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All the articles I've posted.

Documentation and MkDocs
Updated:Anything I do gets documentation, for no other reason that if I ever return to it later, I'll understand what I did. You can be sure that I will have forgo

Ansible on Steroids!
Mitogen Mitogen is a program that miraculously speeds up the remote execution of Python scripts. It also has an Ansible plugin. At first, I thought it look

Removing Your Android Phone from Google Home
Updated:I recently bought a new Android phone. Trouble is, Google Home keeps finding my old phone when I ask it "Hey Google, where's my phone?" I went into Find My

Backgrounding a Current Process
I was today years old when I learned I could background a running task, and exit the terminal to keep it running. I started a pgbackrest backup on a large

Vagrant Issues Again
Updated:Following some more system updates, it looks like updates to ruby continue to break vagrant. I thought I'd try a different approach. Can vagrant work with



Running Amazon Linux 2023 Locally
Updated:We have an AWS estate of EC2's and many other components. Whilst doing some testing, I was frustrated at the low-end specification of a server I wanted to build - I didn't want to invest in more cash than necessary. "Can I run Amazon Linux 2023 on my own virtual machine?"

Fish and Node.js
Today, I was installing a boilerplate project that uses Node.js on an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS box. I didn't want to use the Ubuntu version of Node.js, it's usuall

Vagrant Error after Updates
After applying updates, I got an error trying to bring up a vagrant host. Error message given during initialization: Unable to resolve dependency: user req