Category Archives: development

When I was trying out navidrome using podman I ran into a couple hiccups that seemed specific to podman. This was my first attempt to run a service with podman. Rootless podman is different from docker, but seems like a … Continue reading →

You gotta prune tomato plants if you want good tomatoes. If you let them go wild, they’ll grow aggressively, growing tons of leaves, growing too densely, and destroying themselves by fungus and other blight from the overcrowding. As the stems … Continue reading →

Motivation I’ve recently gotten completely fed-up with my backup process (using duplicity) in the way it gobbles up huge amounts of memory (6GB+ out of 8GB physical memory) when doing its daily backup. This annoyance is amplified by code in … Continue reading →

I got a chance to stop by the AWS Summit 2014 at their stop in San Francisco at the Moscone. It was a free event, and mobbed by people apparently hungry to learn more about Amazon’s Cloud platform services. I … Continue reading →

Not being able to login without a mouse/trackpad with the gnome3 gdm greeter has bothered me for quite some time, and usually I just complain silently and use the mouse. But today, I rejoice! …because someone has figured it out! … Continue reading →

This is probably *not news*, but I discovered that there is a way to ignore whitespace in meld. It’s under Edit->Preferences->Text Filters. There’s a setting (in hindsight, obviously) for ignoring changes that insert and delete lines and ones for ignoring … Continue reading →

Here are some personal notes on upgrading a home machine to Fedora 17 (beta). The preupgrade requires about 165MB on /boot for the upgrade. This is in addition to whatever you needed to boot Fedora. I didn’t have enough space, … Continue reading →