I discovered a lot of tools this year, most of them I now rely on daily. So I thought it would be a nice time to share them with various custom configs I wrote.

TL;DR: install zoxide, direnv, starship and atuin and have this in your .zshrc (or .bashrc …

As part of my work to uniformize my server setup around systemd, I decided to make nginx log everything with journald. By default, it logs accesses and errors in log files under /var/log/nginx. I already had one log file per vhost.

To do the change, I changed my …

Podman is an alternative to Docker and Docker compose. It uses the same CLI interface than Docker and uses the same standardized image format. So you can use an image built with Docker with it or build an image and then use it with Docker. Its podman-compose command is compatible …

After using anacron for years to run a backup script regularly, I decided to have a look at systemd timers. Overall, anacron worked fine: I could run tasks as my user and it would start tasks if they missed a run. But, I was still frustrated with how it worked …

You can run scripts (written in Python or any other language) directly on a server if the proper interpreter is installed. I recently used it to run a Python script over several servers without the need to copy the relevant script on the server. It all relies on the following …

After several years of ZSH with oh-my-zsh, I decided to give fish (Friendly Interactive Shell). I heard and read several good things about it. I also wanted to test starship (a cross shell prompt) easily without messing with my ZSH configuration.

The least I can say is: I'm impressed. Most …

This article is a follow up to Installing openSUSE next to Fedora with BTRFS where I detailed how I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed. In this article, now that I have been using Tumbleweed for about 2 months and a half, I'll give some feedback on my experience.

The issues I …

Update: My feedback article is now available.

I wanted to install openSUSE Tumbleweed (the rolling release version of openSUSE) on one of my computers to see how it looked outside a VM (and thus to try to use it daily). I am thinking about switching to this distribution to avoid …