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Dick Tang

software engineer | devops | open source software advocater @ hong kong

Self-hosting your VSCode online IDE, from Raspberry Pi 4 to AWS Graviton2

Self-hosting your VSCode online IDE, from Raspberry Pi 4 to AWS Graviton2

Did you write your code in the browser? If so, you may properly heard about platform like AWS Cloud 9, Microsoft Visual Studio Online or…

Oct 8, 2021

Docker Desktop is no longer free — and replacement: lima-vm

Docker Desktop is no longer free — and replacement: lima-vm

As announced on 31 August 2021, Docker Desktop will turn into Docker Personal and it will be only available freely for small businesses…

Sep 2, 2021

How Travis CI kills the productivity of a 100+ team in 2 hours

How Travis CI kills the productivity of a 100+ team in 2 hours

tl;dr Travis CI caused a 16-engineer-manday+ loss to my working company, by suddenly switching my working company’s organization ….

Nov 18, 2020

Picking a password manager for a tech team

Picking a password manager for a tech team

tl;dr There are good password managers for team, either paid (1Password) or free (Bitwarden). Do consider to use them in your team.

Aug 15, 2020

Kubernetes GUI clients in 2020: kube-dashboard, Lens, Octant and kubenav

Kubernetes GUI clients in 2020: kube-dashboard, Lens, Octant and kubenav

Kubernetes is one of the leading standard on container orchestration platforms since recent years. And every Kubernetes System…

Apr 12, 2020

DNS resolve issue of Google Public DNS for some gTLD

DNS resolve issue of Google Public DNS for some gTLD

Since 12pm HKT (UTC+8), Google Public DNS Server (namely, 8.8.8.8) fail to resolve domain with some new gTLD including .xyz, .blog, .app…

Sep 3, 2019

How to store petabytes of data economically

How to store petabytes of data economically

How do you store your precious image and video? Very likely you will buy a (or two) harddisks, attaching it to your computer (either via…

Nov 3, 2018

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