Dokku is advertising itself as a self hosted Platform as a service and it lives up to its promise. You can fairly easily deploy a range of applications like Ruby, Node.js, Go and so on. Basically everything beyond your standard PHP CMS like WordPress (but also that ;)). Dokku is easy to install and maintain. […]
Tag Archives: Linux
Visualize / Analyze Disk Space on Windows, Linux and Mac OS
Do you want to know which files on your computer take up a ton of space? I do, frequently. Being the system administrator at work and at home trying to keep my Dropbox on a free plan, because to be honest, how many files do really need to have access to at any point in […]
Nautilus / Nemo: Missing Image Previews on Linux [SOLVED]
A default limit to image files like .jpg, .png and similar causes Gnome Desktops not to generate image previews for them on Linux. If an image is larger than 10 MB, no preview will be displayed, but the default image icon. Here’s how to fix it:
Quick Fix: Run C# Code on Linux with Mono
Running C# (or C-Sharp) on Linux is pretty trivial unless you depend on something that’s a Windows specific library. I just came a cross a tiny bash script (rather alias) I wrote when I was a teacher, since I also taught basic programming with C#. Since I’m cleaning up an old hard drive I stumbled […]
Deploying your Golang App without Docker
How to deploy an app written in Go? That’s one of the questions I had when I first wanted to get something online after playing with Go for a while. Thinking back I think the first project I got online, was probably the redirect checker which is explained in detail here: Tracing or Preventing HTTP […]
Best Cheap VPS Hosting Comparison (2017)
What are the greatest and cheapest VPS servers out there? Here’s a list of providers that offer developer friendly virtual private servers that make it super easy to spin up a new server in minutes. My most common use cases for me are either starting new projects for pages, webcrawlers or to put client projects […]
[Solved] Linux Mint 18 not waking up from Suspend / Hibernate after Lid close
My Linux Mint 18 today was refusing to wake up from Suspend/Hibernate after I had closed the lid. It’s a little odd, because I went for the cinnamon and all other niceness installation variant, an image that wouldn’t even fit on a 2GB USB flash drive. The only thing I apparently had to do was […]
vnstat – Error: Interface “eth0” not available, exiting.
I recently came across this error message on one of my virtual private servers, where I was trying to have a closer look at the traffic. vnstat is a really cool tool for that sort of thing and on most Linux servers you should be able to install it with sudo apt-get install vnstat. I […]
How to use SSH keys for Authentication (for beginners)
SSH keys make my life easier on a daily basis. I use them to log into remote root and virtual private servers for various work and spare time projects, which is probably the most common use case. The point of an SSH key is to authenticate you with another host, also for example with a […]
GitKraken – Git GUI client with Linux support
For about a month now I’ve been using GitKraken every day, which has entered public beta some weeks ago. It’s quite a neat GUI client for git, making all kinds of tasks nicer to perform and the best thing: It’s really cross platform and available for Linux, my operating system of choice.