Category: IT Stuff

  • Oracle Containerization

    Due to circumstances outside my control, I’ve been forced to experiment with containerizing Oracle databases so, I thought, why not use pluggable databases as well since I’m experimenting? So I did. 😂 What I’m worried about is how it handles minor point updates or IF they even have minor point updates. Now, it’s always a…

  • WordPress Security

    After reviewing logs, I’ve decided to block one of the most taken advantage of vectors in hacking my WordPress blog. Namely, WordPress’ xmlrpc.php file. Now, since I’m already using a reverse proxy, and I don’t really like going the plugin route for such a simple block, I just added the ff. code in my Nginx…

  • JetBrains AI

    Since I’ve been a recurrent subscriber of JetBrains’ All Products pack, I have the option to trial its new AI service. I was having fun coding recently so I thought, why not try it? And so I did! To my pleasant surprise, much of my code was already optimized and didn’t need as much of…

  • Netflix Sucks with OSS

    I’ve been using Linux as my main OS on all my machines ever since before the pandemic and I’ve managed to resolve most of the issues or the community may have created solutions to do things I could easily do on Windows such as gaming (i.e. Wine). Now though, since Netflix has earned some points…

  • Week Update

    I’ve been gone for a week since, I was quite busy with programming. It’s really different when I like the task assigned to me 😂. Anyways, as I said, I’ve been busy with a programming task wherein I needed to parse an XML structure with Parent -> Child relationships so it was quite interesting. Anyways,…