Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients 300g 00 strong flour (substitute AP, ~2 3/8 cups) 3/4tsp baking soda 225g room temperature butter (2 sticks) 100g granulated sugar (~1/2 cups) 200g brown sugar (~1 cup) 5tsp vanilla paste (or extract)...
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Using APK for Alpine Linux with Docker
Some quick tips on how to use apk for Alpine Linux in a Docker environment. Some common use cases might be to install command line tools you will use in scripts, or to compile...
OSX Mojave Disappearing Icons Fixed
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Rust: JSON stringify and parse in Node.js
I’m learning Rust for a project to build native modules for use with Node.js and it took me a bit of time to figure out how to parse and stringify JSON using serde_json and...
Fix pkg on FreeNAS 11.2
I upgraded to FreeNAS 11.2, and then was unable to run pkg with an error about being unable to find the local repo file. pkg: Repository local load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo-local.sqlite) failed: No...
Docker-CE on CentOS 7
Install Docker-CE (not just “docker) to get the latest version on CentOS. Update firewalld to allow host/container traffic. Restart firewalld to pick up the changes. Create a group named “docker” and add any users...
Wildcard SSL Certs: Let’s Encrypt & Cloudflare
My servers have been using free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for some time now, but I was really excited to hear about support for wildcard SSL certificates in 2018. Wildcards are now available thus...
