It is probably no surprise for you if I tell you that I am writing this on an iPad. Recently I was looking into GitHub Codespaces. A tool that makes your development experience independent of your physical device or location. It is based on a browser-based VSCode instance, paired with…

One would usually use an interactive login to access the Google Sheets on behalf of a user. This approach works perfectly if the user is sitting in front of the computer at the time of access. However, if we want to access Google Sheet information during a batch job (or…

I recently moved to a Macbook M1 as my daily driver (running Linux on top). It came to my surprise how well everything worked it was. Virtualization There are currently three options for how to run a Linux VM on top of macOS on the M1. Parallels, VMWare Fusion and UTM…

Recently I’ve started to publish sticker designs on redbubble. As I am after the “long-tail” items, I planned to generate hundreds of personalized stickers. You can apply this pattern for all kinds of use cases (for instance to generate stickers for each birthday). First, we start by creating a template…

In this article, we are going to take a look at the impact of the recent log4j Zero-Day on Apache Karaf based apps. The situation is evolving, I recommend this page to stay up-to-date. What Log4j Version am I using? Apache Karaf uses Log4j indirectly through PAX Logging. | Karaf Version | PAX Logging Version |…

With the recent log4j vulnerability, everyone is currently patching their Java Applications. In this article, we’re going to take a look how such a patch can look like. Usually, we don’t use log4j directly, but get it through another maven dependency transiently. To identify what log4j version we are using…

I recently migrated all c14r builds from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. The migration went smoothly. Here is a snippet: build-dexter: name: Static Code Analysis for Dexter Microservice runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v2…

I recently upgraded a containerized neo4j instance, when I got the following error message during startup: 2021–06–26 16:14:46.180+0000 ERROR [neo4j/ec6f8aee] Error upgrading database. Database left intact and will likely not be able to start: org.neo4j.storageengine.migration.UpgradeNotAllowedException: Neo4j cannot be started because the database files require upgrading and upgrades are disabled in…