My last electronics project was creating a LED dimmer for some dinner table lights. This all works fine, but the bare light bulbs were a bit bright to look at directly. The MVP (Minimal Viable Product) version to fix this problem consisted of some ugly paper strips, taped to the bulbs 😉 Even though this MVP version did help, it doesn’t look too good, so a long-term-solution was needed. The lamp fittings are metal, and have some ribs which make…
I wanted to build my own WiFi dimmer, to connect my dinner table lights to Alexa (Amazon Echo Dot). The used parts are an ESP8266 (I used a Wemos D1 Mini Clone), an ATTiny45, some sort of power module to supply 3.3 volt, and a zero-cross-detector / Triac dimmer module.
For migrating from legacy monolith (web) applications to something more modern and manageable, we have been switching to micro-services. Part 3 of a 5 part blog post shows the Identity Provider component.
Summary I have created a Fluent Bit LUA Filter to force proper data types to be send to our Elastic Search (log collector) Database, to prevent Elastic from rejecting the log records. GitHub Project: https://github.com/atkaper/fluent-bit-lua-filter-elastic-data-types Environment We are running a bunch of (on premise) Kubernetes clusters, all having around 20 nodes, with many deployments on it. The deployments use different technologies; Java, Kotlin, Node.js, GO, Python, C, … and quite some standard open source applications. Most of them have been…
For migrating from legacy monolith (web) applications to something more modern and manageable, we have been switching to micro-services. Part 2 of a 5 part blog post shows the gateway component.
GitHub Project: https://github.com/atkaper/k8s-tiller-history-cleanup Introduction In our on premise Kubernetes cluster, we use Helm for a big part of our application / micro-services deployments. Helm uses an engine called Tiller (which is a deployment in the cluster). It executes the installs / updates / deletes, and it stores the results of deployments in the system as config maps. While migrating our applications to a new K8S cluster, we saw that we forgot to set a limit on the history which is…
For migrating from legacy monolith (web) applications to something more modern and manageable, we have been switching to micro-services. Part 1 of a 5 part blog post gives an architecture overview.
Where I live, they have changed the way they pickup garbage. Only plastic, paper, and green-stuff will be picked up (in separate bins). And the ordinary (formerly grey) trash you need to bring to one of the central bins in the neighborhood (and glass you have to bring to the bins at the shopping mall). So, those central “grey” bins… to prevent just anyone from dropping stuff in there, you need to use an RFID badge to open it up….
I have a lava-lamp, which should not be on for more than 5 or 6 hours at a time. So I decided to move it from switching on/off manually to something a bit more automated. For this I reprogrammed a Sonoff WiFi switch (based on the ESP8266). Now it can be controlled via voice commands (via Alexa / Amazon’s Echo Dot), and via some simple CURL (Wifi) command line call’s. The curl’s are put in a cron (timer) process on…
Mini project of the day… I did create a tiny WordPress plugin, to add a meta robots header to some of my pages, to prevent them from being indexed by google and other search engines. So without further ado, here’s the source code, to be put in a file: wp-content/plugins/meta-robots/meta_robots.php in your WordPress installation folder: After adding this code, go to your plugin configuration, and enable the plugin. It should show up in the list automatically. To enable the header,…