Debian stuff
Did you download your binary of Visual Studio Code directly from the official website? If so, you’re not using a Free Software and only Microsoft knows what was added to this binary. And you should think of the worst possible.
TL;DR: Don’t be a passive consumer of FOSS. It’s going to kill the FOSS community or change it in bad ways. Contribute in any way described in this article, even really basic ones, but contribute daily or on a very regular basis.
Nginx Unit 1.0 was released 2018, April the 12th. It is a new application server written by the Nginx team. Some features are really interesting, such as: Fully dynamic reconfiguration using RESTful JSON API Multiple application languages and versions can run simultaneously I was setting up a new Django project at this time and it …
I use Ansible to automate the deployments of my websites (LinuxJobs.fr, Journal du hacker) and my applications (Feed2toot, Feed2tweet). I’ll describe in this blog post my setup in order to test my Ansible Playbooks locally on my laptop.
During a long era, electronic mail was the main communication tool for enterprises. Slack, which offer public or private group discussion boards and instant messaging between two people, challenge its position, especially in the IT industry. Not only Slack has features known and used since IRC launch in the late ’80s, but Slack also offers …
Many voices arise now and then against risks linked to the Github use by Free Software projects. Yet the infatuation for the collaborative forge of the Octocat Californian start-ups doesn’t seem to fade away. These recent years, Github and its services take an important role in software engineering as they are seen as easy to …
Do you need to send messages to both Twitter and Mastodon? Use the Remindr bot! Remindr is written in Python, released under the GPLv3 license. 1. How to install Remindr Install Remindr from PyPI: # pip3 install remindr 2. How to configure Remindr First, start by writing a messages.txt file with the following content: o …
Remember, Mastodon is a new decentralized social network, based on a free software which is rapidly gaining users (already there is more than 1.5 million accounts). As I’ve created my account in June, I was a fast addict and I’ve already created several tools for this network, Feed2toot, Remindr and Boost (mostly written in Python). …
Each time I remind people about one of my best blog posts, I do have positive reviews and a peak of traffic on my blog. But as an IT guy, I hate (so much) manually (gosh!) posting reminders of my articles on both my Twitter account and my Mastodon account. So I wrote Remindr. Each …
I just released the version 0.6 of Feed2toot, a self hosted bot to automatically post RSS feeds to Mastodon, a free (as in free software) and decentralized social network. Thanks a lot to all involved contributors (read the changelog for details), this version is mostly their work. Feed2toot on Gitlab (would be awesome if you …