How to Set Up a Free Minecraft PE Server Using Oracle Cloud in 2025 This is the updated 2025 edition of our original Minecraft PE server guide. We’ve completely revised the tutorial with the latest Oracle Cloud features and Minecraft PE updates. Looking to create your own Minecraft PE server without spending a dime? You’re in the right place! In this guide, I’ll walk you through setting up a completely free Minecraft PE server using Oracle Cloud’s Free Tier. As someone who’s helped numerous gamers set up their servers, I can tell you that Oracle Cloud offers one of the best free solutions available for MinecraftPE today. ...

Kubernetes at Home - From Docker Compose to K3s Are you running a bunch of containers with Docker Compose at home and feeling like you’ve outgrown it? Maybe you’re curious about Kubernetes but worried it might be overkill for your home setup? Well, you’re in for a treat! Today, we’re going to explore how to level up your home lab by migrating from Docker Compose to K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that’s perfect for home environments. ...

Prompt engineering is an emerging discipline that involves developing and optimizing prompts to efficiently use language models (LMs) for a wide range of applications and research topics. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in large language models (LLMs) due to their impressive capabilities in natural language processing tasks, such as language translation, summarization, and question answering. However, LLMs are not perfect and often require specialized skills and techniques to use them effectively. Prompt engineering skills can help researchers and developers to better understand the capabilities and limitations of LLMs and design robust and effective prompting techniques that interface with LLMs and other tools. ...

You’ve just purchased Minecraft Pocket Edition and now you want to play it with your friends. You’ve checked out realms but you’re not ready to shell out ~ 10$ per month for a realm. The better alternative to Minecraft PE Realms is having your own Minecraft PE Server. A server will give you more flexibility and features in terms of customizability to realms and you can invite your entire group of friends or strangers to join the server and have fun together. In this article I’ll show you how you can create your own Minecraft PE server for free.  ...

Introduction I built a Nodejs project over the weekend. Just thought I’d share and guide others with the design and build process of a scalable backend service with Node.js, TypeScript, Nginx and Docker without using any existing Nodejs frameworks. I used the find-my-way router to implement a REST API. And for the database, I’m using PostgreSQL because it’s reliable and scalable relational database. The aim was to build a backend service that can handle thousands of requests per second without any performance degradation. In other words, a highly available Nodejs service with minimal dependencies. Because we all know how fast you can spiral into a dependency hell when using npm packages. ...

The cloud Game Streaming sector is heating up in India. Nvidia recently jumped into the fray with the launch of its own game service called the GeForce Now. The chipmaker has opened its cloud-based game streaming service, which is set to take over Google Stadia in North America and Europe, to memberships. However the GeForce Now in India is still a long way away from becoming a reality. Currently the GeForce Now service is only open to users across Europe and North America. But that does not mean you can not still use GeForce Now in India right now.  ...

Amazon Cognito provides authentication, authorization, and user management for your web and mobile apps. Your users can sign in directly with a user name and password, or through a third party such as Facebook, Amazon, or Google. The two main components of Amazon Cognito are user pools and identity pools. User pools are user directories that provide sign-up and sign-in options for your app users. Identity pools enable you to grant your users access to other AWS services. ...

Running a WordPress blog on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) can be expensive, especially when you have just begun writing or in case it’s just a personal travel blog which gets a few hundred visitors per week. The minimum for which you can get a dedicated server hosting is for at least 5$ a month, which might not be a lot for you, but might be worth a lot to someone else. If you love the command line you’ll probably like to get your hands dirty and start setting up stuff on your own server rather than getting those free WordPress hosting plans. ...

Looking for a lightweight VPN client, but are not ready to spend a monthly recurring amount on a VPN? VPNs can be expensive depending upon the quality of service and amount of privacy you want. A good VPN plan can easily set you back by 10$ a month and even that doesn’t guarantee your privacy. There is no way to be sure whether the VPN is storing your confidential information and traffic logs or not. sshuttle is the answer to your problem it provides VPN over ssh and in this article we’re going to explore this cheap yet powerful alternative to the expensive VPNs. By using open source tools you can control your own privacy. ...

How fun would it be if you were able to monitor the real time temperature and humidity of your home or work location? In this tutorial we’re going to do just that. First of all, we’re going to setup a Raspberry Pi equipped with a DHT-22 Temperature and Humidity sensor to capture real time readings. Then we’re going to push these captured metrics to InfluxDb – a time series database. Finally, we’re going to set up Grafana on our Raspberry Pi to create real time graphs of the temperature and humidity fluctuations. ...