How to monitor Network Traffic on Linux
There is a fantastic tool to see and monitor Bandwidth and Network Traffic on Linux.
It’s called bmon and it works out of the box.
Technical Articles
In-depth guides, insights, and best practices for modern software engineering
How to Merge Javascript Objects
A Javascript Object – now just called JSON – is a collection of values and properties stored as a map.
How would you merge two or more Javascript …
Read Article →When to use Pip3 instead of Pip in Python
If you have multiple versions of Python installed on a system, such as both Python 2.7 and Python 3.6+. Then pip will often refer to the Python2 bin, …
How to use Screen on Linux
Screen on Linux is a popular command-line program that lets you multiplex between interactive shells.
What that means is, you can use screen to save …
Transfer a domain from Namecheap
Namecheap is a pretty good registrar. As its name says, yes, it is usually pretty cheap. I would also like to point out that I personally have nothing …
Read Article →How to Package a Python App using Nuitka
Learn how to package a Python app in this tutorial.
For the most part, once you’ve written your Python code, you simply deploy it to a server, …
Read Article →Introduction to NPM
What is NPM?
NPM stands for Node Package Manager, and is the default way to extend your Node applications.
There are an absolute ton of packages …
Read Article →How to create a Symbolic Link on Linux / Mac
A symbolic link – or often just sym-link – is a pointer or shortcut to where the actual file lives on a filesystem. What does it take to create a …
Non-interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt)
If you have ever been in the annoying situation where you had to run git clone from a server that you did not have interactive access to, such as a …
When your Python code is much faster with PyPy
Python is a very powerful language, there are so many libraries available for it.
However, many developers will complain about its speed by comparison …
Read Article →What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Platform Engineering is something that grew out of a mix of what software developers and sysadmins had been doing for years.
The only real difference …
Read Article →Introduction to PIP – Python Package Manager
Python comes with a fully equipped package manager called PIP – which stands for the Python Package Manager.
PIP gives your python applications access …
Read Article →How to build a website quickly using PHP
PHP is a powerful scripting language created for the web.
It has come a long way since it’s initial inception in 1994.
It was originally created to …
Read Article →How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript
I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that in Javascript, there are really only two ways to do a proper search and replace.
Firstly, we need …
Read Article →How to exit Vim
If only I had a dollar for every time I saw someone sitting at their computer, trying for the life of them to exit vim
Read Article →To save and exit; press …
How to Setup and Use the Python Virtual Environment
Python is a fantastic language that continues to help so many businesses and individuals. It offers readable syntax to get started, yet extensive …
Read Article →Introducing the Hetzner Cloud
I could honestly not tell you how many hosting providers I’ve tried over the past 15 years. Probably more than 30, 40… Easily!
Today I would …
Read Article →Multiprocessing in Python3
import multiprocessing
def runner(k):
print(k)
processes = []
for i in range(10):
p = multiprocessing.Process(target=runner, args=(i,)) …How to Install MongoDB on Mac
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac.
For ages you were able to simply do:
brew install mongodb, but more recently, that has stopped …
The Best Note Taking Apps
We’re all using a Note Taking App these days, they’re incredibly useful and come jam packed with loads of features. But which ones shine …
Read Article →How to Delete large amount of files in directory
So you have clearly got a very large amount of files!
If you issue the conventional rm -rf * within the directory, you will get an error -bash: …
How to Merge multiple files, removing duplicate values
If you have multiple files and you want to remove duplicate values from, while creating a single file.
File1 (one.txt):
123
123
234
345
File2 …
Read Article →Unable to delete an AWS Internet Gateway
So you need to delete an AWS Internet Gateway, sounds good.
You navigate to the VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) dashboard and go to Internet Gateways. …
Read Article →How Distributed Applications Work
Distributed Applications come in a wide range of sizes, usages and resource availabilities.
What is a Distributed Application?
A perfect example of a …
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