Generating New Product Names using Neural Networks

So everyone knows Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Computing, call it what you will, is the new marketing catchphrase for people trying to sell their software products and services. You can be sure if it’s not already baked in then it’s in the roadmap for 2020. It used to be ‘Big Data’, but …

Getting Database and Table Sizes in Postgres

Total Database Size This SQL simply gets the total size of the database in a human readable format. SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(‘postgres’)) as db_size List all Tables This lists all the tables in the database public schema. SELECT tablename FROM pg_catalog.pg_tables WHERE schemaname = ‘public’ Search Schema for Column Name I often need to search all the …

Setting Up a Local Blockchain with Ganache

Why would I want to do this? Interacting with Blockchains and blockchain technology probably seems for most people like a very complex task. How to even get started? Don’t they run on some servers spread across the globe? How would I make a transaction and see the result? Wouldn’t I use to use real money …

Monitoring a Bitcoin Node Using Node-RED

Now my Bitcoin Full Node is fully synchronized and running I thought it would be good to set up some simple monitoring to check it’s still up and up to date with the Bitcoin Blockchain. Bitnodes API Helpfully there’s already a site that monitors all the full nodes and also provides a handy API at …