Introduction

This is the first article in a series of upcoming articles on designing and creating an Application Monitoring System. An Application Monitoring System (AMS) is a system that can monitor performance of other running applications. I am building this application component by component from scratch and I will publish it here on this blog. In this post, I talk about how to create and run services that provide application performance metrics using Java, Spring Boot and Docker.

Introduction

Most mainstream web-browsers including Firefox now-a-days come with a feature where your browser sends your preferred colorshemes to websites when you visit them. If the website supports this feature, then you are presented with a light or dark version of the website based on your preference. In this post I will share how to manually configure it in Firefox.

prefers-color-scheme

prefers-color-scheme is a CSS feature that can be used by websites to detect if the browser has requested a light or a dark color theme. And if your browser sends the preference of dark theme and if a visited website chooses to implement an alternate dark CSS colorsheme then the web content will be displayed in dark mode. Here are the allowed values for prefers-color-scheme:

Introduction

The command line has always seemed to me something that is both fascinating and under-utilized to a large extent at the same time. Creating a document on the command line is easy and sometimes it is more straightforward than using WYSIWYG tools like LibreOffice or MS Office or Google Docs. In this post I share how I use Pandoc, Vim and Markdown for creating good professional grade documents on the command line.

Introduction

I have been using a Mac at my work for a few months now and there’s one command line utility in MacOS that I am quite impressed with called open. In this post I talk about a similar alternative in Linux world.

What is open?

From the open man page:

Open a file or folder.

The open command opens a file (or a folder or URL), just as if you had double-clicked the file’s icon.

Introduction

I like the fact that Debian does not do a lot of customizations over the upstream packages by default but this also means extra work for you for setting up things after installing Debian on the PC. The upside is that you get to customize things exactly the way you like it. It definitely helps to have a list to start with and this post lists down some of the customizations I make after installing a fresh copy of Debian.