Install R and RStudio Server on Debian 9

When working on data science problems you’ll probably will come in touch with the well known statistical software package R. While R due his long history is an extremely versatile & powerful system for almost any analytical task it’s not known for his user friendliness and can sometimes be challenging to setup locally.

Quick tip: Formatting date/time data in Django

There are situations where you obtain JSON data from an external source (e.g. via a REST-API) which contains date and time Information in the ISO 8601 format which looks like this:

2020-10-27T13:47:25.662Z

Install Node.js in Debian 10

To be able to develop with Node.js or to deploy Node.js application on a server there has to be a Node.js runtime installed on the server. Whereas there is Node.js available in the Debian package repository its not the most current Node.js version. Let’s install Node.js in a more current version from a external apt repository.

Create encrypted data backups to Backblaze B2

Creating & keeping backups of your data is essential and often not done because of the hassle associated with it. Using the powerful & easy command line tool HashBackup you can create encrypted local and remote backups in different storage destinations like WebDAV, Amazon S3, Backblaze B2.