Golang

bz2 File Compression

bz2 file compression isn’t the fastest compression but its performance MB/s and Compression ratio graphs are nearly flat compared to most other compressions. That being said, there is one graph that isn’t often shown and its the memory usage of bz2. To make those others operation in a near flat range, memory is the tradeoff. [...]


Amazon AWS

AWS EC2 + Wireguard

I’m a fan of not leaving common ports like 22 (SSH) or 3306 (MySQL DB) open to the public but really like being able to access those ports from my laptop. I used to use security groups and limit access by IP to my home network. Now, most consumer internet is not static IP but I find providers like comcast do not change the IP very [...]







Networking

WIFI Signal Degrades More Than You Think


Node-RED

Using Node-Red to send commands to Wifi LED Controllers