If you’ve been working with Docker on Windows for a there is big chance that you are aleready using Rancher Desktop instead of Docker Desktop after the licensing change Docker did in 2021. While Rancher Desktop makes it easy to manage Docker on Windows it does not expose the Docker socket over port 2375 by default. While Docker Desktop used to have a way to enable this by clicking a checkbox in the UI Ranches does not have such an option....
I usually use vim as my text editor of choice when I’m working with different text files like configurations, build scripts, docker compose files and etc. Some time ago I started using NeoVim on my personal laptop outof curiosity and at the end I fell in love with it. So natuarally I wanted to use the same in my work setup as well. Although Fedora is my goto distro nowadays for work I have to use Windows as per company policy....
I recently had the chance to start working with Apache Kafka as a part of a new module I’m working on at my workplace. So this is just me noting down my thoughts about my experience with Kafka as a series of articles. What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is a popular distributed event processing or event streaming platform. Kafka contains three main capabilities under the hood, which we can use for our event streaming workloads....
The Case for DNS-Level Ad Blocking: From Pi-hole to NextDNS The Setup Sometime ago, I decided try out DNS-level ad blocking just to see how much of my daily internet traffic was being hijacked by ads and trackers. I set up Pi-hole using Docker on my laptop and configured my router to route all DNS queries through it. After sometime, I could see a breakdown of my network traffic—ads, trackers, and more, all being filtered out effortlessly....
I have always wanted to move away from wordpress and start writing my blogs in Markdown. Hell, I event thought of keeping the wordpress blog as it is and publish content off GitLab or GitHub to it. But I always felt like it’s better to move on to a static site with my own domain. So finally I found the time to setup everything an get back on blogging again....