With (at least) the V1.1.0.15 firmware on the Ender V3 KE 3d printer the PAUSE macro will cause the print head to run too far on the Y axis, which causes a small layer shift when the print returns. I guess the idea is to expose the build pl…
If you have a personal domain, it is nice if you can redirect webfinger requests so you can be easily found via your email. This is hardly a new idea, but the growth of Mastodon recently has made this more prominent. I wanted to redirect we…
I have a cheap no-name UPS acquired from Jaycar and was wondering if I could get it to connect to my Synology DS918+. It rather unhelpfully identifies itself as MEC0003 and comes with some blob of non-working software on a CD; however some
I recently picked up this portable projector for a reasonable price. It might also be called a "M5" projector, but I can not find one canonical source. In terms of projection, it performs as well as a 5cm cube could be expected to. They mad…
For work I run a personal and a work VM on my laptop. When I was at VMware I dogfooded internal builds of Workstation which worked well, but was always a challenge to have its additions consistently building against latest kernels. About 5
The world of Python based web applications, WSGI, its interaction with uwsgi and various deployment methods can quickly turn into a incredible array of confusingly named acronym soup. If you jump straight into the uwsgi documentation it is
The world of Python based web applications, WSGI, its interaction with uwsgi and various deployment methods can quickly turn into a incredible array of confusingly named acronym soup. If you jump straight into the uwsgi documentation it is
For many years I've used Thunderbird with Alexandre Feblot's external editor plugin to allow me to edit mail with emacs. Unfortunately it seems long unmaintained and stopped working on a recent upgrade to Thunderbird 54 when some deprecated…
In a prior post, I gave an overview of the OpenStack CI system and how jobs were started. In that I said Well some recent security issues with Jenkins and other changes has led to a roll-out of what is being called Zuul 2.5, which has indee…
Also titled minimal images - maximal effort! The OpenStack Infrastructure Team manages a large continuous-integration system that provides the broad range of testing the OpenStack project requires. Tests are run thousands of times a day acr…
Ever since my kids were born I have accumulated thousands of digital happy-snaps and I have finally gotten to a point where I'm quite happy with my work-flow. I have always been extremely dubious of using any sort of external all-in-one sol…
This is a terse guide on bootstrapping virtual-machine images for OpenStack infrastructure, with the goal of adding continuous-integration support for new platforms. It might also be handy if you are trying to replicate the upstream CI envi…