of the other containers I use have that. I tried to find simple solution, which would allow me to map data volume container, …
For now, every month I will try to keep posting digest with the links to all blog posts / books / interesting materials, which I have found very useful or maybe just interesting for myself. LLVM for …
Sad but true: GitHub Pages still does not support HTTPS for custom domains (see Add HTTPS support to Github Pages - this is not an official bug tracking for GitHub Pages). You basically have just two …
UPDATE: Take a look on our applications for monitoring Docker and Kubernetes https://www.outcoldsolutions.com I’m currently working at Splunk, but this is my personal blog. I have some knowledge …
I already told you that I use docker at home to run GitLab and Netatalk. Every month my list of containers which I host on my home server is growing for various reasons. Sometimes I just want to use …
In October 2014 I wrote a blog post about how to setup Open VPN at home to have access to home server and all services from outside. This setup worked fine for me for a last year, but there were few …
In last month I played a little with golang. Want to share my experience with you. I’m not an expert in golang. I did not like Platform is still on it’s early stage Issues with Garbage …
It is a time to say good bye to outcoldplayer. Google finally deprecated ClientLogin API (see ClientLogin for Installed Applications) on May 27, 2015. After this date all calls to the ClientLogin …
Yeah, I know. Docker is everywhere. I have read so many articles about it in last few years, but have not used it for anything, have not even tried to run any docker hosts or containers. Why? Just did …
Few days ago I decided that I want to have my local DNS server, becase I want to have more than one DNS name for the same server (hosting multiple websites / services on the same server and have …
Dynamic DNS. OpenVPN. AFP Server (for OS X). SMB server (for Windows and Linux). Reliability (Backups). Reliability (Backups) You probably know that it is important to backup data from your …
Dynamic DNS. OpenVPN. AFP Server (for OS X). SMB server (for Windows and Linux). Reliability (Backups). In Part 3 we have set up AFP file share for Apple devices, in this part we will configure file …
Dynamic DNS. OpenVPN. AFP Server (for OS X). SMB server (for Windows and Linux). Reliability (Backups). NOTE: I highly recommend to take a look on how to install netatalk with Docker in this article …
Dynamic DNS. OpenVPN. AFP Server (for OS X). SMB server (for Windows and Linux). Reliability (Backups). In part 1 we configured DNS name for our home server, which we can use outside of our network …
Recently I spent some time with my old Desktop PC to configure it as my home server: OpenVPN, File Share, TimeMachine Server, VMware Server with several Windows Machines (it is old Desktop, but still …
In the last year folks asked me several times about Linux, about how to learn it after Windows. I think one of the reasons why I got this question was that one year ago I was 100% Windows user with …
You know what is pedometer, right? And you probably heard about fitbit. Automatic is a gadget, which is basically “fitbit” for your car. I bought mine Automatic 10 weeks ago. These 10 …
I don’t do a lot of development on Windows these days, but when I do I miss many things which I really like on OS X. One of them is a good package manager like Homebrew. Yes, I know about …
I don’t know about you, but I have a lot private Git repositories. Most of these repositories are dead or almost dead projects. But I still want to keep them, because some of them can have good …
In time when git is a king of all source control systems we all still need to use other source control systems for various reasons. In my case this system is perforce. First of all I would just say …
Windows 8 is still young platform. There are a lot of talks going on about if Windows 8/8.1 is successful or not. The main questions for users are a) why Windows does not have all applications they …
If you know one please tell me. For the last couple of months I was trying various options for doing diffing and merging on Mac with git and perforce. Perforce itself has pretty good merging tool …
For the last 10 years I used various mail providers: mail.ru, Google Mail, Outlook (previously Live Mail), Office 365. They all have good and bad parts, but recently I made my decision to move from …
I’m new in Macs. I have been using it only for 6 months. Not a long time, especially comparing to how much I spent in Windows. In these 6 months mostly I was working with JavaScript and Python, …
I finally did it. I found some time to get rid of my old custom-made ASP.NET blog and move all my content to static web site powered by Jekyll. If I remember it right this is my third move. I started …
Strange that Sublime Text documentation does not include manual about how to make subl command available on Windows in command line environment. One of the reasons can be that Sublime Text does not …
Month ago I started to work in Splunk. I joined small team in Seattle, which is working on Developer Frameworks for Splunk. If you've never seen Splunk before I highly recommend you to do this right …
I have been using Nexus 5 for about a week, I think that this is enough to make some conclusions and share my experience with you. At first I just want to say that this device is awesome for my needs. …
If you are looking for an article with detailed comparison of these three operating systems you are in wrong place. I don't have that. I just want to share with you some experience I had with all …
Two weeks ago I participated in Seattle GDG Dev Fest 2013, where I started to work on Bookmarks extension for Chrome Browser. I had a very simple idea to build extension, which allows users to do …
Almost year ago we published IntelliCommand extension on Visual Studio Gallery. This extension helps you to learn shortcut keys in Visual Studio (check screenshots on Gallery site). IntelliCommand was …
There are many different ways to store all your passwords in one place and synchronize them between devices. The easiest way probably is to store them in browser. For example, Internet Explorer on …
Couple days ago I received Lenovo Yoga 11S, this laptop is not for me, but while I have it on my hands, just want to share some thoughts about it. I have the cheapest configuration with Core i3 …
The most important thing which I learned after I moved to USA – always read License Agreements ;) New MSDN Azure subscription offer is awesome for you if you are developing a lot on Azure and you …
I love to use Moq library, it is the best mocking framework for me. Visual Studio provides Fakes framework, but my opinion is that it is for slightly different issues. Fakes is a framework for making …
I enjoy doing anything by myself instead of using well know frameworks. I am not saying that I am using only my own frameworks. It just gives me more knowledge about how these frameworks doing their …
How many shortcut keys you know in Visual Studio? Do you want to know all of them? I know how you can learn them very easy. I'd like to introduce you a cool extension for Visual Studio 2010/2012 which …
It was a year and half when last time I updated my web site. Sadly this is just one project I have where I can have some experience with web development. And because I really missed it, so I've put …
Computer Software can have bugs and some of these bugs are Memory Leaks. It is usual case that if your software is a Multi-Document application you need to pay more attention on memory leaks. The main …
When developers use task from namespace Microsoft.Phone.Tasks they can do two mistakes: a) do not put some logic about that application can go to the tombstone mode, it is when phone will save all …
I’ve submitted my first application for Windows Phone! It is very simple app. Marketplace has a good amount of similar apps: Planning Poker. Anyway, I’ve wrote couple own behaviors for TextBox and …
Silverlight 4 in Action (Manning, Pete Brown) – this is second book, which I read about Silverlight. First was Pro Silverlight 3 in C# (Apress, Matthew MacDonald), which helped me when I was need to …
First time when I familiarized with unit testing was 5 or 6 years ago. It was start of my developing career. I remember that somebody told me about code coverage. At that time I didn’t write any Unit …
At previous my blog post I wrote about how to implement validation with DataAnnotations. I this part of my article I will describe interfaces IDataErrorInfoand INotifyDataErrorInfo. I recommend you to …
Silverlight 4 has some new ways for validate input values (some new approaches to implement validation in your application). First approach is DataAnnotation. In this case you should describe …
I got two new books from O’Reilly about Html 5 and JavaScript (ECMAScript 5): Mark Pilgrim - Html 5: Up and Running Shelley Powers – JavaScript Cookbook Both of these books are published by O’Reilly. …
I had read about Code Contracts long time ago, but I didn’t see a reason to use contract instead of simple tests and argument's check with Exception's throws. Only now I’m trying to use them at real …
Couple days ago I got a question about how to register hotkey in Windows for WPF application. I remembered that one year ago I was solving the same problem in WinForms application, I was registering …
Couple of weeks ago I wrote about my small utility Config Transformation Tool, which I wrote with base of web.config transformation task. In those moments I was thinking about opportunity to pass …
Couple of weeks ago I got a paper copy of book Pablo Cibraro, Kurt Claeys, Fabio Cozzolino, Johann Grabner - Professional WCF 4: Windows Communication Foundation with .NET 4. This book has not a lot …
Passing array/list/set to stored procedure is fairly common task when you are working with Databases. You can meet this when you want to filter some collection. Other case – it can be an import into …
XDT Transformation is a new feature of ASP.NET 4.0 named Web.Config Transformation. Scott Guthrie: "In most real-world deployment scenarios, the web.config file you use for development is …
I want to make public one small project on CodePlex. Everybody knows that you can work with CodePlex like with TFS client and with SVN client as well. But really I can’t work with it from SVN client. …
At our product we have a client Silverlight part and server-code part, which contains a lot of WCF methods. We don’t use ASP.NET Compatible mode, because we want to leave an opportunity to deploy …
As you know MS SQL Server Express Edition hasn’t Agent Service, which can be used to schedule daily backups or other periodic administrative tasks. But you can use for this standard Windows Schedule …
Just became a lucky owner of this book C# IN A NUTSHELL 4th edition. This is a fourth edition of this book’s series. I saw previous third edition of this book, we presented it on one of our events at …
Few days ago I have an experience with setting CCNet build server for continuous integration environment. What is it continuous integration and why you need to know it you can learn from many …
Data export from DataGrid to Excel is very common task, and it can be solved with different ways, and chosen way depend on kind of app which you are design. If you are developing app for enterprise, …
In Windows 7, I really liked an opportunity to change the position of the windows by pressing hotkeys Win + (Left | Right | Up | Bottom): Win + Left - window attached to the left side Win + Right - …
When you develop web application you should know that client PCs can be located anywhere on earth. Even if you develop app just for your country users you should remember it (in Russia now we have 9 …
Recently I read good Russian post with many interesting extensions methods after then I remembered that I too have one good extension method “Safely type convert”. Idea of this method I got at last …
I should say that I’m fan of regular expressions. Whenever I see the problem, which I can solve with Regex, I felt a burning desire to do it and going to write new test for new regex. Previously I had …
Recently Konstantin Kishinsky (Microsoft Russia) presented in his blog Deep Zoom Composer 1.0 (in russian), which everyone can download from Microsoft site. What is it and how it works - you can find …
Introduction In Windows 7, I really liked an opportunity to change the position of the windows by pressing hotkeys Win + (Left | Right | Up | Bottom): Win + Left - window attached to the left side Win …
