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Managing an SSL-enabled PostgreSQL server using Ansible
In Fall 2023, I’ve bought a set of four Raspberry Pi 4 and made a cute little rack out of them: Recently, I’ve been immersed in playing around with geometry data, more specifically playing around with PostGIS. I’ve been currently reading through an excellent publication PostGIS in Action. Together with the book, there many helper…
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How to Develop a QGIS Plugin
During my work at CleverFarm, I often needed to work with geospatial data managed by Czech farms. eAGRI (especially its subdivion also referred to as The Farmer Portal) is a critical source of information for many farmers in the Czech Republic in regard to the soil they manage. However, the user interface which The Farmer…
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Free Culture
Recently, I’ve read a phenomenal book which was recommended in an equally fantastic video on copyright law, made by David Bruce, a classical music composer and enthusiast. The full name of the book is Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity but I will simply…
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Rock In Opposition(s)
Disclaimer: this is in no way an objective article on RIO1, just a collection of random thoughts which occured to me (read as “I found on the Internet, am too much lazy to find and list all the resouces, so I proudly proclaim them as mine instead”).
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Pieces of classical music I’ve listened to
Since the middle of March 2019, I’ve been discovering my deep love of classical music. Since I already don’t know what I’ve listened to so far, I will keep track of all the pieces from now on here.
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Reading challenge for 2019
The challenge I set to myself for this year was to read a book every month.
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Shutdown hooks (and other exit handle extravaganza) in runtime environments
This article will consider various implementations of a shutdown hook: simply a piece of code we wish to execute at the very end of the application. The usual scenario of using shutdown hooks is when we want to clean up resources (closing network ports, log files, files in general, streams, …). Normally, we do such…
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The Evolution of Cooperation – Robert Axelrod
The book is an introductory literature to game theory. The book mainly speaks about Prisoner’s dilemma (PD) which is also a model for demonstrating real behaviour of structures in our society.