Aos Dabbagh

I have an IoT button (SONOFF wireless push button) that when pressed I want to save the value in a database for later tracking.

In the previous post, we went over the networking setup.

A somewhat common theme I’ve noticed when working on various projects is the need for “one-off” re-usable scripts, these are typically more than a few lines of code.

Elixir is a functional language that runs on the Erlang VM.

When managing multiple dissimilar resources in Terraform, best practices dictate that you use the for_each meta-argument.

Over the last year, I’ve been learning Rust and diving into the ecosystem.

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In the previous post, we introduced the beginnings of the makings of a homelab and the hardware I’ll been using for it.

At its core, a homelab is nothing more than a set of computers networked together to provide an environment for experimentation.

Introduction As part of bringing up my personal infrastructure, I wanted a way to connect all my various boxes together and make them available to me from anywhere with an internet connection.

In some ways, 2019 has been a pivotal year in my growth.

Introduction Raspberry Pis are a great, low-risk introduction into Linux server and system administration.

Introduction For the past month or so I’ve spent time digging into dynamic programming (hereby abbreviated to DP).

When I first started programming seriously, I had no reference or guide for learning the soft and hard skills of software engineering.

Introduction When I first started learning algorithms and data structures, every resource I came across would mention Dijkstra’s algorithm in a sort of mystical, this-is-beyond-your-lowly-understanding manner.

Inspired by this fantastic article by fellow RC alum Peter Lyons, I’ve started a log to keep small notes about anything work-related.

Introduction I am currently working through Stanford’s algorithms course as part of “learning my fundamentals”, and one difficult and interesting topic that I’ve encountered is computing strongly connected components of a directed acyclic graph.

The Google Chrome team released a web scraping tool called Puppeteer in the not-so-distant past and I’ve been keening to play with it.

For the last few days, I have been working on setting up this blog site.