You Should Not Ignore the Mastodon Social Network Any More
The Mastodon social network reached 2 million users some days ago, almost doubling its number of users in one year.
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How I Switched Working From Office Full Time to Remote 3 Days A Week
Remote work is not for everyone. It depends a lot of anyone’s taste. But it’s definitely for me. Here is why and how I switched from working full time in an office to 3 days of remote work.
You Think the Visual Studio Code binary you use is a Free Software? Think again.
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.
FOSS: passive consumerism kills our community
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.
Use Nginx Unit 1.0 with your Django project on Debian Stretch
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 …
Testing Ansible Playbooks With Vagrant
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.
The Slack Threat
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 …
The Github threat
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 …
Send scheduled messages to both Twitter and Mastodon with the Remindr bot
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 …
The Importance of Choosing the Correct Mastodon Instance
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). …