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D/Tox - Will it cure you or kill you?

D/Tox - Will it cure you or kill you?

For this year's christmas project, I have worked on a little game idea — introducing D/Tox, a game that lets you figure out if you can tell if a molecule is good or bad for you. The game will randomly select 10 out of a set of 6486

A bot that learns how you play rock-paper-scissors

A bot that learns how you play rock-paper-scissors

As a small project, I wrote a bot for learning player patterns when playing rock-paper-scissors using a first-order Markov chain. This is definitely not the first time someone has had this idea, but I still thought I would give it a go. My implementation simply models a combination of computer

Well-brewed tea made easy, thanks to technology!

Well-brewed tea made easy, thanks to technology!

I enjoy Japanese and Chinese loose-leaf tea. A lot. To get the most out of the tea experience, there are many things to take into account. In fact, to have a perfectly brewed tea it should have the following aspects taken care of: * water temperature, * water quantity * water hardness, * tea

Generative Art for Website Backgrounds

Generative Art for Website Backgrounds

Since my personal website Semicolon Software doesn't need to contain much more than a few links into different places on the web, I wanted to make it more interesting by doing some JavaScript experimentation. The result of this is a beautiful piece of randomly generated background art every

Blissful Personal Project Deployment: Dokku + Let's Encrypt = 😁

Blissful Personal Project Deployment: Dokku + Let's Encrypt = 😁

Update: I no longer use Dokku and the Let's Encrypt plugin is no longer maintained or working. Please look for a new solution! If you are like me, you have a ton of personal programming projects lying around from weekend experiments sparked by your latest idea. At the

Running dokku-letsencrypt auto-renewal as a Cronjob

Running dokku-letsencrypt auto-renewal as a Cronjob

With the new letsencrypt:auto-renew command added to my dokku-letsencrypt plugin, it is now super-easy to set up automatic certificate renewal on your host! Here's a guide on how to configure cron to perform a daily check and auto-renewal for your Let's Encrypt certificates. Note: I&

Securing Dokku with Let's Encrypt TLS Certificates

Securing Dokku with Let's Encrypt TLS Certificates

TL;DR: My letsencrypt plugin for dokku makes securing dokku webservers with HTTPS a breeze. Update 2016-01-12: In the meanwhile, my plugin has become the official letsencrypt plugin for dokku. Additionally, some usage and implementation details have changed so I've updated the post to reflect the new status.