Here is how to convert text files from one character encoding to another in GNU/Linux: The -f parameter denotes “from” and -t parameter denotes “to” character set.//IGNORE means the “iconv” will ignore any characters that are not available in the target character set. While “//TRANSLIT” means the converter will attempt to substitute characters that are […]
Lorem Picsum branded as Lorem Ipsum for photos offers API for retrieving random photos. The usage is fairly simple, one only have to access the API URL, for example to retrieve a 300×200 random photo, one just need to access this url: https://picsum.photos/300/200/?random Visit Lorem Picsum website for more API parameters.
Brotli is a new compressed data format developed by Google for compressing web data. It is documented in RFC7932. Currently, almost all modern web browser support Brotli which compressed better and faster than Deflate. Brotli is can be enabled in most popular web server including: Apache HTTPD – through mod_brotli (for release after 2.4.26) Nginx […]
The previously featured checkip.mypapit.net has been upgrade to JSON. You just need to add /json parameter to get ip address and country code in json format. http://checkip.mypapit.net/json/ Check http://checkip.mypapit.net/json/ now As always you can also access the website using ‘cURL’, ‘wget’ or any programming language which supports .json.
This post is rather a note to myself just in case the next time I want to recompile a new nginx server (I recently compiled a new nginx release in order to enable support for the new brotli encoding and http2 protocol) The exact file that you need to change is : /nginx-1.13.7/src/http/ngx_http_header_filter_module.c Here’s a […]
Andy Proehl has compiled a collection of “Maps of Strange Borders” on his flickr account. His maps are accompanied by description and historical accounts on the reason behind the border are laid that way. Though most of the maps feature strange borders within United States, the most interesting one lies on the other part of […]