HTTPS is a must now-a-days and it’s easier to set up than ever before. SSL Certificates are all free and there are tools to help you get one, verifiy your domain and even to renew them automatically assuming you’re hosting your site in modern setup as you should in 2020. In this blog post, I […]

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Hi, as always my blog is the place with my collection of personal notes. This time about SEO which I only started learning (a bit deeper) into just few days ago. Here will be a few of my checklist and things to look into improving SEO. You can look at by searching this in Google […]

(just a note for myself, only applies to my EC2 linux) go to EC2 Console page. Elastic Block Store > Volumes. Action > Modify Volume. Put new size and Modify. Once the volume is in optimizing state you can modify the volume so that Linux file system recognise the change. Connect to EC2. lsblk sudo […]

as always, these are my personal notes and the link for the installer on s3 bucket is for my region. if you’re on different region, you will need to change the bucket and region from the link to yours. sudo yum update -y sudo yum install ruby sudo yum install wget cd /home/ec2-user wget https://aws-codedeploy-eu-west-1.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/latest/install […]

react-native is a very popular mobile framework. just like react it is very un-opinionated, one needs to know other tools and libraries to build an app. so let’s be more opinionated. here’s the list of best tools and libraries available for react-native development at the time of writting. react-native Official react native site. https://reactnative.dev/ create-react-native-app […]

There are always many ways to set environment variables on different operating systems. On Linux, there are many places you can set environment variables and different applications look for environment variables in different locations. I came across this problem while working on a home project on my Mac. I was using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(“MY_VAR”); in dotnet core. […]

Amazon Linux 2 is based on Centos and thus will be using YUM as package manager. Security group Check security group and give neccessary permission for inbound and outbound traffic. For webserver, inbound includes port 80 and 443. if you want to SSH into the box, port 22 need to be granted. install Docker sudo […]

Hi, I was using Ubuntu 16.04 and one application I tried to use was failing because my version of Openssl is not up to date. Check your version of Openssl using the following command openssl version -a Go to Openssl.org and get the link to the version of Openssl Tar ball. https://www.openssl.org/source/ Download the Tar […]

remove tracked and untracked and directories git clean -fx -fd pull a clean copy from git git fetch –all git reset –hard origin/master git refresh gitignore, If you added gitignored after commits git rm -r –cached . git add . git commit -m “.gitignore is now working” Combining multiple commits Git locally this only works if […]