Mopidy is an extensible music server written in Python. It provides a lot of different music sources, such as Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. It’s a perfect open-source solution and alternative for SONOS, running on a Raspberry Pi. It’s nearly perfect for kids, and the only thing missing is a kids-compatible interface. That’s […]
Unattended upgrades in Debian
We use Debian for our systems. Not only because we love it, but also because you can harden and secure it very well. One of the many security precausions for Debian-based Linux distributions are unattended upgrades.
Mastering Vim: Motions and marks
This time I’d like to talk about some some useful tips how to move through a file. Vim motions and marks cannot only be helpful to jump to a specific location, but also to select, copy-paste and delete text passages.
Mastering Vim: Undo, redo and repeat
This time I’ll show you how to undo, redo and repeat stuff in Vim. With just a few simple keystrokes you can improve your daily workflow.
Mastering Vim: Working with multiple files
In this blog post, I’d like to show you how to use Vim to open and edit multiple files. Use the right techniques and you’ll be even more productive in handling multiple files at the same time.
Mastering Vim: Opening files
I think every *NIX admin knows this little gem – the Vi or Vim (Vi Improved) text editor. While the origin vi was written by Billy Joy, vim was cloned, improved and released in 1991 by Bram Moolenaar. In the blog series Mastering Vim, I’d like to show you some tips & tricks.
Adding and removing nginx response headers
If you’re using nginx as your preferred web server, reverse proxy, load balancer or HTTP cache, then you might be familiar with HTTP response headers. Nginx allows you to customise those HTTP response headers very easily.
Sending signals to a Docker container
We all know Docker, right? Running processes in Docker containers is nice and we can easily stop, start or restart the container with simple commands. However, you probably don’t want to “fully restart” a container all the time so sending signals to a Docker container becomes important.
Backup a MySQL or MariaDB Docker container
When it comes to databases running in Docker containers then a consistent backup of the data with classic backup methods becomes a bit tricky. So you’ve to use a quite different approach to backup a MySQL or MariaDB Docker container.
Docker Reverse Proxy
When it comes to (simple) web applications, then most of the time Docker is a perfect fit. However, as you begin to migrate your applications into Docker containers, you might ask yourself how to forward all the requests to the different containers. A Docker Reverse Proxy can help!