Overview Xpra is an open-source multi-platform persistent remote display server and client for forwarding applications and desktop screens. The Xpra homepage provides the following overview: It gives you remote access to individual applications or full desktops. On X11, it is also known as screen for X11: it allows …

Cloud Run Regex Normally when someone mentions regex its time to make a swift exit. Since I was working on a new project featuring Cloud Run I needed to face my fears. This is my story. Regex for the masses Cloud Run has a defined url signature which is common across all deployments. If you need to check that this …

ChromeOS Terminal The default terminal in ChromeOs was making some of my applications look less than their best. For example Pass is one of the main applications that I use on a regular basis. When using this software the border that was meant to be shown as lines is actually displaying garbage characters. The above …

Introduction Recently I have been tasked with the job of testing lots of web based applications. Historically this has been a manual effort, so to begin the new year I looked at how this might be automated. Having looked at a number of options, I remembered a really cool piece of technology I used for web-scraping. …

The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. In the following blog post I assume you already have the Go environment setup. Previously we have created a Hello World application. The next step is to create a command line application. The example below covers the basics of …

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification (September 2021) Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted Pre Exam Notes Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the safe …

Recently while playing with some development tools, I was surprised to see Minikube now runs on ChromeOS. Minikube allows for a scaled down Kubernetes cluster running directly on your host machine. Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. Put simply it enables the "simplified" running of containers. In this …

Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you. The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

Fish is described as a smart and user-friendly command shell. As you would expect it works on Linux and is super useful to get that optimized experience. The blog post covers installation on GCP Cloud Shell I would expect the installation process to be similar on any Linux based machine. If you want to use oh-my-bash, …

An Nginx reverse proxy enables client requests to be forwarded on to a backend server. In this scenario the backend server provides responses to the client. A setup like this can be useful in a number of situations where Nginx is used to control the processing. It is also a nice security setup as the Nginx acts as a …