Linux

This post is raw. No grammar is checked. When doing local development or just tinkering with this or that, quite often you want to expose something to the Internet. When it’s just single “something”, then you can just forward your port 80 from router, to your machine’s “something” port. But this falls appart if you have two “something” you want to expose to the Internet. You can’t forward single 80 port from your router to two different applications running on your machine....

Today I decided to ditch Flyway Desktop execution from CLI and integrate into my Sway + Wofi desktop environment. Basically, there is what you need: Get an Flyway icon and paste it into flyway.svg file Copy that SVG file into $HOME/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/flyway.svg Change the color for the icon by adding fill="#CC0200" to the path Create an $HOME/.local/share/applications/flyway.desktop file with the content like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [Desktop Entry] Version=1....

Migrating old databases Currently mostly busy with modernizing 15 years old infrastructure of some customer. Old and huge MySQL databses. No foreign keys. No timestamps. It’s all pretty convoluted. Many VM’s running directly on KVM without libvirt abstraction. Failing hard drives. Old PHP. And the overaly of many “big brain” sysadmins. But at least, I gained full access to the most of the resources, restored passwords, established secure remote access, etc....

This post is a public draft, which may or may not be completed. As new thoughts come to mind, I may improve this article over time. PC Monitor setup I’ve been everywhere. From a single tiny 15" laptop to 4 screens + TV. But currently I’m at two monitor setup and even seriously considering one 32" 4K monitor setup. The thing about the multi-monitor setup is that it is misleading feeling about boosted productivity, because you “control” more things at once....