Remembering what I loved
It has been ages since I have ever gone for a physical meetup. Work, university and COVID-19 simply made it impossible for me to attend one. My mind was cluttered with how much I hate university and many more. The…
No audio device detected after upgrading to F34
In Fedora 34, Fedora team decided to switch from Pulse Audio to Pipewire. Pipewire is still very experimental and has various issues.
After I upgraded to Fedora 34, Pipewire refused to detect my audio. I read through forums on Archlinux,…
Error: libnode.so.64: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I encountered this error recently when attempting run an executable NodeJS file. This error was due to a mismatch of the currently installed npm packages against my NodeJS version.
What Caused The Error?
I installed my NPM packages and thereafter…Weird Coroutines Reference Issue
Recently, I encountered a weird issue with coroutines in Kotlin. A library that references a coroutine version that differed from my Kotlin’s coroutine could not compile. It resulted in the following error being displayed.
Cannot access 'kotlinx.coroutines.CoroutineScope' which is a…
Buying Experience: Seagate IronWolf 16TB NewEgg
I recently ordered and shipped in a 16TB hard disk from NewEgg.
Some of my friends recommended me to buy an external hard disk, send to a forwarder and then ship it to Singapore. This is indeed a more affordable…
Creating units or illusions in DotA 2 Lua Modding
The following shows several examples of creating units or illusions in DotA 2 modding. This is with regards to server sided modding (custom games in DotA 2). It uses Lua as a language and requires some prior understanding of DotA…
PHP News For September 2019
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during September.
Change in error reporting
In PHP 8, “error_reporting=E_ALL” will be the new default. Currently, PHP uses “E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ” for error reporting.Laravel 6 LTS released!
Great…PHP News For August 2019
Here’s a condensed list of things that happened in PHP world during August.
PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8 Released
Earlier this month, PHP team announced the availability of PHP 7.1.31, 7.2.21, 7.3.8. Please note that PHP 7.1 is on security fixes…Cloudfoundry SSH with environment
The default cf ssh without parameters allows users to access their containers or virtual machine just fine. However, there are limitations to this.
In PHP buildpacks, the default SSH will not load dynamic libraries such as curl. The following commands…
PCF Rolling Deployment
In the recent versions of Cloudfoundry, the command cf v3-zdt-push was made available. This is a form of blue green deployment that handles a lot of hassle for you. Previously, you would have to use tools or write script to…