Linux

Server response time (TTFB) is an important factor in SEO and should not be overlooked. Site owners need to understand what TTFB is, why it’s important, and how to measure and improve it. In this article, we’ll discuss how to reduce server response times on Wordpress for improved SEO. What is Server Response Time (TTFB)? Server response time (TTFB) is the amount of time it takes for a web server to respond to a user’s request....

Sometimes you need a particular version of python, in this guide we will go over how to install python 3.8 on Ubuntu or any other specific version of Python on Ununtu. First install the prerequisites sudo apt update sudo apt install software-properties-common Add the official source for python to your sources list sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa Run the python 3.8 install command sudo apt install python3.8 Verify python 3.8 is installed...

Linux battery life on laptops is known not to be great. Due to the need to test on so many types of hardware, it isn’t feasible for distros to be optimized for it out of the box. Here are my notes on what I’ve done to optimize Ubuntu battery life on my laptop, while some of the install commands will be specific to Ubuntu / Debian derived distros, the tips will work on any distro....

I have some PDFs which I need to get typed up into text to edit. I decided to go with Tesseract OCR as it seems to be the best tool for the job. Here are the steps for how to use Tesseract OCR to convert PDFs to text. Installation First things first, get Tesseract CLI installed. Follow the instructions here, these are linked to from the official Tesseract docs. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr-devel sudo apt-get update sudo apt install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng Note: the package didn’t properly place the eng....

Here is a quick script I have written in Bash to get URL status codes. An application in a container I have been working was failing to retrieve a file from somewhere on the internet. I needed to determine if the issue was with the container(possibly networking related) or the application. I threw together this little reusable script utilizing curl.

One of my recent projects has been containerizing a .NET Core 2.1 application which uses DinkToPDF for producing PDFs. I always default to Alpine for my containers. Here I’ll describe using DinkToPDF on Alpine Linux. At the time of writing, the current version of Alpine in 3.12, that is what I started with. My Alpine Linux Environment I am doing my testing in a container built from mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/aspnet:2.1-alpine3.12 The Issue with DinkToPDF This error was getting throw each time I tried to use Dink....