You could call it a blog

  • Take a btrfs snapshot on each successfull boot
    8 February 2017

    To try and keep my system bootable no matter what happens I use systemd to run a script that takes a btrfs snapshot and configures bootctl to add that snapshot into the boot menu.

  • Doing a webping
    16 January 2017

    The question came up if our web server had some downtime during deploys.

  • LibreOffice in gnome wayland scale issue
    26 October 2016

    I loaded Libre Office in Gnome shell using the Wayland display server .. it was so wrong it was usable

  • Tmux commands in all windows and all panes
    23 September 2016

    Before I exit a tmux session I like to close down all the stuff, this usally means entering each pane of each window hitting Ctl-c a few times and typing ‘exit’ alot.. I can do that using bash like so:

  • Trying out Elixir for simple http
    19 September 2016

    Elixir sounds like it will solve many of the worries I have as a ruby developer, concurrency comes out-the-box and there seems to be good drive behind it.

  • Steam on Arch Linux
    7 September 2016

    I use Steam on my arch linux machine.

  • Run SQL for every DB in MySQL
    25 August 2016

    Unfortunately I have to use MySQL at $work, we have a tonne of databases (multi-tenant app), to track down problems I somethings need to run some SQL on every DB .. heres a some bash I threw together to run some SQL on each:

  • Non HiDPI apps like dia in a HiDPI World
    3 August 2016

    I sometimes use dia to plan software or processes (oldie but a goodie)

  • SSH Forward + IPTables
    25 September 2015

    When making changes to our project, we commit into git and then build the whole app, this includes multiple services. For this we make use of docker and selenium.

  • Use google music from the command line
    4 August 2015

    I like google music its an inexpensive and reliable service with a fairly good collection of music and I can upload my collection too.