guides Featured 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
guides 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
guides 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
guides 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, "
guides 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
letsencrypt 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
