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Using generators for working with paginated APIs - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Using generators for working with paginated APIs In this post, I will examine a solid use case for JavaScript async generat…

Making DeaDBeeF work with Sway window manager - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Making DeaDBeeF work with Sway window manager My fresh install of Debian 13 came with Wayland enabled which meant I had to swi…

Validating Incoming Data Using Zod and TypeScript - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Validating Incoming Data Using Zod and TypeScript When handling any sort if incoming data it is important to validate that…

Building low-boilerplate backend services in Node.js - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Building low-boilerplate backend services in Node.js As a backend developer, I have repeatedly found myself in the posi…

Github Actions Workflow to Publish NPM Packages From A Monorepo - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Github Actions Workflow to Publish NPM Packages From A Monorepo In a scenario where a team of developers are…

Node.js "for of", "forEach", "map" and "reduce" Overhead - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Node.js "for of", "forEach", "map" and "reduce" Overhead This post compares the performance of the JavaScript for o…

Performance test of async / await in Node.js 8 LTS - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Performance test of async / await in Node.js 8 LTS The recently released Node.js 8 LTS comes with async / await support,…

Setting Up a Private NPM Registry - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Setting Up a Private NPM Registry While open source is great, sometimes it is not possible to make your code public and publish it to the…

Bootstrap 4 Page Header - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Bootstrap 4 Page Header For reasons that don't make much sense, Bootstrap v4 removed the useful .page-header class.

Example Socket.IO client and server - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Example Socket.IO client and server Here is a basic example of a WebSocket client and server using the popular Socket.IO framework.

I'm currently working on some slides for JavaScript / Node.js training I will be running for our company.

Disabling BIND9 IPv6 on Debian 8.0 / Ubuntu LTS 16.04 - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Disabling BIND9 IPv6 on Debian 8.0 / Ubuntu LTS 16.04 If you use BIND and your system is not configured to use IPv6 th…

Recently I spent some time working with streams of binary data in Node.js.

This post walks through building a simple Node.js log server that uses ZeroMQ to accept messages.

Notes in building the deadbeef player on Debian - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Notes in building the deadbeef player on Debian This is mainly a reminder for myself if I ever need to re-build the deadbeef…

This document covers the process of setting up Nginx and PHP-FPM, with the latter running in chroot mode.

I'm working on an interesting project that required the use of a TCP proxy.

I have recently implemented greylisting on my email servers in order to reduce the amount of spam that has to be processed by my MailScanner content filtering server (and consequently reduce the load on that server).

Kvass is an awesome drink that is widely consumed in Russia and a lot of people there make it at home.

Compile LESS CSS and Markdown files with Make - George's Homepage George's Homepage Posts Tools Open Source Contact Shaolin Arts Compile LESS CSS and Markdown files with Make Here is a simple example Makefile to automatically compile any changed LESS CSS,…