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Notes and write-ups
everything tagged devops
LaundryAlert - never forget your laundry again
A few months ago I was hanging my laundry after it stayed in the washing machine for half a day before I remembered I had forgotten to take it out. And this didn’t happen for the first time. Maybe it happened to you too. I got fed up and that’s when I got an idea.
Self signed SSL certificates on iOS
Recently I was working on a project and I needed to add an SSL certificate for the API service. Normally you would use Let’s Encrypt or some other certificate authority after deploying the service. In this case, though, my service will always only run on a local network and thus I have to generate a self-signed certificate.
Running HTTPS on localhost
🚀 Quick note before you dive in! This article shows the way of creating your own SSL certificate for local use. It works… but it’s a bit of a hassle. If you’d rather skip the copy-paste-and-curse routine, check out Novus — a handy local HTTPS proxy for macOS. It sets up HTTPS with custom domains in minutes, so you can get straight to building cool stuff instead of fighting certificates.
Keeping track of database changes and when it can be useful
My task was simple - we had a Postgres database and a data science team that needed to consume changes from the database to update their internal datasets. But how on earth would I do that? 🤷🏻♂️ Luckily, my colleagues brought some light into this mysterious database world but I still had to (wanted) read a lot to understand it better and make sure I did it right.