Blog Archives - JonathanMH

Music Monday: Devil Special (Dover, Bridge City Sinners)

Welcome to this episode of Music Monday! Today we’ll have two bands that in one way or another have a popular song regarding the devil! The Rolling Stones aren’t part of that list, I’m guessing you know their take on him.

The devil today means something very different to different groups of the population. Depending on how much or how you believe in a big religion, he’s a very real fallen angel that “makes you do bad things” and got you kicked out of paradise. I guess the semantic drift that the word has is that it means either some true, often immoral, desire or temptation that either we or society doesn’t approve of giving in to.

Exway Flex (Riot) Review (600+ km)

In this post we’re going to have a close look at the Exway Flex with the belt-driven Riot drive train. I am in no way sponsored or affiliated and bought the board myself.

Mocking HTTP Connections in Golang Tests (scraping and API)

In this article we’re going to have a look at how to mock http connections while running your tests on your golang application.

Since we do not want to call the real API or crawl an actual site to make sure that our application works correctly, we want to make sure that our application works within our defined parameters.

How to Fix: Adobe Premiere JPG / Still Image Glitch

This week I tried to get a still image into one of my videos, but they showed some weird artifacts.

I use Adobe Premiere Pro CC (2020) for most of my editing and it was really bothersome to figure this one out. In fact I don’t really consider this solved, but only “worked around”.

Updating PHP 5 (or any other) Apps with Docker

PHP5, released in 2014, has reached its end of life in 2018, but many hosters continued to support it. If you have any custom PHP applications, you might still be running them on a server that has a PHP5 runtime.

The upgrade path for these applications might not be obvious, but I found a way that should make it easier, so in this article we’re going to have a look at running PHP simultaneously with PHP5 and PHP7 using docker and docker-compose.

How to set up an SSH Honeypot (low interaction) and live stream it

I recently found a streamer on twitch that had an interesting title:

Watch people trying to hack my computer

and the stream was just an endless list of unsuccessful login attempts to the bespoken server. In the description it said:

Can you teach me how to do this? No.

So naturally I had to do a bit of research and try out streaming some failed SSH login attempts into one of my servers. In this post we’ll have a look at how to set up your own honeypot with pshitt and if you’re interested you can stream the attempts to twitch as well 😉

Showing Indentation, Spaces, Tabs (Invisibles) in Various Editors

Invisibles are the characters that are in your editor anyways, but they are usually not displayed with anything but empty space or simply completely invisible, like line breaks. Showing invisibles in Vi or Vim can easily be done by changing the vim config with the list and listchars properties. Other editors have config files or an easy to use UI like Atom or Visual Studio Code.

Raspberry Pi (4) Kiosk / Wall Display / Dashboard

This post is about setting up a display with a Raspberry PI or similar computer using Linux, potentially raspbian / n00bs on an sd card and a screen. The Raspberry Pi 4 has some respectable specs is quiet, displays up to 4k and has Wi-Fi which makes it a pretty great dashboard display source.

How to quit vim / nano / any text editor on Linux

How do I quit vim?!

Has become a running gag of the computer nerd community for a few decades now, but recently I was asked by a fellow developer how to quit vim. Colour me surprised when what I saw in the terminal was not vim, but nano. After a few days of procrastination and consideration I thought it wouldn’t be too much to write a post about how to quit different text editors.

CSS RGB/CMYK Channel Splitting

Channel splitting is a glitchy effect usually seen in videos or for text overlays that have an intentionally erronous look about them. In this post we’re going to implement some of them with CSS, also as animated effects.