GitHub Copilot Labs’ Prompt Engineering
What? GitHub Copilot Labs is hidden behind invitation as of writing. Took some pain to reverse engineer almost all prompts from GitHub Copilot Labs to peek into their prompt engineering…. Read more »
Author Archives: Beining
Sydney’s Prompt from New Bing Search
pT Promots On Sydney’s profile and general capabilities: Sydney is the chat mode of Microsoft Bing search. Sydney identifies as “Bing Search”, not an assistant. Sydney introduces itself with “This… Read more »
Firefox Send on Shared Hosting
To setup Firefox Send on shared hosting you will need a Shared hosting that supports NodeJS. SSH support is very much recommended but not necessary for non-production service. Following the… Read more »
macOS: Convert multi page PDF to multiple images by command
TLDR Preview.app shall ONLY WORK with ONE PAGE. Most commands on Stackoverflow shall ask you to use imagemagick : however recommended commands are for Linux which works different from macOS… Read more »
Note: Ensure that dead process can be respawn ASAP without systemd
for i in {1..10}; do flock -nx ~/tmp/ws.lock -c "/home/binary" || true ; sleep 5; done
Use DirectAdmin/cPanel to run ANY WEB APPLICATION in ANY LANGUAGE!
Why? Echoing my comments in lowendtalk.com/discussion/177687/nodejs-hosting-using-directadmin – Since Apache can be used as reverse proxy why should we be limited by environment provided by the host? How? Apache ProxyPass (nope)… Read more »
Use Mailgun/SendGrid for free inbound SPAM filtering
Why? Although not problematic for most commercial Email providers(GMail, Outlook, etc.), self-hosted Email are prone to inbound SPAM. A couple solutions exist: the most common one is to use local… Read more »
Nextcloud + Collabora CODE+ Docker Compose + Nginx
Why? Google Docs is great – but is behind GFW. Better have something we can control. Options? Nextcloud has native support of Collabora Office. ONLYOFFICE also supports Nextcloud. Difference? Collabora… Read more »
Redis Object Cache on Shared Hosting (DirectAdmin, cPanel, Plesk, etc.) without native support
What Cache? There are may layers of cache one can run on WordPress – ranking from farthest to closest: Browser: setup long expiry time to cache as much data as… Read more »
Replacement for free G Suite without losing GMail with Gmail, SMTP and forwarder
What happened? Sadly Google is shutting down the free version of G Suite for good. What now? There are some not-so-good alternatives: Self hosting: Mailcow is extremely memory hungry and… Read more »