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Latest — 05 Aug 2026

Getting SonarQube Community Edition to Comment on GitHub PRs

SonarQube's free Community Build cannot decorate pull requests — no inline comments, no Quality Gate summary on the PR. That's officially gated to Developer Edition and above (paid). There's an unofficial, community-maintained plugin that unlocks it anyway: mc1arke/sonarqube-community-branch-plugin. Not supported by SonarSource, no upgrade

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Setting Up OneDev on Windows Without Docker (Because Docker Wouldn't Start)

This is specifically a Windows story. Wanted to try OneDev — a self-hosted Git server with built-in CI/CD and Kanban boards, lighter than GitLab, more all-in-one than Gitea — on a Windows box. The official install path is docker run ..., which assumes Docker just works. Mine didn't: Docker Desktop

Meta's Marketing Messages API for WhatsApp — What I Got Wrong

Spent a chunk of a day chasing a staging bug that turned out to be me trusting old journal notes instead of the actual docs. Writing this down so I don't repeat it. (Not to be confused with WhatsApp's simple click-to-chat links — I wrote about those

How to Connect Your AI Assistant to Google Search Console and Analytics

I wanted Claude to pull real Search Console and GA4 data instead of me screenshot-ting graphs into a chat every time. Turns out it's a five-minute setup once you know where the permission actually lives — most of the friction is that it's split across two completely

Basic Memory MCP

I got tired of re-explaining my project to Claude every new chat. Same context, same background, every single time. Basic Memory fixes that. It's an MCP server. Instead of keeping memory locked inside one chat session, it writes everything to plain markdown files on your own disk. Next

Secure VPS in Ubuntu 20.04

SSH ssh [email protected] -i C:\Users\Madindo\.ssh\my_vps_root <aside> 💡 i can make config file like in linux for the config ssh in windows </aside> User adduser madindo deluser madindo {--remove-home} {--backup} ssh madindo@ip -i C:\Users\madin\.ssh\

The art of thinking in systems

Systems thinking is being able to examine and analyze ourselves and the things around us with the express purpose of being able to improve upon them. It requires us to be more observant and aware of the things that impact us, in both big and small ways, and then be

Unable to login as admin in ghost

So I made a fresh installation of Ghost, and I migrated the data. In a few days, I was not be able to log in as admin; it took 1 minute just to get the response from this POST /ghost/api/admin/session. First, I thought it was an nginx

The 5am Club - Robin Sharma

The truth is that every challenging event you've experienced, each toxic person that you've encountered and all the trials you've endured have been perfect preparation to make you into the person that you now are. You needed these lessons to activate the treasures, talents

Limitless

If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them. It’s critical to identify your limiting beliefs, stories, and deeply held beliefs. attitudes, and assumptions about yourself and what’s possible. Examining, excavating, and expunging those beliefs is the first step to having