Testing WDQS Blazegraph data load performance
Toward the end of 2020 I spent some time blackbox testing data load times for WDQS and Blazegraph to try and find out which possible setting tweaks might make things faster. I didn’t come to any major conclusions as part of this effort but will write up the approach and data nonetheless incase it is…
PHP 7 composer docker image digest
At some point in the last weeks the composer docker image that can be found on docker hub switched from PHP7 to PHP8. Some projects, such as wikibase-docker, still require PHP7 for installation. It looks like the composer image is not going to be providing an additional tag using a pre PHP 8 version, thus…
Go Docker SDK, Raw Terminal Ctrl+C handling
I spent my weekend in working on a new project called dockerit. It’s a simple wrapper around Docker written in Go and making use of the Docker SDK. One of the biggest sticking points for me, being fairly new with the Golang world, was trying to pass stdin stdout and stderr between the container and…
Simple Go defer code example
In Go, a defer statement will execute a function call just before the function it is called from returns. I found that most of the examples of a Go defer call online seemed to do complicated things with numbers. So here is a nice simple example with just text output. Example You can run this…
My Git Aliases
Overtime key presses really add up, especially when you use certain tools all throughout the day. Here are the bash and git aliases that I use for git to avoid doing some of these keypresses. I’m not sure how many times a day I use these shortcuts, or how many key presses I skip, but…
Test if docker volume mounts are working
If you need some quick commands to paste to check if your docker volume mounting is working correctly here you go! Commands below!
Google outage article by The Express ‘This could be 9/11 of hacks’
I’m here after a certain Google outage lead to at least 1 sensational headline misleading some people that contact me asking for an opinion. I was aware of the outage at the time as I was trying to use Google products. The article headline that I dive into below just made me laugh at the…
Auto reloading pi kiosk script from Github
While at Newspeak House in 2020 I found myself wanting to change how the screens dotted around the place worked. A little bit of context is needed here. These screens were dotted around the communal areas, each attached to as raspberry pi, and each running a kiosk script to load a browser and website when…
Open Sourcing WBStack
Open Sourcing the code and config for WBStack has always been part of the plan, although functionality came first throughout the first year or so. Finally there is a github organization for wbstack containing 16 public repositories that make up the entire deployment for wbstack.com. This effort took a few weeks trying to split sensible…
Creating a new replica after purging binlogs with bitnami mariadb docker images
I have been using the bitnami mariadb docker images and helmfiles for just over a year now in a personal project (wbstack). I have 1 master and 1 replica setup in a cluster serving all of my SQL needs. As the project grew disk space became pressing and from an early time I has to…