Testing dynamic-static page with blocks

  • Powerline secrets

    You know that XKCD comic where the protagonist googles a tech question and the only matching result is from a long dead thread or even forum that details the issue but provides no answers? I am wondering if other people sometimes happen on the subcategory of that where the thread originator instead of being DenverCoder9…

  • StackExchange Answers: Shells

    Sometimes a Stackoverflow answer is so good that it helps me understand something I had kind of given up on. The distinctions of login and interactive shells are a good example. Some ressources had pointed me to the INVOCATION section of the bash man page. Here’s the explanation of what login and interactive shells are:…

  • How to force Steam UI doubling on linux

    In 2018 Steam on linux got the ability to autodetect HiDPI screens and resize the UI accordingly. I would guess this kicks in on 4k resolutions. I’m guessing because I don’t have one. What I do have is a laptop with a 14″ 2560×1440 screen and failing eyesight. Alas, neither one triggers the UI resize.…

  • Customize your keyboard layout (and have it work under Wayland)

    Customizing keyboard layout is a bit of a jungle. What works when you’re on the console may not work when you’re running X which again may not work under Wayland. I had to jettison my old .Xmodmap to get something that worked regardless of whether I was logged into Openbox (X) or GNOME on Wayland.

  • Proxy-set-header: Forwarding HTTP headers from Nginx to a WordPress container

    I detailed in a recent post how I got a working WordPress container setup, complete with database and PHP engine. I saved the bit about how to redirect traffic to the container (and apply encryption to the outbound connections) because I knew it was going to be just as much work as getting the setup…

  • My life as an IP hobo and the promise of Dynamic DNS

    When your servers don’t respond / who you gonna call? Well, maybe not call but look. And I’m talking about my server residing on my HTPC not yours. And it’s rhetorical question anyway because I know where to look once I get home. At one of the many what-is-my-ip address sites because the problem inevitably…

  • Moving site: Using MySQL to search-and-replace WordPress domain name

    It seems that the recommended way to change the references to the domain name in MySQL on a WordPress install is to take the whole thing offline and do it by using text tools on a database dump. Either that or change the settings in WordPress while the site is still live on the old…

  • Inspecting HTTP headers with tshark

    A step-by-step guide to excluding everything but http headers from sniffing results.

  • WordPress on Docker: The 1-2-3 approach

    There’s an official WordPress docker image on the hub. Which means I have no good excuse to go make my own. Here’s my bad excuse: The official approach contains Apache and WordPress files all mashed up in one image. This feels icky to me partly because I don’t know Apache, having decided early on to…

  • Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly: Part 2 – Proper authentication

    Encrypting communications with dovecot and hashing passwords for safe storage

  • Let’s do Dovecot slowly and properly – Part 1: PLAIN as day

    Configuring a very basic dovecot setup as a foundation for more advanced features later on

  • Setting up Postfix and Dovecot Slowly and Properly

    Back in 2015 I embarked on an ambitious plan to blog my entire way through setting up my own selfhosted email server. I got a fair bit in (5 posts) before the setting up got ahead of the blogging and I lost track of scribbled notes and halfwritten posts. Moving to a fresh Ubuntu 18.04…

  • Down the drain: The elusive ‘default’ PulseAudio sink

    There is no such thing as a default output device (or sink) in PulseAudio. It say so right there in the official documentation. There is something referred to as a fallback device which is used “if the stream has not been seen before”. Yet there is a configuration command called set-default-sink. So where does that…

  • Fixing the SteelSeries Arctis 7 outputs on Ubuntu 18.04/PulseAudio 11

    IMPORTANT: If you dualboot with Windows and run the Steelseries Engine software you should exercise caution when considering updating the headset firmware. Steelseries Engine version 3.2.18 introduced a new configuration of the headset that initially invalidated this fix (Thanks to Steve Brueggeman for help in making it work again). The Steelseries Engine Windows package itself…

  • Homeserver: NUC vs Raspberry Pi

    I have tried at various points to write a followup to my “so what’s it like using a NUC for a homeserver/HTPC?” post. Mostly it strands on there not really being anything new to add. It works. The added workload of more applications (and maybe more traffic?) over the past two years has made it…