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Automatic PostgreSQL config with Ansible

If for some reasons you can’t use dedicated DBaaS for your PostgreSQL (like AWS RDS) then you need to run your database server on a cloud instance. In these kind of setup, when you scale up or down your ...


HAProxy and 503 HTTP errors with AWS ELB as a backend

Although, AWS provides load balancer service in the form of Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), a common trick is to use HAProxy in the middle to provide SSL offloading, complex routing and better logging.
In this scenario, a public ELB is ...


XWiki and slashes in URI

XWiki is a great open source Atlassian Confluence replacement (some argue it is better, I leave it to your assessment). We use XWiki a lot at Tenesys to document internal projects, and create documentation of clients' platforms. We run XWiki ...


Delete until signature in vim

It has been bugging me for a while. When responding to an email, you often want to delete all the content (or part of the previous content) until the end of the email's body. However it would be nice ...


debrfstats software for RFS statistics

Last time I told that I would release software I used to make RFS stats plots. You can find it in my github repo - github.com/tdi/debrfstats.

The software contains small class to get data needed to generate plots ...


statistics of RFS bugs and sponsoring process

For some days I have been working on statistics of the sponsoring process in Debian. I find this to be one of the most important things that Debian has to attract and enable new contributions. It is important to know ...


getting real "done date" of a bug from Debian BTS

As I wrote in my last post currently, SOAP interface, nor Ultimate Debian Database do not provide a date when a given bug was closed (done date). It is quite hard to calculate statistics on a bug tracker when you ...


RFS health in Debian

I am working on a small project to create WNPP like statistics for open RFS bugs. I think this could improve a little bit effectiveness of sponsoring new packages by giving insight into bugs that are on their way to ...


forwarding messages with attachments in mutt

This is a pain for every mutt user. I do not know why this solution is so hard to find. Just add these two lines to your .muttrc.

set mime_forward
set mime_forward_rest=yes

This will forward an email with all ...


profanity and libstrophe status in Debian

profanity is a great console based XMPP client written in ncurses and C by James Booth. The code has a great quality, upstream is super collaborative, and willing, so packaging should be pretty straightforward. This post will show that this ...

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