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Tag: Linux

  • Rookeries v0.16.0 – Cross-Platform Support

    On Wednesday night, I released version 0.16.0 of Rookeries, my developer/designer friendly static site generator! What makes this release exciting is that I added cross-platform support for macOS and FreeBSD! Also I setup an cross-platform installer, that works on all 64-bit x86 Linux distros including Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2.0. And I plan on…

  • Packaging up a Rust Binary for Linux

    Prologue I should of written an update for quite some time. While I’ve been experimenting with marketing analytics, learning about data science, business development, doing DevOps with GitLab CI and various other things, I wanted to write up my learning when I had a chance to internalize everything. However what made me decide to write…

  • Fixing Docker on Linode (Linux v4.18.16)

    This week as I had some downtime after PyCon Canada, I started working on resolving all the issues that I postponed. One of these issues involved applying security updates to my Linode server and rebooting the server. However when I did so… I noticed that the Rookeries site went down. When I logged into the…

  • Command-line JSON Formatting with jq

    About 2 or 3 months ago, when testing a deployment of a microservice at work with Eric, our head Ops admin, we were looking at the JSON output of one of the REST endpoints. Rather than looking at the raw output from curl, I piped the output through JSON tool in the Python standard library:…

  • Distro Hopping

    Sorry for the much delayed update, however this year has been an hectic and busy one. (New job, new house, lots of random unexpected events along the way, like two funerals and two weddings in a single month, etc. Long story.) Plus I really hoped to change blog platforms, but that is a story for…

  • Linux SATA HDD Issues with Samsung RF-711

    OK, this is a quick post for anyone who is running into issues with using Linux on a Samsung RF-711.  Specifically this applies to Ubuntu Linux 12.04 64-bit. Essentially what was happening, was that periodically my entire machine would freeze with the exception of anything currently running.  This kept on happening all the time, until…

  • The Next Big Thing

    I am really excited that I am currently working on my next big project.  I won’t spill any details until everything is setup and ready.  This new project I hope not only will give me the opportunity to work on the technologies I love to work with.  But will also benefit the Linux and open…

  • Experiments with Wine Gaming

    While I was working last month (and last year), I had the need and opportunity to setup Linux properly on my laptop.  Windows simply did not cut it for remote development.  After a bit of fighting with some graphics issues (yes, I got bitten by the switching between the Intel and Nvidia GPUs) I managed…

  • Migrating to openSUSE

    If you’ve followed my dents on identi.ca, you may have noticed that I asked people for their recommendations for a good KDE4 Linux distribution.  Well after a bit of thought I decided that I would move away from Kubuntu to openSUSE.  Why the change? KDE4 is the desktop environment that gets all the attention and…

  • Nokia N900 – The Penguin Has Landed

    You may have noticed that I’ve dropped off the side of the Internet somewhat. Life can get busy at times, especially for someone who sometimes gets muddled up with time management and priorities. Another compelling reason for this is that I recently bought a Nokia N900. And I’m still getting used to incorporating it into…