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I’m in the process of migrating existing Neovim plugins managed by Packer to a new plugin manager called ‘Lazy’. While setting the nvim-treesitter plugin, I came across this issue that nvim-treesitter keeps reinstalling all language parsers every time Neovim is started. [nvim-treesitter] [5/5] Treesitter parse for vim has been installed What happened? Well, it turns out this is is pretty much a common issue when you switching from Packer to Lazy plugin manager without cleaning up files and directories created by Packer according to this [1]....

On a few of my computers with 4K monitors running Linux, Firefox either display with tiny fonts or very large fonts, while most applications behave normally. After searching for a work around, I found the following solution works for me: setting the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to a smaller number, e.g. 0.7. From this this page: You can set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.0 (default is -1) on the about:config page. Adjust its value in 0....

Tonight I just stumbled on a command line tool or utility called ipcacl. This tool is used to perform operations on IP addresses and networks. On Fedora, ipcalc is provided by ipcacl package. If you on a different distro, search for ipcaclc, there should be a similar package name. ➜ rpm -q ipcalc ipcalc-1.0.3-9.fc40.x86_64 Here are some examples of what we can use this utility for, though I encourage you to run man ipcalc to learn more what you can do with it....

This is a short note on how to install metrics-server using Helm on my k8s cluster. $ kubectl version Client Version: v1.29.3 Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3 Server Version: v1.29.3 $ helm version --short v3.14.4+g81c902a Before we can install the chart, we will need to add the metrics-server repo to Helm. $ helm repo add metrics-server https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/metrics-server/ Update the repo: $ helm repo update Hang tight while we grab the latest from your chart repositories....

To connect to a Redis server with Python, one can use python3-redis module. First verify that python3-redis module is installed. I’m showing the package name in Fedora 39, if you use a different distro, then check for the relevant package name. $ rpm -q python3-redis python3-redis-4.3.3-1.el9.noarch Here is the sample code to connect to a non-cluster Redis server: import redis # Connect to Redis r = redis.Redis(host='10.97.147.175', port=6379) # Set a key-value pair r....

Assuming that you use brew on your macOS, converting a ppk file to pem file is relatively easy. Install putty on your mac ➜ brew install putty Generate the key ➜ puttygen existing_key.ppk -O private-openssh -o new_key.pem Here are the options used in above command: -O private-openssh : save the output as a SSH-2 private key -o new_key.pem : save the output to new_key.pem Full credit go to this blog post [1], where I had learned to convert a PPK to PEM file....

I’ve been running Uptime Kuma on a podman-container for a long time with no problem. Recently, though, I’ve been running a mini Kubernetes cluster at home, and decided to move this conatainer to the same cluster. The following is to document how I deploy Uptime Kuma on a Kubernetes cluster. As I’m new to Kubernetes world, I broke down the tasks I need to do in 6 pieces: $ ls -1 1....

This is a quick note to remind me on how to attach or associate an instance profile (IAM role) to an EC2 instance using AWS CLI. There is a bonus section at the end to show how to replace one IAM role with another one directly. In this example, I already have a running EC2 instance i-0357ecc1111111111 running. I want to attach a new instance profile called SSMInstanceProfile to this instance....

We all know that the content of SSL CRT and KEY is a long string of characters broken by new line characters. If we want to use those SSL .crt and .key files with Kubernetes as a TLS secret, they required to be encoded as base64 and be in one-line. How to do this? Well, there are at least two ways. The first one is my favorite: $ base64 -w0 drone....

I have previously posted a similar topic on how to set the default dimension for Alacritty at launch. However, recently, Alacritty switched to TOML for its configuration. Here is the setting needs to be added to ~/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml: [window.dimensions] columns = 133 lines = 40 Reference: https://blog.khmersite.net/p/set-alacritty-default-dimensions/