Writing — 104 posts · 2007–2026
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Linux and sysadmin notes from the late 2000s, Ruby, PHP and Git from the years after, and lately code agents, team leadership and web performance.
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The full procedure we used to move a company's Subversion repositories to Git with the history intact, written down because it is not straightforward.
2010
Slides from a lecture at the University of A Coruña on what the Galician open-source community is building and how to get involved.
Reclaiming disk space on Debian and Ubuntu by stripping the translations, documentation and package files you will never use.
Spotify 0.4.8 shipped D-Bus support on Linux: what the interface exposes and how to drive the player programmatically.
How to set up XDebug and drive it from Komodo IDE or Edit to step through PHP code, with notes that carry over to other editors.
The most useful references I found while researching web and social-media UI patterns for a pattern toolkit.
How to bring back files and whole directories from an earlier commit in Git, written after deleting an icons directory in gnome-system-tools.
How to join an Ubuntu 10.04 machine to a large Active Directory domain for centralised users, groups and resources.
Notes from GUADEC-ES 7 in A Coruña, my first GNOME-focused conference, and what meeting the people behind the project in person changed.
The single command that installs Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL on a Debian-based system, in under a hundred characters.
How to wire the keyboard backlight keys of a MacBook Pro 15" into Ubuntu Lucid Lynx so they work like the rest of the hardware.
Serving Google Analytics' JavaScript from your own domain with a local cache, so a third-party request stops holding up page load.
If you use memcached to cache contents among different servers and apps, and you want to get statistics for what is happening inside the memcached-sever you can use one of the available interfaces for programming languages but there are simpler ways to do that.
Making Munin usable once you are monitoring more servers than you expected: a cleaner layout and the plugins worth adding.
mabishu-apache-autoindex, a set of templates, CSS and icons that makes Apache's mod_autoindex directory listings look like something you meant.