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Did consumers lose against Apple Pay?

Couple nights ago, I had to spend a serious amount of hours into clicking buttons on my Android devices and an iPhone. It was frustrating enough that my visiting family relatives were so annoyed that I also started to care less about doing laundry but writing this rant on my phone. This story starts because [ ]

Moving from Docker to Podman for local development

Previously, I wrote a short article about how I work without docker-compose. While it s somewhat crucial software for my workload, I realized I could achieve the basic functionality with less code in my environment. The old article only used a PostgreSQL container in the system, which was fairly boring. Now that I ve been using more [ ]

Reducing the amount of HN intake this year

It s been three months, I didn t use Hacker News daily and in this post, you will find my reasoning and also my experience during that process. I need to warn that this experimentation is not about getting rid of one of the influential social media/news outlet for a tech person. I am not fan of [ ]

ThinkStation S30 Upgrades in 2022

It s been a while since I didn t use my ThinkStation S30. You might already know that I already mentioned it in an [article]. It was sitting in the storage for about 2 years and now I am here to upgrade some pieces on it. I particularly like this computer because it s components are cheap and [ ]

Downgrade PostgreSQL 12 to 11

I have been using Heroku for about 2 years for Miniflux RSS reader. It has been working with no issue, and I was a happy Heroku user. Recently we were shocked by the moves of Salesforce for it s product, Heroku about series of problems about it s security and how they manage the situation outside of [ ]

A week with unsupported Android device

After losing my Android device during a bike ride, I needed to have my SIM card back and have a running cell phone, so that people can reach me. I didn t have time to wait for a smartphone to be delivered in 3 days, so I found a smartphone in my used devices box. It [ ]

Migrating to Hugo

This isn t the first blog post you ll see about static site generators on the web. I was a huge fan of Jekyll, but after migrating away from GitHub Pages, I found no advantages other than it being a database-less writing platform. I still recommend Jekyll to people with less experience writing online, since it requires [ ]

Tragedy of HP ProLiant DL380 G5

We bought a second-hand DL380 G5 to run our master Citrix XenServer, and it works without any problem. Except for the latest version of firmware updates… Tragedy (from the Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences. Tragedy I am 20 years [ ]

Automated CentOS Installation with Anaconda

Red Hat-like distributions offer remote installation script that is called Kickstart. This script/configuration is managed by Anaconda software which in this tutorial I will be showing how to achieve a remote installation.