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Wayback Machine Archive Today

A personal update on day 230 of the year.

Cerita santai eyeball komuniti HAM-JERANTUT di Kampung Jeram Landak, Kuala Lipis, Pahang — komuniti radio amatur yang aktif di Zello selepas band 2M semakin lesu.

A Dracula-inspired Hugo theme built with TailwindCSS v4 and DaisyUI v5 — portfolio, reading list, QSO log, IndieWeb support and Pagefind search.

Bookmark: an argument that Django can do microservices just fine — module boundaries, isolation, containerization and DRF-based communication.

Panduan lengkap proses permohonan callsign gateway radio amatur Malaysia dengan SKMM, termasuk borang RSAD/AAP-F07 dan carta alir permohonan.

Bookmark: NSSM, the Non-Sucking Service Manager for running any program as a Windows service.

Like: practical techniques for optimising ASP.NET Core APIs to reduce latency, CPU usage and memory allocations.

Reply about tracking planes with a Raspberry Pi and an SDR running dump1090.

Bookmark: the four stages of a startup CTO — coder, manager, strategist and leader.

Bookmark: how to create a Django application using Cookiecutter, with archive mirrors.

Repost: the seven things a thesis examiner checks before reading a full thesis, starting with the reference list.

Ulasan buku ‘Road to PHD’ — 55 muka surat yang lebih menjurus kepada motivasi Islamik berbanding pengalaman sebenar mendapatkan PhD.

The Django mailing list on Google Groups is shutting down in favour of a web-based forum — reflections on the end of an era for the community.

Bookmark: strategies for scaling Spring Boot to millions of requests — Tomcat and Jetty tuning, maxThreads and load testing.

Bookmark: using Java task executors and thread pools in Spring Boot for resilient, scalable concurrency.

Part 2 of configuring Spring Boot with multiple datasources — the PostgreSQL and MSSQL configuration classes, @ConfigurationProperties and @Primary bean wiring.

Part 1 of configuring Spring Boot with multiple datasources — connecting an existing MSSQL database and a new PostgreSQL database using JDBC and JPA.

Unpublishing my old blogs at robbinespu.gitlab.io and robbinespu.github.io, two to three years after moving to my own domain.

Check-in at Jauhar Medical Clinic, Gelang Patah after a week of fever and diarrhea, and the awkwardness of taking sick leave while working for a Singapore company from Malaysia.

PowerPing, an advanced open source Windows ping utility that graphs and scans — plus the CMD-only caveat you should know about.

A repost of the DX Code of Conduct for amateur radio operators — listen before calling, and the rest of the numbered rules.

Bookmark: Adam Johnson’s trick for adding circular imports for Python type hints without triggering ImportError.

Bookmark: a beginner-friendly guide to Java Records and when to use them for concise data-centric classes.

Ulasan buku ‘Artecationista: Jerman, Kami Datang!’

Ulasan buku ‘Cashflow untuk Lelaki’ oleh Shamsudin Kadir — pengurusan wang dan bajet untuk lelaki.

Catatan membayar zakat fitrah 1445H di Singapura — 5 SGD seorang untuk sekeluarga, dan kenapa saya membayar di sana.

Review of ‘The HP Way’ by David Packard — how Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard (ham callsign 9DRV) built Hewlett-Packard.

QSO log from the ROIPMARS Ramadhan sahur net over Zello with 9W2AYP as net controller, including the eQSL card designed by 9W2LGX.

Review of ‘Learn Microservices with Spring Boot 3’ by Moises Macero Garcia and Tarun Telang — event-driven architecture, cloud-native patterns and containerization.

Ulasan buku ‘Bergaji dan Pokai’ oleh Suraya Zainudin — panduan realistik pengurusan kewangan untuk pekerja bergaji di Malaysia.

Reply on the Bulma v1 issue thread — looking forward to dark mode, smart grid, skeleton loader and automatic colour palettes.

Fixing the Scoop update error ‘schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed’ on Windows by switching Git from Windows Secure Channel to OpenSSL.

Bookmark: Bunty Raghani’s guide to updating Maven dependencies effortlessly and keeping a Spring Boot project up to date.

A simple PowerShell script that batch converts M4A audio files to MP3 with FFMPEG, after a commercial converter failed to do the job.

Hebahan dan kaedah check-in bagi Net Mingguan RPK (Rakan PTT Kita) melalui Zello dan ROIP pada 16 Disember 2023.

Like: Darek Kay’s roundup of the various ways to add comments to a static site.

Sesi eyeball bersama 9W2JFC dan 9W2OBP di Simpang Renggam pada 13 November 2023, selepas menerima kad keahlian JOSRAC (KELKOM) M.10187.

Akhirnya mendaftar sebagai ahli ROIPMARS, Persatuan Peminat Radio Komunikasi (RoIP) Malaysia, selepas lama memendam hasrat sejak zaman SWL.

Bookmark: Vogella’s tutorial on using Eclipse BIRT to build reports and charts from plain Java objects (POJOs).

Like: an explanation of the Abstract Factory creational design pattern and how it differs from the simple Factory pattern.

Bookmark: Fernando Borretti’s ‘Test Against Reality’ on why mocks drift from the systems they stand in for.

Adding IndieWeb check-in support to this site with a Mapbox map and manually defined longitude and latitude, written while down with a fever.

Webmention is working again — webmention.app is open source, so you can self-host Remy’s CLI if the hosted service goes down.

Bookmark: a beginner-friendly Spring Boot walkthrough covering project setup and Lombok.

Like: using QueryDSL for type-safe and dynamic queries in JPA, as an alternative to plain JPQL.

My webmention GitHub Action keeps failing — tracing the problem back to webmention.app and the WWW-less URL issue.

Announcing my new OpenPGP key — moving away from Keybase (now owned by Zoom) back to managing keys with a local OpenPGP manager.

Like: a SOTA antenna setup shared by K7WXW on Mastodon.

Reply to Faizal R — congratulations on the successful Konvensyen Fiqh Perubatan Kebangsaan 2023.