Quick tip: MacOS Homebrew Cheatsheet

Homebrew is a open-source package manager for Apple MacOS not to different from the well known linux package manager like dpkg, rpm or the FreeBSD pkg.

Some commands which I need regularly even though not often are composed in the following list.

Quick tip: Turning off laptop display under Debian 10

I’m running my rusty old ThinkPad T430s Laptop as (quite capable) homelab VM host under Linux/KVM running playground VMs. And because I’m accessing this machine only remotely over RDP I don’t have use for the internal laptop display.

After looking around what is the best way to turn the internal laptop display off I’ve settled for a simple solution using the linux command vbetool.

Run Node.js application in Docker & deploy it to Microsoft Azure

Utilising cloud services make it easy to deploy Node.js applications online, without the need to setup an own virtual private server (VPS) and install and configure the needed operating system and/or runtimes in it. It’s also an important tool for the realisation of web solutions based on micro services.

In this article, I’ll show how to run a minimal Node.js application inside Docker and deploy it to Microsoft Azure using the Azure Container Registry and Azure App Services.

Install miniconda on MacOS

One of the most used tools in data science field (alongside R) is Python with his enormous amount of libraries like NumPy, pandas or SciPy.

Alongside these there is also the web frontend Jupyter that makes it easy to create interactive Python notebooks which are locally served on your system. If this is not your cup of tea there are several existing hosted solution like Google Colaboratory