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AI Agents for Coding: Promise vs. Reality
Introduction As a software and infrastructure engineer with decades of experience, I’ve witnessed numerous technological shifts in our industry. Today, I’m exploring what might be another pivotal moment: the rise of AI coding agents. I use various AI tools daily (Perplexity, Repl.it, Gemini app, Claude API, GPT API, Ollama, Tabnine) for different tasks, but recently…
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Keepalived instance not entering FAILED state
When a monitored interface goes down, the instance immediately enters FAILED state and the other instance gets into the MASTER state. But, if you have a script block to check – say you are monitoring HAProxy – and HAProxy goes down the MASTER will not enter FAILED state, unless you do this: Set the weight…
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Discourse with Docker on port 80
Discourse can cause you trouble if you have it running(listening) on a non-standard port inside the Docker instance. (the feed, google auth return url have the port and host info in them) (assuming you would like to serve requests from a standard http(s) port). To make it work smoothly, I had to make it listen…
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My First Android App
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Terminal Services
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Web Development using PHP on Mac OSX
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Xtorrent