Hyprland Quick-Start Guide: Setting Up a Modern Tiling Window Manager on Linux

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling window manager built for the modern Wayland display server protocol. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up Hyprland on your Linux system.

Why Wayland?

First and foremost, performance and reduced input lag. Wayland is a modern replacement for X11, and it has much cleaner architecture, better application separation, and improved HiDPI hardware support.

What is a Tiling Window Manager and Why Should I Care?

So, a tiling window manager, as opposed to a floating window manager, organizes your windows in a non-overlapping, grid-like pattern. It will give you a superhuman ability to fly through your windows and workspaces with hotkeys and improve your productivity.

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Local Dev Craft: A Dive into Kubernetes with kind, KEDA, and LocalStack AWS (Part 1)

Welcome to my new series of posts aimed at crafting a robust local development environment that mirrors your production setup in the cloud. The essence is to provide a playground where you can debug, test, and get a feel of your applications before they hit the production stage. Over the span of these posts, we’ll be tinkering with various tools and technologies, knitting them together to form a setup that’s not only developer-friendly but also educative.

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EOS Quick-start [Part 3] — Voting for Block Producers

This is part 3 of EOS quick-start. Please makesure you have completed [Part 2] Install from sources and have all requirements installed.

Before we begin

First things first: By voting you are accepting the EOS Constitution. Make sure you have read it!

As we already stated in [Part 1] Introduction, EOS is in many ways a social experiment in governance. One of the aspects of this is voting for block producers and you vote matters. There are currently few ways to vote for EOS block producers currently available:

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EOS Quick-start [Part 4] — Run Local Testnet.

This is part 4 of EOS quick-start. Please makesure you have completed [ Part 2 ] Install from sources and have all requirements installed.

Also refer to [ Part 1 ] Introduction for basic information on EOS.IO

Run EOS.IO Local Testnet

after the build successfully finished, you need to run

nodeos --config-dir ./config --data-dir ./data

this will generate data and config folder with default config.ini  file in you working folder, then stop it with Ctrl + C.

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EOS quick-start. [Part 2] — Install from sources.

This is part 2 of EOS quick-start. Please refer to [ Part 1 ] Introduction for basic information on EOS.IO

Installation and configuration

In EOS.IO there are three main progreams that weare going to use througout this tutorials:

  • nodeos is n EOS node daemon
  • keosd is a wallet keys daemon
  • cleos is a cli - command line interface tool

Option 1. Run Docker image

This is the simplest and easiest way. Just run the following command to get into EOS enabled shell:

docker run -it eosio/eos:latest /bin/bash

Option 2. Build using build script

So according to the README on https://github.com/EOSIO/eos, all I need to do to run local testnet is:

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Let’s go serverless.. getting started

This is a post that shows how to install and configure serverless framework for google cloud platform. serverless icon

What do you mean serverless?..

For those of you who don’t know, serverless architecture is an architecture in which you get a dynamic allocation of machine resources and charged for the actual amount of resources consumed by an application, rather than on pre-purchased units of capacity.

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How to install your own parse-server on OpenShift

UPDATE October 2017: As of today, OpenShift 2 is officially reached its end of life and is shut down rendering this guide irrelevant. I will keep it here for historical purposes.

Please note that this guide was for version 2 of OpenShift cloud platform. parse-server-example supports OpenShift 3 platform out of the box, so there is no need for any external guide.

TL;DR just take me to the instructions

parse-openshift

Few months ago I was consulting a start-up called AbiliSense on their cloud solution. They build this amazing mobile app for people with hearing disabilities. After understanding their service needs we decided to go with Parse BaaS solution, and it was all good until the dramatic Parse Announcement  about the retirement of their services. So there was a bit of frustration.. But then we realized that parse-server

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