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The exciting list of Cron oddities

Here follows a list of reasons why maybe you should think about using a proper job scheduler whenever you touch an existing cron job, or create a new one: ...

Cast the first stone

This is the story Of Emma, the rock Who had a talent for acting ...

Life lessons from a legendary samurai

Miyamoto Musashi was a Japanese swordsman who was born in the late sixteenth century. ...

AWS EBS snapshots stuck at 0%

A common action you have to do in while using AWS EC2 is an EBS (elastic block store) volume snapshot. ...

PixelsCamp, a hackathon is reborn

Hackathon’s are pretty cool, but here in Portugal they’re also quite rare. ...

AnsibleFest London 2016

This year I attended AnsibleFest in London. I have been using Ansible extensively at work and a combination of very interesting talks, being somewhat nearby (read, not across an ocean) and not having a super expensive ticket price made it so that I could go. ...

Easily run python functions from the command line

Let’s say you have a python file and you want to run some functions from it in the command line. ...

Pull requests without the messy commit history

So you’re using some kind of configuration management system and you use a pull based deploy method where nodes pull configuration and set themselves up. ...

The twelve networking rules

A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society, the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet. ...

Install Raspbian and configure Wi-fi without a monitor or keyboard

I’ve just bought a Raspberry Pi and not having access to an extra monitor, keyboard or mouse I had to make do with just a router and an ethernet cable. ...

Extracting archives the easy way

I’ve recently updated to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and decided that I liked the way OS X extracts things. ...

Campus parking on Prime days only

Someone recently made a joke about we only being allowed to park a car on campus on prime days. ...

Compiling and uploading arduino programs without the IDE

The Arduino IDE might be good for beginners, but it’s not my usual text editor, so I don’t like it. ...

Simple guide to packaging python applications

This will be mostly a self-note for the future, and from someone who packaged an application for the first time today. ...

Installing the internet

Vaguely remembering when we first got internet access, I searched a little and found a package we got that day. ...

How can a programmer learn to design websites that don't suck

Graphics are really important in every project. Games, desktop apps, mobile app - every piece of software really - has something to gain by improving graphics (except Rogue, that is just awesome as it is). ...

How much do the Red Hot Chili Peppers like California?

I noticed that a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers songs had California references. ...

Why I use Python and enjoy it thoroughly

I started learning Python about a year ago for a web development project during the summer break (but that’s another story). ...

The state of the portuguese engineering student (from where I stand)

I have a really hard time getting to know people who like to do some programming and electronics hacks in my university (see hackaday for an example of what I’m talking about). ...

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