JOURNAL.ROBBI.MY

Bookmark: a comparison of Spring Boot 2 and Spring Boot 3, including JDK requirements.

Like: Automattic acquires the ActivityPub plugin so WordPress blogs can join the Fediverse.

Reply to Robb Knight’s webmention tutorial — a good setup guide, especially for those of us wrestling with static site generators.

Bookmark: a practical Jackson reference for Spring Boot — ObjectMapper, serialization, deserialization and the common annotations.

Bookmark: implementing retry logic in Spring Boot applications with spring-retry.

Bookmark: a Spring Boot quick start guide covering Initializr, Maven POM setup and packaging.

Bookmark: controlling date and timestamp formatting with Jackson in Spring Boot.

Bookmark: unit testing in Spring Boot with JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ, Hamcrest, JSONassert and JSONPath.

Bookmark: the difference between Spring @Autowired and Jakarta @Resource injection annotations.

Bookmark: monitoring a Spring Boot application with Grafana.

Bookmark: implementing file download with gzip over HTTP in Spring Boot.

Bookmark: DJ0IP’s reference on wire beam antenna types — delta loop, X-beam, Moxon, spider quad, hex and Yagi.

Bookmark: DJ0IP’s guide to building a 160m inverted L antenna, with an archive mirror.

Taking part in the Malaysian uSDX Owner DX Weekend 2023, a portable QRP outing event for ham operators held from 28 to 30 July 2023.

Dua bulan selepas menerima lesen AA, callsign 9W2NSP akhirnya muncul dalam daftar rasmi SKMM — dan profil QRZ.com saya turut didaftarkan.

Ways to support this blog if an article helped you — PayPal, Liberapay, Ko-fi, or cryptocurrency donations.

RSVP for a Microsoft meetup on building the optimum environment for SQL Server.

RSVP for the PyCon Malaysia and Korea virtual meetup covering Anvil, Streamlit and Dash.

How to reach Robbi Nespu — plaintext email, social networks, or encrypted mail using PGP key 0x76FB0832233CE1F4.

My preferred minimal Django logging configuration in Python, formatted for easy tracing — inspired by years of using log4j in Java.

A one-line JavaScript bookmarklet that beautifies and formats JSON in the browser — handy when your company blocks browser add-ons.

Bookmark: Vianney Faivre’s ‘Get Shit Done’ — a practical take on goals, rewards, focus and effort, with archive mirrors.

A small Python script that moves the mouse and presses keys at random intervals to keep a screen awake while monitoring logs.

Selepas hampir sebulan menunggu SKMM, akhirnya menerima callsign radio amatur 9W2NSP (Nine Whiskey Two November Sierra Papa).

Kekecewaan dengan proses permohonan callsign dan Sijil Penguntukan Radas (AA) SKMM yang perlahan dan masih manual walaupun bayaran sudah dibuat.

Alhamdulillah, lulus Peperiksaan Radio Amatur secara atas talian (ORAE) kelas B selepas 15 tahun menangguh untuk mengambil lesen radio amatur.

Bookmark: Stanley Seow’s answer sheet for the MCMC Class A amateur radio exam question bank under the new Malaysian syllabus.

Disappointed by the Boxcryptor and Dropbox deal that ended free personal encryption, and looking at Cryptomator as a replacement.

Reply to starrwulfe — yes, I intend to open source the project once the UI, backend and documentation are ready.

Reply to petersmith.org — how I use GitLab CI/CD to automatically submit my URLs to the Wayback Machine during the Hugo build.

Like: Peter Smith’s posts-by-month sparkline — I love the idea of collecting data from your own writing and displaying the statistics back on your site.

Two weeks into building my own Hugo theme, webmention support is now roughly 80% implemented.

Test bookmark post used to verify webmention and IndieWeb bookmark markup on this Hugo theme.

Kembali menulis selepas lama bersepi — blog baharu di atas domain sendiri dengan tema Hugo yang dibina dari awal, lengkap dengan sokongan IndieWeb dan Webmention.

The JOTA 2022 poster designed for the JOSRAC Batu Pahat amateur radio club (9M4CPJ) in Johor, Malaysia.

Report and poster from the JOTA 2021 Jamboree On The Air activity run by JOSRAC amateur radio club (9M4CPJ) in Batu Pahat, Johor.

Hugo’s getJSON function now accepts custom HTTP headers, so you can call APIs that require Authorization Bearer or OAuth tokens — with a working shortcode example.

Cawbird, the GTK Twitter client for Linux that revived the discontinued Corebird project, and how to install it on Debian, Fedora and openSUSE.

A custom Hugo shortcode that renders chat-style conversation dialog bubbles in blog posts, inspired by Xe Iaso’s website.

Why and how to periodically delete your old posts from centralised social media, and why owning your content on your own site matters.

Quote: arguing you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say — Edward Snowden.

Why I removed Disqus and then Utterances from this blog, and switched to plain email and webmention for comments.

The story behind my name — Robbi Nespu, a combination of two Arabic words meaning ‘God’ and ‘Half’, and how to pronounce it.

Digging into the Ubuntu chromium-browser DEB package to show it is only a wrapper that silently installs the snap version instead.

How to control, configure and disable Ubuntu snap packages from the command line, plus a rant about Canonical pushing snaps on users.

Stop blaming a year for your problems — 2020 and 2021 are just arbitrary numbers on a calendar, and nothing guarantees the next one is better.

Rendering math formulas in Hugo with KaTeX and mmark — a faster alternative to MathJax, wired up through a partial layout and CDN.

Peringatan untuk ringankan tulang membantu saudara dan rakan, disertakan hadis riwayat Imam Muslim tentang mempermudahkan kesusahan orang lain.

Bahagian 4: salinan penuh blog allahyarham Prof Dr Hj Sazali (nenez9595.blogspot.com) berjaya diarkibkan dan diterbitkan semula.

Bahagian 3: masalah had saiz fail GitHub semasa memuat naik salinan penuh blog Nenez9595 dari VPS.