Mapbox for flutter is still not documented well enough. I’ve spent almost a day until I had something working. With this blog post I hope to help the next ones, so that they don’t need so much time setting it up.
Matomo is a replacement for google analytics which is free when you self-host it. Honestly, I underestimated the effort it takes. Turns out it needs php, mysql and fastcgi running, since I’m running a python/postgres stack it adds quite a bit of clutter onto the server…
But anyway: here you are, the following guide installs Matomo with…
I wanted to get rid of AWS secrets manager - both because it was eating 7% of my hosting costs (2.42$ per month, but still :) and I wanted to get a bit more independent of AWS.
The number one alternative is Hashicorp Vault. From the same company who built Terraform, Consul and Vagrant.
The learning curve is not steep - I followed their excellent getting started guide. But if you want to have it even quicker, then use this guide.
For this how-to I chose:
Exchanging any of those is a piece of cake really… but in order to keep this document brief I’ll stick to this choice.
Over the past 2 weeks I struggled quite a bit to come up with a setup to make my flutter app work together with my flask web app. There’s not much documentation online, I’m wondering if I’m the only one with that setup. I doubt that, as Flutters web capabilities are still somehow limited and you’d normally want to have a “full blown” flask web app alongside your flutter app.
What I wanted is to have a login possibility with social login providers (Google, Facebook, Apple ID, via Oauth) both on Flutter and on my Flask app and when a user uses both web and app they would use the same profile and settings.
Where I was mentally stuck was this: How do I guarantee that the OAuth identity which the flutter app would send to my flask api backend can be trusted? Every app can be decompiled, you can put a proxy in front of it or whatever other hacks the internet provides. So flask needs a mechanism to double-check what flutter just sent.
Using Firebase auth in Flask is currently under-documented on the web. I spent hours scraping together the relevant information which, I hope, I can present here in a good form - in order to improve the world and achieve world peace!
For a Flask app I’m running nginx on an Amazon Linux 2. To install letsencrypt (auto renewing SSL certificate):
This howto…
This howto assumes that you
I’ve rooted many smartphones before. Probably about 6. But I never had so much problems as with Samsung A50. To spare you the frustrations I went through, I did a little writeup.
The exact phone model I have is SM-A505FN but I guess it work with any A50 model.
What works: basically everything, including fingerprint scanner
What doesn’t: Family Link
I’m trying to get text extraction from pdfs working on lambda for a little fun project of mine.
Now. There are a lot of possibilities how to extract text from pdfs using python but nothing really worked for me:
Finally I ended up using xpdfs pdftotext. Sadly I couldn’t install xpdf on AWS EC2 (Amazon Linux), so I needed to compile it, but turned out it is quite straigtforward: