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xpanes, a parallel ssh tool

xpanes, a parallel ssh tool

iIdeally, you don't need to log into your Linux servers. They are set up and managed through automation tools like Ansible. All key monitoring metrics and logs are shipped off-site and presented in beautiful dashboards. But we live in an imperfect world where the Ansible playbooks aren'

Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland

Fuzzel: A great dmenu and rofi alternative for Wayland

Fuzzel is a versatile app and utility launcher for Wayland. If you are familiar with dmenu and rofi, fuzzel is largely compatible with them. Screenshots What's Fuzzel good for? Besides launching applications, as a dmenu alternative Fuzzel can be used for many utility tasks. These include: * Emoji picker

Reverting to previous post revision in Ghost using SQL

Ghost 5.2 stores the last 10 revisions of blog posts in the database, but currently there's no interface to revert to a prior version using the web interface. Here's how you can restore a previous revision if it's not too later. What to

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How to Add Recipe Schema Markup to your Ghost Blog

When it comes to food blogging, Wordpress is king. But if you only have a few recipes to add to your blog, perhaps like me you've chosen Ghost as your blogging software instead. What is Recipe Schema Markup While humans will read the your recipe blog post, software

Towards a better keyboard design

Towards a better keyboard design

Keyboard design has real-world consequences. Yesterday, I worked with half a dozen people across the country to locate and retrieve a misdelivered package. The issue traces back to keyboard design. A FedEx store employee had been handed a hand-written note with the delivery address: 1125 Main Street The employee quickly

Using rsnapshot with systemd

Using rsnapshot with systemd

rsnapshot nicely illustrates some of the features of systemd timers. As of Ubuntu 16.04, the rsnapshot package doesn't ship with systemd service and timer files, so you have to set them up yourself. Before I show how to setup rsnapshot with systemd, I want to cover some

Possible solutions to empty files after log rotation

Possible solutions to empty files after log rotation

You rotate your logs and then find the log files are empty. It appears no more data is getting written to them. Having done server maintenance for several years, this is a common issue that is not specific to the app writing to the log file, such as forever. Here&