This blog describes the procedure to enable SSL authentication for a standalone PostgreSQL setup. We can use a self-signed certificate to enable ssl for our Postgres server. In a production environment, use a certificate signed by a certificate authority (CA).

Monit is an open-source tool for monitoring your machine’s processes, files, directories, file systems, disks, etc.

If you want to fiddle with Dynamodb locally without having to do all the hassle of signing for AWS, here is the fastest way to do it.

In the previous article, we learned how to use Contentful and how to create a content model for our project. If you haven’t read that article yet, please find it here.

In this article, we will try to understand what a headless CMS is, and how we can use them.

Touch Target : An MIT study found that the average width of an index finger is 45–57 px and the average size of the thumb is 72 px.

Downloading and running SQL Developer on an ARM M1 Mac with Apple Silicon is not straightforward, at least as of this writing. However, you can make it run like this.

Installing mysql2 is not straightforward in M1. After installing the Rosetta version of mysql using brew, you need to follow up with the following command to install he mysql2 gem

Installing the ruby-oci8 gem on Apple Silicon M1 follows multiple steps.

Installing the pg gem on Apple M1 silicon is not straightforward. As with many other development setup, it is recommended as of today to run all these software using Rosetta.

To install Nokogiri on Apple M1, assuming you are using x86 Ruby this command would do the trick (no need to open the terminal in Rosetta mode)

After a lot of time-wasting in fighting the compilation errors of various ruby versions, I found out that this command consistently installs Ruby versions using rbenv (should work for RVM as well)