Nasqueron uses NetBox as source of truth for its network. It’s mainly use for IPAM to store IP configuration, both for our private network and the public addresses. NetBox allows to create custom fields to store extra information in addition to the base model.We leveraged this to add default gateway, an information useful to configure […]
Read moreApril 2022 in links
Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to March 2022 or February 2022. TLS The New Illustrated TLS Connection explains visually the different exchanges to initiate a TLS 1.3 connection. CLI If you wish to use Vim as an IDE, the distribution SpaceVim aggregates layers of plugin and […]
Read moreMarch 2022 in links
Some links of stuff I appreciated this month.You can also take the time machine to February 2022. CLI Browsing the Terminator terminal emulator plugins capabilities, I’ve prepared a resolve-hash command to find the URL matching a Git SHA-1 hash. Let’s go back to 1997: Brian W. Kernighan publishes an article how to use advanced commands […]
Read moreFebruary 2022 in links
The secret life of strings An interesting discussion about bytes, code points and grapheme on the PHP internals mailing list explains why the notion of string length isn’t relevant. Per this discussion, the grapheme extension functions will now be supported for UTF-8 encoding by OmniTools. Console love Among the trending projects on GitHub in January […]
Read moreMarch 2018 in links
Some links of stuff I appreciated this month. Links to French content are in a separate post. Illustration: The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge at night. This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 26 March 2018. Science 17 March 1958, a small satellite, the size of a grapefruit is launched. It’s still […]
Read moreGSoC 2018 at Wikimedia
This year, 65 students have sent a final proposal. Thanks to Rosalie Perside and Balaji for their proposal to build a Twitter bot receiving emojis and replying with a Wikimedia Commons photography.
Read moreUpgrade beyond Docker 1.12 on CentOS 7
If you’ve a CentOS 7 server, you probably picked at first Docker from a specialized CBS from Project Atomic, “virt7”, or from EPEL. It’s been a while Docker 1.13 has been released. Yet, there isn’t any upgrade beyond 1.12 (but fixes backported to this 1.12 branch). You need to get rid of the old packages, […]
Read moreMediaWiki now accepts out of the box RDFa and Microdata semantic markup
Since MediaWiki 1.16, the software has supported — as an option — RDFa and Microdata HTML semantic attributes. This commit, integrated to the next release on MediaWiki, 1.27, will embrace more the semantic Web making these attributes always available. If you wish to use it today, this is already available in our Git repository. This also simplify […]
Read moreLet’s encrypt lifts quota by domain for renewal
There is currently a limitation of how many certificates you can register per week: a quota of 5 per domain per week. The same limitation applied for renewal, which would have forced to maintain a schedule. This is not the case anymore: if a certificate has already been generated for a specific FQDN, you can renew […]
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