Zane Chua

How do you ensure your mobile application does not crash and burn when you need to make breaking changes to your backend code, which may including updating the graphql schema or even REST API endpoints or more? It is easy to achieve on a web…

Some of my projects are leveraging the jsonwebtoken package to issue JWTs as access tokens to our users. The package itself requires private and public key pairs to be generated and accepts a few types of keys. One of them is an EC key pair with the…

Kaniko is a pretty popular tool for building container images today as it does not require any kind of privilege or root permission to build containers unlike Docker-in-Docker. Having the ability to build container images without privilege while…

Versioning and releasing an application can be a time-consuming and complex process, especially when it involves tasks like determining the correct version to bump, adding appropriate tags, syncing the version back to different branches, and more…

Configuring the plugin for in Gatsby works pretty well except for the fact that if your line of code overflows into the next line, the default configuration that's provided does not cater for that. I went digging through the source code, through…

Ensuring code standards in your code repositories can be tricky, there are a few solutions that you can employ such as using hooks together with a tool like . However, there may be situations where the hooks are not enabled on the engineer's machine…

My three most recent builds were using ASRock Rack server boards. The two boards and the use the module. The one that is different is the which uses the module. I looked around and couldn't find a place to buy the module, so I decided to make…

Journey I was working on some projects in NextJS and wanted to containerise these projects so that they are easily transportable but hit into this snag where the values would be directly compiled into the javascript bundle and stored in the…

Journey In almost any project, you'll want to have some form of testing to ensure that the appliance is working correctly. For this case, we're testing that the built api container can start, connect to the database and redis endpoints and execute…

I needed our dev and testers at KopiRun's to access certain resources securely without having to expose those resources publicly. I think the default choice for organisations would be to use VPNs and wireguard is a very popular choice these days due…

Continuing from part 1 of the setup. Solve GitLab Runner Setup Install Helm Prepare the cluster to connect The following cluster certificate connection type is deprecated and disabled by default in GitLab 15.0. Connecting the cluster to GitLab is not…

I was looking back at my Universal Server post and realised I mentioned I would talk more about the services that I run in my HomeLab but never did. I pretty much FORGOT. Well, here it is now. Services OPNsense PowerChute Network Shutdown (PCNS…

This has been on my todo list for a while now for KopiRun. I had been using Azure VMs as GitLab runners, but we were trying to keep them under a certain cost, and unfortunately it was not feasible for us to keep the runners on Azure at the kind of…

The first post about reducing build times for xcode was written at Reduce React Native XCode build time. Since then, the author who made has updated the tool and added support for XCFrameworks. This allows it to work with and any XCode project that…

So after using this setup for a good year or so, I have some updates in terms of both hardware and solutions to some of the problems that I was facing with the initial build. Changes Original hardware KEB: Tecware Phantom Elite + Gateron Greens VID…

This is not a new problem that I faced but rather it's one that I solved quite awhile back. I haven't see any articles on the topic and I'm here assuming that everyone can get it working properly? But when I tried to get stack traces to function…

Most ways of how people demonstrate javascript method chaining, is by showing you a class with methods that return the object in itself . You can then subsequently call other methods and continuing chaining. However, that got me thinking. What if my…

Working with new frameworks and relatively "obscure" ones always have the trouble of needing to figure out everything yourself. Recently I had to implement uploads via GraphQL on ApolloServer 3 with Fastify 3. There was no documentation on how to do…

Running test stages for repos or NodeJS repos can be really painful if is taking too long to complete. Even though GitLab suggests you to use a cache configuration to cache the vendor folder so you won't have to wait for to complete everytime…

This is more of a tip to speed up your builds in AppCenter. Have you noticed that your builds are a little slow? The build machines are basically Mac Pro's but we're only getting 3 cores worth of processing power. We can validate this by running the…

This was a tough cookie to crack for me. I've been annoyed with how the iOS builds of the KopiRun app take like 45minutes to build in AppCenter and was trying to figure out a way to cache the that gets compiled when you build the app. For most cases…

You are using AppCenter as your CI/CD tool for your mobile app, and it's great in terms of helping you to distribute the apps to users to test and submitting the application to the Play Store/App Store. However, your build times are absymal and you…

I had some spare 10TB drives due to a previous server build failing and not panning out. I looked at the current available pre-built solutions on the market like Synology and QNAP but was unsatisfied with the pricing especially when you factored in…

I was playing around with Netlify to see how it compared to GitHub pages or GitLab pages, and I must say that I'm geuninely impressed with their free offering. They provide a lot of value for hosting static websites. I might even decide to move this…

This server build has been going on for a while now... like 2 years from planning to what I consider "complete", and it's mainly because I have a list of objectives that I would've liked to achieved with this particular build. This has had me…

I've been working on this tiny turned big sized project on running both MacOS and Windows on a single workstation at the same time. There were a lot of challenges with this build from various usability issues to issues that I faced with my personal…

I've been slowly upgrading my workstation with the relevant hardware and since this is a server board, we don't have modern things like USB3 or HDMI ports. We're left with a VGA port that's uses the onboard gpu to output. I would like to get this…

So I finally had some time and decided to quickly populate the lab page with the equipment that I currently have in my server rack. You'll notice that Lab 2 is still empty, and it will be so until I can head down to the location to record the…

Figured it's time I built a new site considering I never really finished the last one due to life and what not. This site is now built with Gatsby, hosted on GitHub and distributed via CloudFlare. Intending to write up a few posts about the rubbish I…