To read the news free from distractions and ads I use Newsboat as a reader for RSS feeds. However, one thing that annoyed me was that it would span across my entire screen in the terminal. When you read blogs or news pages in the browser, you’ll notice that the text is always located in a middle column of the window, so you don’t have to move your neck while reading. At least, this is the case with well designed websites that serve text content. ...
Today I added a harddisk I had lying around because I needed some more space. On my Arch Linux system I have all my drives encrypted like a good boy. It can be a bit tricky when you are adding them because you need to configure a few different files and add different UUID’s in each of them. Here are the steps I follow to add a new disk. Note that this how to assumes that you already have set up your system with dm-crypt. ...
I wanted to build an application from a Dockerfile and deploy it to a VM. I used a default Svelte setup as an example app. Naturally, Azure prefers that you deploy containers to services such as Azure Container Instances or App Services, so they don’t provide modules for the pipelines to deploy to docker servers as far as I could tell. I searched for a long time but I could not find a solution. In the end I just ran shell commands from the pipeline to run the container on on the server. ...
To reach a VM from Azure Pipelines, you need to set up an environment. Create your Linux VM in Azure. In Azure DevOps, click envirnoments, new, and select the Virtual Machine option. A command is generated for you. SSH into your VM and run the command. Now the VM should show up under environments in Azure DevOps. Set up a repo with an azure-pipelines.yml with these contents to test. under environment, set the same name as you did in Azure DevOps for your environment. ...
For a project I’m setting up my environment with Terraform. I used this tutorial, but modified the code to make it simpler and easier to understand for beginners. The original uses a random module to generate random names, and generates a new SSH key. Also, this tutorial uses expensive VM tiers and Premium storage, which are not necessary when you are learning. I also thought the SSH configuration was overcomplicated. My version just takes an SSH keypair stored at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ...
I use the Obsidian app, but I mostly write and search my notes with neovim. I added my zet directory from this blog repo into the Obsidian vault as a symbolic link, but I soon discovered that these files were not being searched. Telescope.nvim uses ripgrep (rg) to do the live grepping in its search, and ripgrep does not follow symbolic links by default. You need to pass the -L flag to it. ...
Make sure to have pip installed. Run pip install python-openstackclient Pip will install a binary called “openstack” in ~/.local/bin If the openstack command is not available in your session, you might need to add it to your PATH: export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH" Add this to your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc to make sure this happens for each shell session. Don’t forget to source your updated ~/.zshrc if you chose to add it: source ~/.zshrc ...
Download the Openstack RC file from the Openstack portal. Click your username in the top right corner to find it. Source the RC file to make the environment variables avaialable to your current session: source ~/my_openstack.sh Find the instance ID of your VM from the portal. Run openstack server set --root-password be3xxxx5-8348-418b-xxxb-c4xxxx575cd You will be prompted for the new password which will be set on the virtual machine.
When you install a pip package which is meant to be run from the command line as a command, you might find that it is not available to you after installation. If this happens, it might be that the path is missing from your PATH variable. Therefore, the shell does not source these binaries when initiated, and does not know that these executables exist. You can find the location of your binaries by running pip show package_name ...