Minecraft Client on Ubuntu
In the previous post we set up a Minecraft server on Ubuntu. Now we’re going to install the Minecraft client and connect to that server.
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Minecraft Server on Ubuntu
I’m not a gamer, but I have an offspring who is deeply obsessed with Minecraft. I set up a Minecraft server for her so that she can play with her friends online in a safe environment.
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A few things that caught my attention this week:
- Gemini
- Docker’s Generative AI & Machine Learning Stack
- Setting up a Minecraft Server on EC2
- Selenium 4.16 and
- Typical Airliner Seating Chart.
SSH Tunnel: Local Port Forwarding
SSH tunnels are a powerful and secure method for transmitting data over potentially unsecured networks. They allow users to establish an encrypted connection between their local machine and a remote server, providing a secure and private pathway for data. An SSH tunnel will allow a service running on a remote machine to appear as if it is running on a local machine. This is also known as port forwarding.
Read More →Static Redirects on Vercel
A redirect is a rule which sends users to a different URL than the one they requested. They are most commonly used to ensure that browsers still get to the correct page after it has been moved to a new URL.
If you have a relatively small number of redirects and don’t need to do anything too fancy then static (or “configuration”) redirects are a good option. Static redirects are configured on Vercel by adding entries to the vercel.json configuration file. There’s just one major snag: you can only create 1024 redirects using this mechanism.
Batch Resolving Merge Conflicts
Sometimes when you run git merge you will be confronted with a huge load of merge conflicts. However, if you are lucky there might be a clear rule which you can apply to each of those conflicts, either
- accept current change (change on current branch or
ours) or - accept incoming change (incoming change from other branch or
theirs).
In this case you can save yourself a lot of time and effort by specifying a particular merge strategy option.
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Some things that got my attention this week:
- Titan Image Generator in AWS Bedrock
- AWS Transcribe Supports 100+ Languages
- cron Jobs in Vercel
- R 4.3.2
- Spark 3.4.2
- Keras 3.0.0 and
- Oceanography Gift.
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My information highlights for the week:
Read More →Externalise CSS
By default Gatsby will embed CSS into the <head> of each HTML page. This is not ideal. In this post I take a look at how to move that CSS into an external file and how the contents of that file can be optimised to remove unused CSS.
Weekly Digest
A short week for me since I’m travelling. A small sample of highlights:
Read More →Gatsby on Vercel
In a previous post we deployed our Gatsby site on Netlify. Now let’s take a look at another platform: Vercel.
Read More →Dynamic Routing
Suppose that you want to make your site routing a little more flexible. For example, rather than just going straight to a 404 page if the path is not found, you might want to try and guess an appropriate (and valid!) path. This is where dynamic routing comes into play.
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Highlights from this week:
Read More →Custom 404 Page
Setting up a custom 404 page can add something special to your site. It provides you with the opportunity to do something memorable in the unfortunate event that a user asks for an unknown page.
Read More →Gatsby on Netlify
Deploying a Gatsby site can feel like a daunting task, especially with the array of potential hosting platforms. Among them, Netlify is a strong contender due to its seamless integration and deployment process. Netlify is actively engaged in improving support for Gatsby on their platform. This post will show how to get your Gatsby site live on Netlify.
Read More →Cookies & Headers from Selenium
One of my standard approaches to scraping content from a dynamic website is to diagnose the API behind the site and then use it to retrieve data directly. This means that I can make efficient HTTP requests using the requests package and I don’t need to worry about all of the complexity around scraping with Selenium. However, it’s often the case that the API requests require a collection of cookies and headers, and those need to be gathered using Selenium.
Adding robots.txt to a Gatsby Site
There are a couple files which can have an impact on the SEO performance of a site: (1) a sitemap and (2) a robots.txt. In a previous post we set up a sitemap which includes only the canonical pages on the site. In this post we’ll add a robots.txt.
A Gatsby site will not have a robots.txt file by default. There’s a handy package which makes it simple though. We’ll take a look at how to add it to the site and a couple of ways to configure it too.
Weekly Digest
Highlights from this week (some cloud, a bit of Docker, Spark and AI):
- AWS Certified Data Engineer
- General Availability of Docker Scout
- Generative Agents
- Quant Research at Scale
- Spark on AWS Lambda and
- How Loaded is Taylor Swift?
Update Sitemap for Canonical Pages
The principal purpose of a sitemap file is to inform search engines about the pages on a website that are available for crawling. It provides a list of URLs along with additional metadata about each URL to help search engines more intelligently crawl the site. If there are multiple page versions on a site then the sitemap should include only the canonical versions of those pages.
Read More →Add Canonical Links with Gatsby
In the previous post we completed the implementation of multiple site versions. There’s now more than one version of each of the content pages. From a developer and user perspective this is ideal: we have granular documentation for each version of our fictitious site. However, for SEO purposes this is not ideal.
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