Articles posted on 2025

Switching to Giscus

So since last year I have been using utterances to add comments to my BLOG. After reading this post from Max Brenner, I decided to switch to giscus. Giscus is a comments system powered by GitHub Discussions. It lets visitors leave comments and reactions on your website via GitHub! I agree with the comments from Mr. Brenner: ...

Brython

Brython (Browser Python) is an implementation of Python 3 running in the browser, with an interface to the DOM elements and events. In a way it is similar to pyjs, however, looks like development has stalled. Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web. As such, it is a Python 3 implementation (you can take it for a test drive through a web console), adapted to the HTML5 environment, that is to say with an interface to the DOM objects and events. ...

Using 7z for benchmarks

Syntax LZMA benchmark details LZMA benchmark in multithreading mode 7-Zip benchmark Examples ...

3D Prints

The other day, the 3D model I created back in 2016 finally broke. So, as such I created an updated model: For this I am using the same service from my 3D Printing updates ...

Filesystem discard

Now with the prevalence of SSD's for storage, it is important to make sure that the DISCARD operation is used. This is specially true as this can increase the lifetime of your flash storage by reducing the need to re-map blocks by simply marking them as freed. ...

DRBD Preload

This is a continuation to VM disk replication. One of the steps needed for VM disk replication is the need to pre-load the replicated volume. For the project I wrote, we had two mechanisms: ...

Alpine Boot

This is a quick note. In Alpine linux you can run start-up scripts by enabling the local service: rc-update add local default When this is enabled, it will run all executable scripts that end with .start on start-up and scripts that end with .stop on shutdown. ...

NEW YEAR 2025

This year this Blog would have been up and running for 12 years! Happy new year sticker created by Icon home - Flaticon ...