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A Christmas Gift for Language Learners

In this post, I announce my newest tool for language learners. As long as I am learning a new language, I plan to maintain it. What is Laverna? What does it solve? Laverna is a sleek command-line tool that transforms text into spoken audio. All it needs is a config file to read. Whether you’re practicing Thai greetings, perfecting your Japanese pronunciation, or working on English phrases, Laverna can boost your productivity when you want to store individual language audios. ...

December 24, 2024 · 2 min · 232 words · Talha Altinel
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Catching Slow Go Tests

The Problem Hello, in this short and sweet post, I will show a handy bash script to catch slow go tests based on their durations and their go cache status, but first we need to define the problem. Our current problem is when I run go test -v ./... we get simply huge output that is overwhelming with subtest outputs as well as t.Parallel pauses/continues. Plus, my inner OCD strikes when some things are always cached and some things are always not cached, I could never guess why and I never have time to look at plain log that has 1 million lines. ...

November 8, 2024 · 4 min · 656 words · Talha Altinel
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Packaging Go for Arch Linux Tutorial

Getting Started In this tutorial, I will be showing how to package Go application for Arch Linux User Repository (AUR). We will be opening an AUR account and go through PKGBUILD template and follow Arch’s Wiki guidelines for Go. By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to upload your own Arch package that uses Go to AUR. The Requirements Git Go Arch Linux x86_64 AUR account Setting up AUR account and SSH key We will fill up the username and the email in this form, as well as the most important one public ssh key. The rest are optional. ...

September 17, 2023 · 7 min · 1326 words · Talha Altinel
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Arch Installation for Beginners

Getting Started Hello everyone, in this blog I will help you bootstrap your arch linux setup in 5-10 minutes, and teach you where you can look into when you need help. Arch Linux has been one of the most difficult distros to setup until the new convenient archinstall script. I will be using archinstall script in this guide. It is known with its non-exhaustive user friendly TUI installation phase. First of all, ensure you install the ISO from Download Page, Arch is used within the whole world so don’t be scared of picking the closest mirror to yourself. All the mirrors have SSL/TLS enabled, the contents are the same you don’t need to worry about it. Also archlinux-x86_64.iso and archlinux-YYYY.MM.DD-x86_64.iso correspond to the same ISO, there is no difference. ...

September 14, 2023 · 8 min · 1497 words · Talha Altinel
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Broke Captain's Kubernetes Cluster Guide(super simple & convenient cost)

The Intro In this guide, I will be showing how to set up a simple Kubernetes(K3S) cluster which will have 1 master node and 2 worker nodes on Hetzner Cloud. My main goal is to make newcomers’ transition to Kubernetes very smooth as a person who suffered enough with complex tutorials/bills and didn’t get enough chance to poke a Kubernetes cluster. This tutorial should be applicable to any cloud provider but be warned pricing would be extremely different. If you come to learn Kubernetes, this could be your starting point to set up your own cluster and get started poking around with an actual production-ready cluster with k3s. ...

December 5, 2021 · 7 min · 1328 words · Talha Altinel