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3. November 2020

Review: Xiaomi SmartFan S2 / 3

Let me start off by saying that I in general haven’t been all that interested in making everything in my house “smart”. There are several reasons for this, where the…

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7. May 2020

Digital Ocean’s Load Balancer bandwidth

Load balancers are incredibly useful when a single server isn’t capable of handling the load or if you wan’t greater reliability. But what if bandwidth is the limiting factor, what…

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14. November 2019

A year of cold showers

It’s now been well over a year since I started this habit. As a matter of fact, during this time I have replaced the warm showers all together. Update: It’s…

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1. November 2019

jQuery resize-end event

Recently I was asked about jQuery’s resize event. It runs its resize while the users resizes the window – meaning it can be triggered hundreds of times before ending the…

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22. August 2019

WordPress on Digital Ocean’s Managed MySQL Databases

Earlier this year Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases. At that time, only PostgreSQL was made available, and now MySQL and Redis have finally landed as well. I have now done…

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15. February 2019

First impression of Digital Ocean’s Managed Databases

Last night Digital Ocean launched Managed Databases, a service I have been looking forward to. For now it’s only available for PostgreSQL (which I hardly ever use) but MySQL support…

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