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I stumbled upon the Zynthian  open source synthesizer platform project some months ago and found myself visiting the site even more often than hacker news. Eventually, I ended up buying a Zynthian build kit and did not suffer buyer's remorse since I was looking for a new hobby project anyways which would not be at least entirely coding. Zynthian is in a nutshell, an open source synthesizer platform. It comes bundled with a set of open source Linux synths, effects, and other audio software. The kit I ordered contains a Raspberry Pi, an RPI sound-card, touchscreen, some audio ports, and encoders. All this is connected via a purpose-built printed circuit board. I was a bit rusty on my soldering skills so while waiting for the parts to arrive, I practiced a bit on some old hardware salvaged from my parent's farm. I just merely desoldered and soldered components as a way to practice The actual building was relatively easy, mostly because of the fantastic instructions provided

I was one of the presenters in a recent event held in Turku, Tampere and Helsinki. We demoed how to build and deploy a simple app to kubernetes. My part was the frontend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wjmI2lnNo

In an earlier blog post, I talked about flame graphs and how I implemented those for a Scala app. Ever since I have been thinking if it would be possible to grab a flame graph from a container. Some time ago I made that happen inspired by this post.  It was not enough for me, I wanted to go deeper. I wanted also the profiler to run inside a container profiling another container. So I ended up making this It uses the JVM  async-profiler tool so not quite the same that in my previous blog post but the results are similar. To profile another container, you can use the one-liner and replace the $CONTAINER_ID with the id of the running JVM container you want to profile, $PERF_IMAGE as the built image id of the described container and  $JAVA_PID with the, you guessed it, the JVM pid inside the subject container. You also need to set a couple of runtime variables on the docker host as described in the async-profiler setup instructions. There are a couple of drawbacks. Firstly you n

The app is as typical a mobile app one could think of. The main feature is to show a customizable product catalog for a set of small business customers. From that catalog, they can filter out and order products for delivery. In other words, it is an online shop. The mobile app is made with React native with both IOS and Android releases. There is no native code specific to the app besides some third-party libraries which are used. The key libraries that are used in addition to react-native ones are firebase-react-native, redux and react-native-elements. Yet again, nothing special here. The first versions were developed and distributed via Expo. I found it very well suited for the first phases of development, running and debugging were straightforward. The customer did agree since trying out new versions was convenient especially for IOS users because alpha version distribution for that particular ecosystem is tedious, to say the least While developing the application I stumbled u

I have the bad habit of watching or listening something from my computer before I go to sleep while already lying in bed. Often when I am on the verge of falling asleep, it is frustrating to get up and turn off the computer. Usually, I put on a timed shutdown so that when I fall asleep, the computer won't wake me up in the middle of the night. However, I wanted to have some other way which does not involve getting up from bed nor having to light up any screen (like my phone) which would interfere with the process I thought about the problem from time to time and it was earlier this year when I bumped into an Instructables  post in which  somebody had made a remote controller for his PC with Arduino as a "keyboard". I thought I would do something similar to solve the shutting down problem because as it happened, I had a spare Arduino lying around After playing around with it for a while, I found out that in my Arduino Uno was lacking HID support so it was not going to

Recently I have been doing a cross-platform mobile app with React native and also a web app frontend with Vue.js. As a reluctant java bull, building front-ends with something different than Java has been indeed something I have been looking for for a while. The React native mobile app is something I'm developing solo and is for a customer in importing tools for machine workshops business. It is a pretty straightforward shopping catalog-like app with a focus for customizable catalogs for each customer. I have found it to be pretty much perfect for a first project, the domain is simple and there are plenty of ready-made stuff and example applications where to look for inspiration On the project where Vue is being used, the old technology was Angular, versions 1 and 4. There was a decision to use Vue for the new front-end components and I was fortunate enough to be in the team making the first one and participate in building a template project that would be used by all new front