Recently I've been working on a new Python-based project, using Python 3.6.
Having the opportunity for a fresh start, I spent some time taking a look at how to best make use of the the modern tools for project setup, testing, static checking and so on, and how to …
Btrfs is a copy-on-write (CoW) filesystem available in the standard Linux kernel, which provides advanced features like snapshotting and volume management, similarly to what LVM provides.
I've been using LVM on my laptop for quite some time, to keep separate volumes for filesystem root and /home, and containers. LVM makes …
Installing a new workstation (or reinstalling one) is quite a boring task; the OS setup itself is pretty quick, but then you have to install all the tools and applications you use every day.
I end up reinstalling both my laptop and desktop quite often, almost every time a new …
Launchpad tracks how active a user is by assigning points to each activity that is performed, such as working with branches, managing bugs, packaging (uploading to PPAs), merge proposals. This resulting score constitutes the user "Karma".
Since I use Launchpad on a daily basis, I was curious about how my …
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