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Terraform: upgraded CentOS/LAMP/WordPress guide

Linux February 3, 2019

New things are happening in my life, which is pushing me to try new technology/software/everything (which is a very positive thing). I will get into more detail about what …

Lifestyle

The Tesla Model 3 finally arrived in the Netherlands

Lifestyle November 18, 2018

Sometimes I may seem a bit like a Tesla fan, but to be honest I am not a fan of any car brand. It's more that Tesla has stolen …

Lifestyle

Anki Vector, the cute robot: review after 4 days

Lifestyle October 26, 2018

The Anki Vector is a cute small robot, which has a lot of interactive features thanks to its AI. It's not just a kids toy, it's meant for adults …

Lifestyle

Fighting food waste with the Too Good To Go app

Lifestyle October 7, 2018

Sometimes there are these simple but smart solutions to make the world a little bit better. One of these things I came across is the Too Good To Go …

Linux

Really quick WordPress on a CentOS LAMP stack guide

Linux September 16, 2018

Introduction This is a guide to get a fresh CentOS installation running, with LAMP stack and WordPress, in just a few minutes. Even though many cloud providers allow you …

Linux

Testing made easy: use cloud servers

Linux August 21, 2018

Everyone knows not to do testing in a production environment. Although this is common practice in critical business environments, I can really recommend to do this for your own …

Other Tech

The occasional slow WordPress hit or how you should move the cron

Other Tech August 19, 2018

So you have a WordPress site which is fully optimized with a caching plugin, a recent and fast PHP version, maybe even MySQL and webserver optimizations, but still occasionally …

Lifestyle

About electric cars (from a former petrol head)

Lifestyle August 19, 2018

I started life as a petrol head. I liked almost every car that had a petrol engine and was special. From American V8 (Corvette C4), beautiful Busso V6 (Alfa …

Linux

Activate HTTP/2 on Ubuntu 18.04+Apache

Linux August 13, 2018

HTTP is the protocol that is used by your web browser to retrieve web pages. The most common version is HTTP 1.1. This protocol was published in 1997, so …

Random Stuff

Welcome to my new blog

Random Stuff August 12, 2018

Welcome! I've started this new blog to share things about my life and to help my readers with Linux and tech stuff. I am a Linux System Administrator, but …

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