Background Losing access to our precious data due to hardware failures is a nightmare for all of us. Bad sectors on a hard disk drive (HDD) or any other similar failures can block normal data copy/transfer operations and render some of your files inaccessible. Fortunately, there are advanced...
How to create your own reverse geocoding API using OpenStreetMap Docker, Osimium and Nominatim
During my master’s at the University of Twente and for the course Managing Big Data, I worked with three other students on a very interesting project in the field of big data. We measured global internet speed and latency changes between 2019 and 2022 (Covid period). The dataset we used for...
A fully automated Filezilla installer bash-script on Ubuntu Linux 20.04
Almost five years ago, I wrote this blog post Making an installer/updater for Filezilla on Ubuntu Linux Today in this blog post, I present a fully automated bash script based on my earlier script. This script automatically pulls the latest version of FileZilla tarball from Filezilla project website...
How to perform SQL queries with WooCommerce?
This post will be updated regularly. This is a work in progress 🙂 DISCLAIMER: Maybe the title is a bit misleading, but this blog post is meant to be as a reference for people just like me who are forced to google everytime how to get a or to manipulate product, product category and all other stuff...
How to use Fabric to deploy a flask web application
Lately, I have been busy making a deploy script for a Flask API. I have never worked before with Flask and I just got to know Flask a couple of months ago. I have to admit, there are not a lot of resources online explaining how to work exactly with Fabric. Although, the website of fabric (fabfile)...
How to install CUDA-9.0 on with cuDNN-7.1.4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Hi everyone, Cuda and cuDNN are must-have tools for everyone who wants to start with Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Machine Learning using GPU (which is way much faster than using the CPU even if it’s core i7). Based on my little experience in this field. Tensorflow for example, took 10 to...
How to install LaTeX packages in Ubuntu 16.04
It’s quite frustrating when you want to work on a report using TexMaker on Ubuntu 16.04 and you get an error: LaTeX Error: file pgf-pie.sty not found. Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed, or enter new name Download the package from the website move the folder to ~/texmf/tex/latex/ or...
How dev-books.com turns your computer into a Cryptocurrency miner
A couple of months ago I saw a topic on Hacker News called The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow Link . I was really happy to see the website and I thought I could use it later once I need a book. Today I wanted to search for couple of books about Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing...
How to read decorrespondent.nl for free
I am a programmer, but I am also interested in Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. I read frequently articles online about them. I follow also specific sociologist or anthropologists who write about the those certain topics, for example Willem Schinkel. He is a Professor of Social Theory at...
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