https://rossbrigoli.comCode|Crafthttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/3d-printed-pedalboard-gp-5-editionhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/3d-printed-pedalboard-gp-5-editionFri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMTAbout two years ago, I built myself a 3D-printed guitar pedalboard . It’s been my trusty sidekick ever since—living in my home studio, joining me at band practice, and rocking out with me on stage. For a while, I was ovehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/3d-printed-custom-guitar-pedal-boardhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/3d-printed-custom-guitar-pedal-boardSat, 15 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMTCustom Pedalboard Design on Fusion 360 While finding my way back to playing electric guitar, I found myself buying a bunch of guitar pedals. After having collected a few, it started making a mess on my desktop, and it wahttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/installing-openshift-on-any-infrastructurehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/installing-openshift-on-any-infrastructureMon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTAs of this writing, Assisted Installer is the easiest way to install an OpenShift cluster on a custom/bespoke infrastructure. You do not need to manually deal with ignition files or manually configure the OpenShift instahttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-gitlab-ci-jobs-on-openshift-the-easy-wayhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-gitlab-ci-jobs-on-openshift-the-easy-wayWed, 22 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTRationale Containers offer several benefits and an ideal environment for running GitLab CI jobs. They offer isolation to ensure the job's dependencies and configuration don't interfere with other jobs on the same machinehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-nexus-docker-registry-on-openshifthttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-nexus-docker-registry-on-openshiftMon, 06 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTI have figured out how to make the docker registry/repo of Nexus work on OpenShift. There are not a lot of resources out there that describe how to configure this. So if you are trying to make the Nexus Docker registry whttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/tdd-is-not-a-testing-approachhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/tdd-is-not-a-testing-approachSun, 11 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTTDD stands for Test-Driven Development. Contrary to what I mostly hear from others that it's a testing approach, No, it is not a testing approach. Rather, it's a development practice where tests are used to determine nothttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/five-devsecops-myths-executives-should-knowhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/five-devsecops-myths-executives-should-knowWed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTDevSecOps , a term coined from the combination of "development", "security", and "operations", is a set of practices that aim to integrate security and operations early on in the software development lifecycle. This apprhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/az-gti-equatorial-mode-at-low-latitude-problem-solvedhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/az-gti-equatorial-mode-at-low-latitude-problem-solvedSat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTJust a few weeks ago, I decided to get back into my old hobby, amateur astronomy. I spoke to old astronomy friends to get some tips in buying an ultra-portable telescope and mount. This led me to Skywatcher's AZ-GTI mounhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-delta-3d-printer-rebuildhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-delta-3d-printer-rebuildWed, 20 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT  About 5 years ago, I built a Delta 3d printer from a kit I bought from AliExpress. You will find the details in this post . In that same year, I have been exploring 3D printing and building a 3D-printed electronichttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-4-4-deploying-openshift-4-on-proxmox-vehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-4-4-deploying-openshift-4-on-proxmox-veTue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTPart 4/4 - Deploying Openshift/OKD 4.5 on Proxmox VE Homelab This is the last part of a 4-part series on Running Openshift at Home. Some information here will have some references to the previous part of the series. Pleahttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-3-4-installing-a-two-node-proxmox-ve-clusterhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-3-4-installing-a-two-node-proxmox-ve-clusterSat, 24 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTPart 3 - Installing a Two-Node Proxmox VE Cluster Part 1/4 - Homelab Hardware Part 2/4 - DIY Silent Server Cabinet Part 4/4 - Deploying Openshift 4 on Proxmox VE It all began with a desire to run a full Openshift clusterhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-2-4-diy-ikea-server-cabinethttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-2-4-diy-ikea-server-cabinetFri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTPart 2/4 - Building a Silent Server Cabinet IKEA hack Part 1/4 - Homelab Hardware Part 3/4 - Installing a Two-Node Proxmox VE Cluster  Part 4/4 - Deploying Openshift 4 on Proxmox VE After sourcing the hardware for mhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-1-4-homelab-hardwarehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/running-openshift-at-home-part-1-4-homelab-hardwareThu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMTPart 1/4 - Homelab Hardware Part 2/4 - DIY Silent Server Cabinet Part 3/4 - Installing a Two-Node Proxmox VE Cluster  Part 4/4 - Deploying Openshift 4 on Proxmox VE This is a series of post from building the hardwarhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-4g-lte-antenna-simple-folded-dipolehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-4g-lte-antenna-simple-folded-dipoleSun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTDue to an unfortunate event related to the coronavirus pandemic, I have been repatriated back to the Philippines from Singapore. I have now temporarily relocated to a remote rural town in Cebu where there is no broadbandhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/architecting-systems-like-a-rock-bandhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/architecting-systems-like-a-rock-bandSat, 18 May 2019 00:00:00 GMTIn Software, orchestration often means control, synchronization, mediation and scheduling of decoupled application services in order to fulfill groups of tasks as part of a business processes. In highly distributed systehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-3d-printed-electronic-drumkit-updatehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-3d-printed-electronic-drumkit-updateSun, 20 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTAfter playing my 3d printed drum-kit for a while , I started feeling a bit unsatisfied with some of the parts. I figured I needed a snare drum with a rim shot and a bigger pad area. Also, the hi-hats do not feel like a rhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/jieming-s-router-anomalyhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/jieming-s-router-anomalySun, 13 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTLast night, while randomly watching my router's activities, I found out that it has an active connection to some IP address owned by Amazon and hosted in New York. While trying to do curl request to the server's port 80,https://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-3d-printed-electronic-drum-kithttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/diy-3d-printed-electronic-drum-kitMon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 GMTSource files available in GitHub: https://github.com/rossbrigoli/Tambol Inspired by a 3D printed drum pad by Frank Piesik , I decided to make my own 3D printed drum pads. I have an old cheap Medeli DD402 electrhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/building-a-3d-printer-and-my-3d-printing-adventurehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/building-a-3d-printer-and-my-3d-printing-adventureThu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTI can't believe it was almost 10 years ago since I first heard about the RepRap project . It is an open source hardware project aims at building a self-replicating 3D printer. The concept of open source mechanical hardwahttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/raspberry-pi-hadoop-clusterhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/raspberry-pi-hadoop-clusterTue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMTI am currently in the process of learning Hadoop architecture, administration and the MapReduce programming model. I started reading about Hadoop and took free online courses but there is something missing. I wanted to thttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/smart-socket-a-small-step-to-internet-of-thingshttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/smart-socket-a-small-step-to-internet-of-thingsSun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMTIt was a long weekend and I did not have anyth ing plan n ed . I was on a "couch potato" mode watching 4 movies in a row. It was very unproductive and I was just sitting upright in my bed with a pitcher of water and a sahttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/solution-maxlines-property-in-silverlight-textboxhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/solution-maxlines-property-in-silverlight-textboxThu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMTI have had this requirement since last week about putting a limit on the number of lines you can write in a multiline AcceptsReturn = true TextBox in Silverlight 4 and was disappointed to know that there is currently no https://rossbrigoli.com/blog/timer-for-android-make-a-textview-blinkhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/timer-for-android-make-a-textview-blinkFri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMTI am pretty sure some of you may been through the same problem where you needed a simple periodic timer for your Android app. You may use java.util.Timer but this is not a good choice as this timer creates a new thread fhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/taxi-meter-for-androidhttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/taxi-meter-for-androidSat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMTIt’s been two months now when I started taking a taxi everyday to office. That was after I got assigned to a new office location at Fort Bonifacio. I always take the same route everyday, however the taxi meter seem to dihttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/remove-password-to-unlock-screen-on-android-2-1-phonehttps://rossbrigoli.com/blog/remove-password-to-unlock-screen-on-android-2-1-phoneMon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMTYou must have noticed that after you’ve set-up your your phone for Exchange email synchronization, the phone starts asking for a password every time you need to unlock the screen. You must have also noticed that the unlo