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Managing Docker Volumes

Docker volumes are great, but it's not obvious how to move them from place to place.

critchat #1: “Speechless” Submissions

This is the first (multi-part) episode of critchat. In it, I read submissions to my first prompt, “Speechless”: Write a story with a conversation without using any dialogue. critchat #1.

A Simple Debian Autopatcher

Let’s say you have an automation tool that patches your servers. What patches the server hosting the automation tool? Is it, as the ancients believed, turtles all the way

dockit: Container Hopping

Docker containers are awesome little throwaway environments. Often I like to jump into a container to test something out, like installing a project from scratch, swapping runtimes without needing a version manager, or trying something new without gumming up my base system. It’s

The Toaster Diaries #0: The Parts

I’ve recently come into the opinion that every hardware enthusiast should own at least two machines: one good one — and one really crap one. The reasons for owning a

Taming Your Linux WorkSpace

So you’ve spun up a fresh Linux Workspace and discovered in short order that it is ugly as sin. Fret not, this is as configurable a Linux machine as any — but in different ways than you might be used to. Enable SSHFortunately, Linux

A Hobbyist’s Guide to Amazon WorkSpaces

Amazon WorkSpaces are virtual desktops in the cloud. As designed, they’re an office sysadmin’s dream: a simple thin client, integration with Active Directory, and the ability to rebuild WorkSpaces from scratch with the click of a button. But how are they as

Live Edit Pip Packages

Quick tip for those of you who have just discovered a pip package you’d like to fix or otherwise contribute to. sudo pip install -e . This command installs the pip package in an “editable” way (in fact, -e is the short form of

Passively Yours, Nginx

I’m starting on some new projects soon, projects I would very much like to be stateless and highly available. Partially because I like to think of myself as a grown-up developer now who wants to code things the way they ought to be;

Pixel-Perfect WebM

WebM is probably the future, but like all things containing the word “web,” there’s an element of nuance and surprise that emerges while working with it. VP9 is supported pretty much everywhere that matters — even Edge manages to produce a video UI, although

Simple Terminal ‘iso14755’ Error

If you’ve tried updating suckless.org’s Simple Term, st, and run into this error: In file included from x.c:61: config.h:180:42: error: ‘iso14755’ undeclared here (not in a function) { TERMMOD, XK_I, iso14755, {.i = 0} }, ^~~~~~~~ make: *** [Makefile:22:

Jenkins in a Box

I have a few deeply held beliefs when it comes to software. If you do something more than twice, it should be automated.It’s always DNS.Build your code in containers.Even AWS and I seem to agree on that last point. It

Emacs Cloudformation Mode

After spending some time working in AWS Cloudformation and running cfn-lint manually, I decided to incorporate it into my Emacs config. Here’s a basic cloudformation-mode for DOOM Emacs, complete with a flycheck checker for cfn-lint: ;; cloudformation-mode (define-derived-mode cfn-mode yaml-mode "Cloudformation" "Cloudformation template mode.

Batch Filesystem Events

inotifywait is a handy utility that listens for filesystem events you specify and prints them to standard out. This is particularly useful if, say, you want to automatically redeploy a website whenever something changes. (Jekyll comes with this functionality out-of-the-box, but if you have