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Renaming an index in Elastic (slight hacks)

We've all been there .. the pet project has grown, the index is too large and you want to use fancy features like aliases with write-active indices, but you cannot reuse the name of the index for your new alias - so you'll have to modify your application. That sucks. The

Move WSL to different drive

Windows Subsystem for Linux is awesome, but it may benefit from storing its drives (VHD's) on another disk. List containers You can run this command to list all containers. Each container has a volume attached (VHD) and can operate independently. Usually, you'll have one container for your usage (the default)

Space Engineers, figuring out the API

This is a short note on how we can develop scripts for use in the game Space Engineers. Background A friend suggested Space Engineers to me, so I bought it and after a while of scavenging, mining and dying - I tried out the Programmable Block. I was in awe

Deserializing different types based on properties, with Newtonsoft.Json

Sometimes we're presented objects in JSON that do not directly map to a strongly typed object. An example of that is given here: [{ "type" : "Car", "wheels" : 4, "trunk" : true }, { "type" : "Bicycle", "wheels" : 2, "persons" : 1 } ] This example is very simple, but it presents a fun little problem. How can we

Detecting mismatched objects with Newtonsoft.Json

One common problem with API Client Libraries is that their strongly typed objects don't match the response objects that the API gives. I faced this issue with TMDbLib and wanted to solve it in my unit tests. It turns out that we relatively easily can work in a "validator" using

Lets Encrypt organized for reverse nginx proxy

This is a short post on using Let's Encrypt to get TLS certificates for use in Nginx virtual host sites. This post assumes: * Ubuntu * NGINX (running a number of domains) * Some form of scheduler (Cron, Rundeck, ..) Let's Encrypt Let's Encrypt is an initiative meant to allow anyone to receive a