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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 molecules that

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 time that

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Update: I no longer use Dokku and the Let's Encrypt plugin is no longer maintained or working.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 end of

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'm using the dokku-recommended Ubuntu

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. Update 2016-03-08: