The Problem when I did sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I noticed that it was trying to connect to the ubuntu mirror over IPv6 (and failing) My ISP hasn’t enabled IPv6 for me, so I can’t connect over IPv6. and I don’t have any IPv6 DNS servers. But still apt was trying to …
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Nomad is a general-purpose cluster orchestrator and scheduler. Up until Nomad 1.3 was released, it had no native support for discovering other applications running in the cluster. This is sort of a very elementary requirement when scheduling tasks in a cluster. Nomad relies on C…
Newcomers to Clojure so frequently ask this question that an FAQ/Guide is being discussed, to add to the Clojure website. I struggled a lot with the question too, when starting off in Clojureland. Here are my notes and opinions.
Or, the one in which we hand-craft nano Unix tools using Bash functions.
I find myself telling people that they will have to pry org-mode from my cold dead hands. Which befuddles me. Why, as an ingrate software nerd who has soured on software technology — talk about biting the hand that feeds — do I evince such strong sentiment about a software progr…
Rails abstract lot of database stuff away using Active record which is very convenient. But the convenience can bite back if we are not careful enough. Here I am going to list some common mistakes rails developers make and how to avoid them. Having network calls on rails after_c…
Free Software Community of India will be doing an ‘Ask Me Anything’ session on r/India subreddit. One of the moderators of the r/India reached out to us via filling the contact form on the website as well as in our chat group. As soon as I saw that the person filled the form, I …
Yesterday I finished reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. The book reminds me of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, which explores how the human brain makes decisions. In contrast, The Selfish Gene puts forward how genes make decisions and manipulate our decisions…
Recently I came to know about freedom-respecting Kiwix app and I found it cool. It is a reader for offline reading knowledge sources like Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg. There are many projects which you can download for offline reading, like AskUbuntu, sections of Wikipedia– li…
FizzBuzz is everywhere. Every programmer passes through its rite of passage, or at least bears witness to another. Over the years, many gentlenerds have taken it upon themselves to discover ever new ways to incant those hoary symbols. I hereby enjoin these few drops of Clojure t…
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