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Digital Ocean

Oh - I have a blog...

Most of what I use is now hosted with docker and I'm using Nginx Proxy Manager in the front. That small utility is a realy nifty pice of software - I don't think I would have bothered moving stuff back home without it. It makes reverse proxy almost fun ;-)

Fun

A shout-out to CLI

Not everything has to be fancy and shiny. Most of the apps we use to day, both on our laptops/desktops and mobile phones are very good looking and sleek. The developers behind them has done a terrific job with most of  these apps. But is fancy, shiny and sleek

Digital Ocean

DigitalOcean Python Dynamic DNS

I've earlier posted about my Node based Dynamic DNS [https://blog.icloud.yt/updated-dyndns-app/] solution for DigitalOcean. Although this app is still working it will not be maintained anymore. I have created a Python (3.x) based app that does the same as the Node based one - sans the

MagicMirror

MagicMirror2 Module

After setting up one of my Raspberry PIs as a "Magic Mirror" - sans the mirror but with a 7" touch screen I found the need for a module or two. Magic Mirror2 [https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror] has a lot of good modules to choose from. One of them

Git

Git / Hastebin

If you are using Solus (with Budgie DE) (https://solus-project.com) there is a small applet for Budgie panel to easily paste your gist/snippet directly to a gist server.It supports Pastebin, Github Gist, Hastebin and GNOME paste. That means you can use it on Gitlab.no's [https://gitlab.

Instagram

Instagram feed as static page

Some code and instructions for showing your Instagram feed as a static page with a Ghost blog.

WordPress

Moving from WordPress to Ghost

Although I like WordPress, it is bloated for just a simple blog. This is one of the reasons I've gone back to using Ghost [https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost] as my blogging platform. Another reason is the fact that I'm using JS in my daily job, so I just as

Gitea

[Tutorial] Adding Lets Encrypt to Gitea

In the last post I showed you how to set up Gitea with Nginx on an Ubuntu box. Now we’ll set up a Lets Encrypt certificate on that install. For this part we need to download some extra software from Lets Encrypt. It is very easy an takes just

Git

[Tutorial] Set up Gitea with Nginx.

In this tutorial I’ll go through the steps to set up your own Gitea instance with Nginx. There are probably several different methods to achieve the same goal, this is how I recommend it. Prerequisites A server/vps with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Nginx already installed. The server

Code

Moving from Gogs to Gitea

After having some small hiccups with my Gogs installation – not just because of problems with Gogs it self, it was more user problems. So after rolling back a backup, I decided to give Gitea a try.If you’ve installed or managed  Gogs (or any webbased service) before, the installation

Code

Updated dyndns app

Just updated the dyndns app [https://gitlab.no/rune/dyndns] for Digital Ocean. No longer needs to be re installed after changing config. It now relies on an external config file.

Bot

Coding a Twitter bot

I’ve been playing around with the Twitter API this weekend, and put together a small Twitter bot. This is my first attempt at something like this, so there will be errors. It is a bot that reacts to content, and tweets @ replies to those tweeting the correct “triggers”. As

Code

Weekend coding

Just because I’m a developer by day, does not mean that I stop coding when I come home. It’s in the fingers and blood(?). Most of my of-the-clock coding is just things that I want for my self or for the purpose of teaching myself some new stuff.

Server config

Server config @3 am is a bad thing. Good backup routines are priceless! Lost last post, will repost – soon(ish).

ISPConfig

WordPress and Nginx

This is just a small writeup on setting up WordPress on a Nginx server running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The prerequisite is also that is has PHP and MySql. Basically this post is a summary of my other posts on WP and Nginx. So with the basic stuff out of

SSL / PGP / DKIM

So, done with securing my servers and mail. Private mails are now all securely signed, domains have SSL and mail server has DKIM.

405

More Nginx and WordPress challenges [updated]

As I was writing about in the last post, there where some problems getting every thing to work with WP, Ubuntu and Nginx. One of the problems I got, was kind of a biggie. TL;DR; Having problem with Nginx running WordPress and xmlrpc.php POST requests? Check that thefastcgi_

Nginx

WordPress on Nginx

Running WordPress on server with Nginx is not a problem. However getting “pretty” permalinks can be a challenge. What you need to do, is to add an extra directive to your vhost setting for the domain you host your blog on. Depending on how you’ve set up your blog

gitlab

Changes

After moving all my sites from Linode over to DigitalOcean, I’ve also moved from the Ghost platform back to WordPress(.org). I’ve also gone from Apache to Nginx because I just wanted to try something new. My Gitlab instance (found at https://gitlab.no) has been changed from

Moving

Moving VPS

So this is just a small post to celebrate the move from one VPS to another And a post to see that all DNS stuff is working!

Code

NMEA GLL to decimal degrees

This is filed under “things you don’t find on stack overflow”. Working with the sensors on the ships I found that my calculations I did to get the GPS location displayed in degrees, minutes and seconds was a bit off. When the ship appears to be in the middel

16.04

Rockin' Ubuntu GNOME on MackBook Pro

It almost never fails. Every time a new version of Ubuntu comes around, I’ll have to try it out. This time it was the second beta of Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 that had to be tried out. Unfortunately the live version would not install, but there is a way

Code

What I do...

As you might have seen, I’m a developer working some strange places [http://ghostblog.be/coding-on-the-high-seas/], but I’m having fun doing it. I work for the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, developing a new event logging system for their research vessels. One of the parts of the system

Code

The hunt for the perfect editor

I’m no IDE person. I like my editor(s), I just can’t seem to find the perfect one. Maybe it is just me, but I cant’t remember a time I was not hunting for the perfect editor to do my coding in. I’ve tried * Text Mate

GitHub

GitLab on VPS

So now I’ve done that as well. Decided that I needed a Git server on my VPS – don’t know for what. But there you have it. The best reason for a nerd is “just ’cause I can”. GitLab [http://gitlab.org] comes with nginx as default, but my