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mastodon-to-bluesky

I’ve been using Bluesky more and more recently. It’s a pleasant enough place to post, though I’m still not entirely convinced by the …

The MCP Servers I Actually Use

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem is changing quickly. While experimentation is interesting, I’ve found myself settling on a core set …

Setting up Matrix Synapse on Fedora

I wanted to install a Matrix service for my family. While matrix-synapse is packaged in Fedora, there’s scant documentation regarding what to do …

Fingerprint Authentication on a Lenovo Z13 and Fedora 40

I’ve previously used fingerprint authentication on Thinkpads in the very distant past. There have been a lot of changes to the software stack …

Using ruff for everything in VSCode

Ruff’s VSCode extension is nice, and can handle the jobs previously done by black and isort. To turn on everything, and to run this on every …

Automatic, persistent autoreload in iPython

I like that iPython can be configured to automatically reload modules. It’s useful to be able to keep REPL context through development, without …

Logging git commits with a git hook

Similar to my previous post (more than a year ago!) about using Git hooks to enforce conventional commits, I wanted to start logging all of my …

Conventional Commits Git Hook

I was looking for a way to enforce the Conventional Commits pattern for my own commit messages. A lot of the solutions I found were wildly …

Listing all Django URLs in a project

This will list all registered Django URLs in a project, with their arguments.

from django.conf import settings
from django.urls import URLPattern, …

Parallel Rsync

rsync will run in sequential mode by default. This can cause transfers to take a long time, and it’s unlikely to make full use of your bandwidth …

Dokku Cheatsheet

I always forget how to setup new Dokku apps; I do it infrequently enough that it never sticks.

Create the app:

$ ssh host
$ dokku apps:create myapp …

Creating a new email user with `postfix` on Void

This is possibly specific to my own super-minimal postfix setup on Void, but to add a new email user:

$ sudo adduser someone
$ sudo passwd someone …

User services with `runit` on Void Linux

Void Linux uses the very miminalsit service management tool runit. The runsvdir program monitors a folder for service definitions, and then supervises …

Bringing up KVM on Arch

It’s reasonably simple to bring up a new KVM system on Arch, assuming your hardware supports VT-x or AMD-V (and almost everything does).

First, …

Installing Arch On a Vultr VPS

Abstract

I have been happy using Vultr as my VPS provider for a few months now. Vultr offer a very flexible system of ISO upload before the first …

Automatically --set-upstream when pushing a new branch

I frequently open a new branch with git flow, and the first time I push to Github, I see the following message:

fatal: The current branch …

Personal VPN Setup

I feel the need to start this post with something impactful about industrial-scale data capture and the weaponsiation of software exploits; this would …

Recursively updating S3 bucket permissions

If you want to recursively apply a permission to an S3 bucket (for example, to add the public-read permission), then you can use the aws CLI tool to …

Listing ElasticBeanstalk applications with the aws CLI tool.

You can easily list EB applications in your default AWS account with the following query.

$ aws elasticbeanstalk describe-applications --query …