For years I have been using VNC for my remote desktop needs. This works usually well enough. The features that I like are:
On the …
As part of my small project of movng my Z-Wave Hub to a Raspberry PI, I got an X728 kit. This has:
The case has holes for wall-mounting.
The Geekworm X728 kit is …
I always had issues remembering how to create releases. So in order to standardise things, I wrote this script:
So whenever I am ready to release I would then just issue the command:
./ghrelease vX.Y.Z
You obviously need git. But also you would need
github-cli.
Your …
So I was looking for a way to version control database schemas, but I never found something that worked for me. I found all these options that never seem to match what I wanted:
At the end, I finally began doing the …
This is the least you need to know to get to use a Python virtual environment.
At its core, the main purpose of Python virtual environments is to create an isolated environment for Python projects. This means that each project can have its own dependencies …
The other day I needed to copy a bunch of files between to servers
in my home network. Because of the volume I wanted to copy the files
without having to go through ssh's encryption overhead. So I
figured I could use netcat for the data transport.
To do …
I made the switch to void linux. Except for compatibility
issues around glibc, it works quite well. Most compatibility
I have worked around with a combination of Flatpaks, chroots and
namespaces.
The high lights of void linux:
systemd …Since now I have a Android TV I put away my HTPC and with that the capability to view DVDs or listen CDs directly.
So I converted my entire CD and DVD library to media files and stored in my home NAS.
Since we are talking hundreds of DVDs and …
Writing shell scripts leaves a lot of room to make mistakes, in ways that will cause your scripts to break on certain input, or (if some input is untrusted) open up security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer.
The simplest step is …
So I finally moved my WordPress web sites to OpenShift.
OpenShift is a cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering from RedHat. And while there is a learning curve I would say that so far it works great.
My implementation is a fully cloud based solution. Makes use of the following services:
My latest weekend project. Making a normal digital camera WIFI enabled.
With the Transcend Wi-Fi SD Card you can convert any digital camera into a Wi-Fi enable camera.
What I did here is to set it up so that it would automatically upload photos whenever I turn the camera on …
So finally took the time to try out a Raspberry Pi. For this weekend project wanted to do something relatively simple. Essentially, I wanted to recreate/enhance the functionality of a TL-WR702N.
The TL-WR702N Nano Router is a neat device but being closed, can not be customized to what I …
Testing, code coverage, style enforcement are all check-in and merge requirements that can be automated and driven from Git.
If you're among the rising number of Git users out there, you're in luck: You can automate pieces of your development workflow with Git hooks. Hooks are a native Git mechanism …
A bunch of stupid SSH tricks that can be useful somehow, somewhere...
This is for the scenario that you know which specific protocol works
to reach a particular host. Usually good to eliminate the delay
for SSH to figure out to switch IP protocols. For …
As usual with any IT system backups are important. This does not change when using a free shared hosting provider. Because it is free, one would argue it is even more important.
For my wordpress web site I used something called cli-exporter. It let's you create "Wordpress" export files from …
Some useful tidbits to use when using the OpenWRT embedded web server (uHTTPD).
uHTTPd supports running Lua in-process, which can speed up Lua CGI scripts. It is unclear whether LuCI supports running in this embedded interpreter. LuCI seems to work fine (if not better) with the embedded Lua …
So one weekend went by and managed to finish up my 0ink.net web site. So now I have:
When using virtualisation it is very common to create template VMs that can be cloned from. This makes deployment much easier than having to install a new VM from scratch. Unfortunately, the cloned VMs lack any Active Directory memberships and the VMs have to be manually added to the AD …
A collection of links for Web-Authoring. This focuses on using Web (HTML and CSS) technologies directly and not through a CMS like Wordpress.