Mon 20 Mar 2023 The news was broken to all Twitch employees that there was going to be a mass layoff that would nuke 1/5th of Twitch’s workforce, Just over 400 employees. We were not given a date that this would happen we were just told that it would be by the end of the week or early the next week. Fri 24 Mar 2023 The day started with an announcement that Twitch would layoff 1/5th of its workforce....
Introduction Hugo is a static site generator, a tool that allows us to pre-compile our website into static HTML, CSS and JS. The main benefit of using such methods is speed. A Static site takes a lot less time to load than a site that uses databases. For more information on HUGO read my other post Hugo Static Site Generator Prerequisites Git Installing HUGO Official steps The HUGO binary is what we will use throughout the creation of our project to initially setup our site then create posts etc… This step will vary depending on your operating system and distribution....
Introduction Minecraft is a great game and when it comes to multiplayer, a dedicated server is the way to go (here’s why1). Myself and a few others recently decided to start playing this game again, and I took the opportunity to deploy the server in my lab. A Minecraft server does not require a ton of resources to run, However from my experience the more resources you can throw at it the better, especially when you start to introduce mods and more than a few players....
Introduction WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux which means we have the Linux kernel inside of windows. This is huge news for developers or people who just want to try Linux. Prerequisites Enable virtualisation in BIOS Setup Open Powershell in Administrator mode wsl --install You may be required to restart the device, I Highly recommend you do Go to the Microsoft store and search for a Linux distribution. I prefer to use the “Ubuntu” distro....
Introduction Hugo is a static site generator, which basically means it’s a tool that allows us to pre-compile all of our website into static HTML, CSS and JS. The main benefit of using such methods to crate a site is speed. A Static site takes a lot less time to load than a site that uses databases for example. Disadvantages Some of the disadvantages I have come across are as follows:...