Archives

How my homelab deploys about twenty apps from git with Flux on a two-node Talos cluster, and why Docker Compose hosts, k3s and Argo CD were set aside.

My homelab today: one Proxmox host in a 16U rack, two Talos Linux VMs as a Kubernetes cluster, network tiers like a cloud VPC, and Tailscale as the only door.

How coding agents write my homelab: the AGENTS.md files and skills they follow, the guardrails, the incidents that became rules, and the risk I accept.

How a Proxmox host and a Synology NAS shut down in time on a PowerWalker UPS with NUT, why its 0% low-battery threshold can't be trusted, and the fix.

awssesh, a terminal dashboard for AWS SSO profiles: live status and expiry for each, auto-refresh of pinned profiles, and credentials exported to your shell.

Presto, a self-hosted time tracker for freelancers: click worked days on a calendar, export monthly activity reports as PDF, and run it as one Docker image.

A bash script, run as root over SSH, that issues a Tailscale certificate with tailscale cert and installs it as Synology DSM's default certificate.

Host a static website on AWS with Terraform: a private S3 bucket behind CloudFront with OAC, an ACM certificate, Route 53 DNS and a www redirect function.

The directory layout of a TypeScript todo app in Clean (Hexagonal) Architecture: entities, use cases and repository interfaces in the core, TypeORM outside it.

Put an AWS Lambda Function URL behind a custom domain with the Serverless Framework, using CloudFront, an ACM certificate and Route 53 instead of API Gateway.

A short PHP function that turns any UTF-8 string, in Latin, Arabic, Chinese or other scripts, into a URL slug, with an optional length limit.

A PHP bot built on cURL and DOMXPath that logs in to Facebook and reads a group's numeric ID from its page, since the Graph API and FQL could not.

Part 2 of the Safari extension tutorial: write the injected script, global page and popover of a visited links logger, then test and package it.

Part 1 of a Safari extension tutorial: enable Extension Builder, then configure a visited links logger with a toolbar button, popover and injected scripts.

My memories of the Amstrad CPC 6128: the games I played, its green monitor and 3-inch floppies, and my first lines of Locomotive BASIC.

Fifteen beginner Java video tutorials in Tunisian dialect by Mohamed Turki, from installing the JDK and Eclipse to classes, inheritance, interfaces and collections.

A short Linux Foundation video, based on the "Who Writes Linux" report, on how the largest collaborative project in computing history is organized.

Step-by-step instructions for running the OpenACS 0.4 beta TR-069 auto-configuration server on JBoss AS 5.1 GA with JDK 1.6 and MySQL on Linux.

The Tunisian Python community put its web portal online in April 2012, with a coming-soon message and links to its Facebook and Twitter pages.

Photos from the March 2012 Red Hat and Tritux seminar on SOA and JBoss middleware at the Hotel Concorde in Tunis: the talks, the stands and the Tritux team.

Red Hat and its Tunisian partner Tritux held a seminar in Tunis in March 2012 on what service-oriented architecture (SOA) brings to enterprise information systems.

Four steps to change the Unity launcher's icon size, speed, opacity and behavior on Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 with the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

Install the MySQL server and client on Ubuntu with apt-get, check that the service is running, set a root password and control starting at boot.