Category Archives: Computers

Running Spring Boot application with springdoc-openapi behind NGINX

Posted on April 25, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Suppose you want all requests prefixed with /api to be forwarded by NGINX to spring boot. There are 2 common options: So when a request like GET /api/foo is made when it reaches spring boot, spring boot sees a request … Continue reading →

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Startup Dilemmas

Posted on April 18, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

After running my own startup for a few months there are a few recurring dilemmas I have realized for an aspiring entrepreneur: As with any dilemma there is no right or wrong answer to above. that’s what makes it a … Continue reading →

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Not able to play audio in Java

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Siddharth Jain
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GCP vs AWS

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

I will cut the chase by saying GCP is better. Here’s why I think so: In terms of pricing and customer service I think both are similar (in fact GCP seems just a bit cheaper) so my review is based … Continue reading →

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Windows Security Tips

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Probably the most important tool is Windows Defender. Press Win+R followed by wf.msc and check all the inbound rules. Delete ones you don’t recognize – it can be difficult. Useful powershell commands: this is equivalent of ss -tpln on Linux. … Continue reading →

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10 Svelte Tips for a Backend Engineer

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Svelte is currently my framework of choice for frontend web development. Further Reading

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letsencrypt/certbot tips

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Siddharth Jain

Letsencrypt uses certbot for certificate management. If your certificate is not auto renewing follow the runbook below: we see that certbot is scheduled to auto-renew I see there are failures when certbot attempted to renew the certificate in the past: … Continue reading →

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Static vs. Dynamic linking in C++

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

3 Power Tools You Must Know on Linux to debug DLL (.so) not loading

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Installing ImageMagick on WSL

Posted on October 15, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

First I just downloaded the pre-built binary as described here but trying to run it gives this: So the next step is to install FUSE [1] but still no luck: next run this [2]: after this it works:

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Introducing Honeybadger.bot: Java Class Registry

Posted on June 10, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

What is the biggest pain point you encounter with Java development? For me, its debugging those ClassNotFound exceptions and not knowing what dependency I need to add to my pom.xml in order to use a class [1,2]. Fortunately there is … Continue reading →

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