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Snowplow

Snowplow is a company based in London that offers a “Behavioral Data Platform” in the cloud and also an open source version. According to the official website, they are the third …

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Julio Batista Silva
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HashiCorp Vault in High Availability with Consul

Consul HashiCorp Consul was created in 2014 as a DNS-SD (DNS based Service Discovery) to solve the communication problem between microservices, but it also has other …

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Julio Batista Silva
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Hashicorp Vault

Consider Infisical as an alternative to Hashicorp Vault.

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Julio Batista Silva
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Windows

Updated in December 2023. Installation Creating a Installation USB You can download Windows 10 directly from the Microsoft website. Choose a USB drive of at least 8GB for the tool …

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Julio Batista Silva
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Speed up videos on the web

If the website uses the <video> tag from HTML5, simply open a console in the browser and run one of the following commands: document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = …

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Julio Batista Silva
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Arch Linux (in dual boot)

Since my consulting work relies heavily on Microsoft tools like Office and Power BI, I have primarily been using Windows as my operating system. I still do a lot of programming, …

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Julio Batista Silva
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Setting up my MacBook

Disable [rootless] System Integrity Protection ("rootless") prevents some directories and files from being modified even by the root user. Some programs do not work well with SIP …

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Julio Batista Silva
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Arch Linux on MacBook

Attention: I write all tutorials for myself according to my preferences and needs. Do not blindly follow this “tutorial” or run any command without knowing exactly what it does.

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Discover Network Driver Name

Instead of restarting the computer after network issues, it can be much more practical to just restart the card, that is, add and remove the kernel module. But, for that, we first …

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Fonts and Input in Japanese

Few people know, but around 2003 and 2004 I took a Japanese course. Unfortunately, nearly a decade without contact with the language made me forget most of what I learned. Now I …

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Julio Batista Silva