Set Local Timezone with Ansible You know this annoyance when you install a fresh linux server and it has time in UTC? At least I end up like that with Armbian when I don't access it with interactive shell. It turns out that there is a very simple

Killing Microsoft Defender on a Mac Big companies mean big problems. Big companies are targeted more often by cyber attacks. Big companies take more critical image losses. And also, big companies have a larger amount of "not that smart" employees. Thus it's not a coincidence that

How To: Multiple Queries in a Single Sequelize Migration In this blog post, I will discuss some details about the most popular NodeJS ORM called Sequelize . I will particularly take a look at database (schema) migrations and how to run multiple actions in a single Sequelize migration. This post is

Dealing with NPM v7 Audit Changes A bit more than one month ago, the 15th version of NodeJS was released. As an early adopter of everything, I moved my project to this new major version of NodeJS, and most things continued working smoothly. However, I also noticed that the known

NPM Audit + Jenkins Warnings Next Generation (Native JSON Format) Recently I wrote a story about how I displayed the NodeJS dependency audit report in Jenkins. In that blog post, I investigated the "custom parser" approach, which is a good option because you don't need to change

The Dangers of (non)Completing Observables (and How to Develop by Concept) Recently I've spent quite some time figuring out, why a part of our Angular app stopped working, although we didn't touch that part even a bit. The culprit of our issues turned out to

NPM Audit + Jenkins Warnings Next Generation (Custom Groovy Parser) At work, I'm developing some projects that use NPM as a package manager. Starting from version 6, NPM will display short audit information at the end of an npm install execution in the following format: found 290 vulnerabilities (283

Moving to Hashnode Hi there. I'm Yurko (or Uko in short): a software engineer, computer scientist, programmer, software craftsman, you name it. I'm a person who solves problems with software. I care for the solutions to be satisfactory to use, and stable (in a way that

Getting Cache out of Nowhere for a Tiny Functionality in Pharo This is yet another post about the anti-best practices of programming :). But it definitely can help you to better understand the reflective features of Pharo. Imagine that you want to add a Fibonacci sequence computation to Integer. The

MatchTool Epic Prolog While working on this project I felt myself as a true software archeologist. I was dusting the walls of an old pyramid to uncover the knowledge of the past civilizations and understand why this structure was built in a place with such unstable weather conditions. My attention

Vigorous Caching in Pharo or: "How I used Meta Links to Program my Program's Execution" Foreword This story is about the implementation of a super simplistic caching framework in Pharo. But I believe that the main value of this post is in the explanation of how

Using Pharo to Plan A Semester Schedule Today I had to draft a milestone plan for a student doing a bachelor project. (In our university we have a special "Bachelor Project" course where we are trying to make sure that students stay on track while doing their projects)