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Extra frequencies for your Motorola XT series

Extra frequencies for your Motorola XT series radios

ICOM ID-51 home-made Data cable

The official cables are expensive and mysterious blackboxes. Let’s create our own ICOM data cable for a few bucks and learn how it works.

Matching Baofeng and Motorola DCS/CTCSS privacy codes on PMR 446

While all PMR 446 radios are supposed should be working together seemlessly, it requires some matching for Motorola and Baofeng radios to work together. Let’s see how to do it easily

From Docker to Kubernetes using Minikube remotely

From Docker to Kubernetes using Minikube with remote API access.

Play with Rust easily

Unlike intepreted languages, Rust requires a bit of scaffholding before you can compile and run some code. This article show a few other options to play, experiment and learn more about Rust

Focus! Never click around Github or Gitlab again

Developers spend too much time clicking around… and they hate that. This article shows how you can, in less than 5 minutes, save twice that at least, every day!

SRTOOL & Deterministic builds are back to Kusama & Polkadot

Deterministic builds are back, srtool is now usable again in order to build and verifiy Substrate and Polkadot WASM blobs used as runtime.

Registrars updates

Since its first implementation around the end of 2019, the Registrar #1 (which is now a set of registrars), has evolved a lot. This article looks back on those evolutions as well as at the current stand. I will go through the challenges I ran into and how they have been solved. This includes a few dedicated web services, the use of a BPM engine as well as new functionnalities recently added to Polkadot, Kusama and the Westend chains.

Registrar #1 and offline keys

While using a website such as https://polkadot.js.org/apps/#/ or the https://github.com/polkadot-js/extension are convenient, those do not provide the best internet isolation to ensure the maximum security for your keys. This article explains how to use subkey to sign challenges for Registar #1.

IPFS and Docker

How can docker help to get an IPFS node up and running? This article shows how easy and simple it can be to host an IPFS node on a remote server.