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Linux

36 posts
Jan 2009 – Jun 2025

Introducing Runner: a lightweight wrapper for cron jobs

Part of the Project Announcements series. It’s been a while since I blogged anything here, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t done anything in the past couple years! Over the next months, I’m going to try to make some posts about the various projects I’ve …

Deploying Let’s Encrypt with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

This post will (tersely) walk through the steps required to deploy Let’s Encrypt for TLS, including automatic renewals, on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS1 server running Nginx. This will allow Let’s Encrypt to fetch and renew your certificates transparently, without interfering with whatever application you may be reverse-proxying …

Serving from your Dropbox folder with nginx

Long ago, Dropbox provided a Public folder that had some special capabilities. Those capabilities are now better integrated into Dropbox, but I still use my Public folder for things I intend to share. I set up a server to make that folder available over the web. I can now share …

Moving from Wordpress to Jekyll (and a new design)

Over the last few months, I got really tired of the old design and terrible performance of this site. A redesign was clearly in order. We use Jekyll at Nutshell, and I've started to like it, so I figured I'd try using it for this site. …

Perfect ViewVC On Dreamhost

I recently set up an installation of ViewVC on my Dreamhost account. I also found out how to implement a few useful features, and I'm going to share this process here in the hope that you find it useful and in the hope that I can find it …

Very Simple Dynamic DNS Client

I have recently found a need for a Dynamic DNS client for my desktop. This, based on a script from Jeremy Zawodny, is what I've come up with: {% highlight bash %} !/bin/bash T_USER=TWITTER_USER T_PASS=TWITTER_PASSWORD T_URL=http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml …