kubernetes

Kubernetes Calico Debian 10 "10.96.0.1:443 connection refused"

Well well well here we go again. Just tried to bring my server infrastructure to some new stuff and startet to install K8s by hand. Everything went fine until I tried to install the network fabric in K8s. First I chosed Flannel but always got the error "10.96.0.1:443 connection refused" in…

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jdk14

JDK14 Flutter Gradle "Could not initialize class"

On my way creating my own solution regarding doorbells, homeautomation, SIP and stuff I stumbled onto a problem because "Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper" The answer: The Flutter Android project is initializing the Gradle settings with version 5.6.2…

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covid

Covid Hessen telegram bot

Hey hey, during this strange times I thought minutes and hours about how to code something useful. Well it ends up in a small bot which is scraping the official Covid infection number page of Hessen and post the result to every person who chats with the bot. He's called the "CovidHessenBot&…

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ipc

HapSee Mate IPC "hack"

So, one of my small-inbetween-projects was to "hack" a 20€ IP camera which I bought on eBay. However it was not that easy as I destroyed the first UART connector by just wiring it wrongly ;). At least I've managed to create some kind of custom firmware which starts a sshd, a ftpd and d…

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TFTPBoot & Windows 10

Yep, I played around with some china ip cameras and wanted to "customize" them. Sadly I broke an image in the flash so I had to sideload the backup - which I've luckily created beforehand - back to the device. I've searched for a solution to it using Windows and found two tools wor…

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nextcloud

Nextcloud 17 docker and nginx reverse proxy

sigh sometimes I hate this adminstration stuff but it was necessary as I'm migrating stuff to containerd version. This time I choosed to spend my time in migrating my existing nextcloud installation to the docker version (and upgrading during this process (everytime a great idea)). However I end…

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flutter

Flutter handle ListView overflow in Column

Everytime I run into this ... literally everytime: ListView in a Column and the resulting overflows (ok, to be honest, there's some not underestimating time between the usages ;)). "A RenderFlex overflowed by xxx pixels on the bottom" looks familiar? Ok solution is sometimes really sim…

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timemachine

TimeMachine Backup failed with error 11: 11

Hey hey, it's time to battle an annoying TimeMachine problem. A short foreword I'm running a FreeBSD solution with netatalk and avahi but suddenly it stops with the above message: Backup failed with error 11: 11. It's recommending to repair the backup drive but well there's no hardw…

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flutter

Flutter & i18n in a nutshell

During my first steps in develop some Flutter apps I came across - as always - the requirement for adding internationalization. In Flutter it's a three steps way to go to have i18n in your widgets. First of all you have to create a class to present your strings to the widget, then you have to ru…

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react

D3 and react

I know, there are various posts about how to integrate D3 into react components like this [https://medium.com/@Elijah_Meeks/interactive-applications-with-react-d3-f76f7b3ebc71] or this [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/react-d3-ecosystem/]. If you try it naively you'll face the problem…

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