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Back from the dead(land of 404)

TO: whomever is reading this SUBJECT: critical HDD failure DATA: A few weeks back one of my WD 4Tb Reds crapped out – production date said 2017 but I bought in 2018. It was no longer being recognized by the HDD controller – the usual story. Sadly it was part of an LVM volume which …

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Goodbye Openshift 2

Dear RedHat, Thank you for having hosted my site for so long for free. I tried to migrate to OpenShift 3 via the Free tier but sadly the quota does not allow for everything I need to run my WordPress. So i had to move; no hard feelings – but 50 bucks/month – are you …

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Using Let’s Encrypt with a PHP Application on OpenShift

Hi, Update: github.com/kuba/simp_le is dead, the github.com/zenhack/simp_le fork is to be used instead. The following post documents how I used Let’s Encrypt to secure this WordPress site which hosted on OpenShift. The following is based on this forum post/tutorial. I just made it work with virtualenv and a PHP OpenShift app. Please note that you …

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Debugging Go Programs with QtCreator

Debugging Go is a pain. I am not sure why the designers of this language did not include a debugger in the toolchain. In any case, GDB can be used to debug this wonderful language and I discovered that QtCreator is an alright frontend. There a few steps needed to set this up: Configure gdb …

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1Password for Firefox on Linux

How to Run 1Password for Firefox(and probably Chrome) on Linux   I’ve been loving 1Password for a while now and I wanted to use it on Linux as well. There is no official support from Agilebits for Linux yet. In my search I found a few ways: http://www.lucianofiandesio.com/1password-in-linux And other hacks. But in the end …

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Switched to a VPS for Hosting

Hello absent fans, I’ve dreamed for a while to mess around with my own VPS. Ever since I got my Raspberry PI I tried to cram as much stuff as possible into it. But… the poor thing has its limitations. So I migrated the wordpress site to a VPS on the cloud running some Ubuntu …

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