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IT Featured Articles on cool technologies, focused on System Administration and Programming Languages

Mini Server @ Home

Posted on May 24, 2023 by Giovanni Giorgi
I the last years I decided to put a stop on my RasperryPI2 and have a mini pc always on. It is a very slow centrino with 2 CPU threads and 8Gb of RAM, a huble micro SATA SSD and … Continue reading →
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Gitea hardening and healthchecks.io

Posted on March 23, 2023 by Giovanni Giorgi
A friend of mine asked some insight on how to harden a Gitea server on Internet. Gitea is a web application for manging git repositories. Gitea is quite compact and is less feature-rich than GitLab, but it is light and … Continue reading →
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Docker History

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Bullet points: 1979: Unix V7 Introduced the chroot command to isolate the filesystem a process “access” to. Various technology was introduced up to 2006, like Virtuozzo (which patched Linux in a proprietary ways) 2006: Process Containers Launched by Google in … Continue reading →
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Open watcher: Nilfs file system and concourse CI

Posted on November 21, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
NILFS is a log-structured file system supporting versioning of the entire file system and continuous snapshotting, which allows users to even restore files mistakenly overwritten or destroyed just a few seconds ago. NILFS was developed by NTT Laboratories and published … Continue reading →
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Feather: Simple Icons with MIT License

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Simply beautiful open source icons https://github.com/feathericons/feather 1,217 forks. 23,536 stars. 485 open issues. Recent commits: Related Projects: Add figma-feather (#1160)Co-authored-by: Cole Bemis <colebemis@github.com>, GitHub Related Projects: add qwik-feather-icons (#1171)Co-authored-by: Eduardo García Maleta <57372721+yeyon@users.noreply.github.com>Co-authored-by: Cole Bemis <colebemis@github.com>, GitHub Add related project … Continue reading →
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Git Hooks: pre-commit.com

Posted on October 15, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Nice tool to test: Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug … Continue reading →
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Hacker News Undocumented “features”

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Giovanni Giorgi
Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented 104 forks. 3,040 stars. 28 open issues. Recent commits: Merge pull request #61 from asgh/patch-1note karma effect even after -4, GitHub note … Continue reading →
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