Raspberry Pi Powered Fireplace
cooperlees Mr Aijay Adams and I am back making my Fireplace Internet / Smart device controllable. Now, via a very sexy Web UI, when I'm heading back to Chateau Tahoe, I…
nftables
Are you using the latest Linux kernel firewall?. Here are some notes I've saved that I use and forget all the time. I plan to add to this as I…
RPM vs OPKG Cheat Sheet
<p>Recently in the <a href="https://terragraph.com/">Terragraph</a> project I work on we changed from RPM to OPKG to removes some dependencies (e.g. perl) and make our overall image size smaller. I've never…
Ansible + Handy PyPI CLI Tools
I often use a lot of PyPI CLI tools. Here is an example of how to get them easily installed and kept up to date via Ansible on Ubuntu >=…
IPv6 + Flow labels
Recently a teammate and I have come across a frame forwarding issue with ECMP on a hardware ASIC in a device I work on where the use of Flow labels…
NXOS Simple IPv6 BGP Peering
It took me far to long to find out how to config this, so I'm sharing it to be more searching on the Internets. Scenario: - NXOS BGP 'upsteam' /…
Python pip ‘editable’ installing
From time to time I get asked (and I even have to ask a coworker) for the best way to install a Python modules (especially ones with entry points) into…
BitBucket + hg + branch merges
Ever have to update/merge a PR on BitBucket with Mercurial? I couldn't find documentation anywhere, so doing so here: hg up BOOKMARK_NAME hg merge -r REV If EDITOR is not…
Python 3.7 – The best Python Release Ever!
Especially because: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/47320a652e872003f3dd3a9db4243067b09dd316#diff-c6a3fa0ad7b17f8e32f340835a4e5353 🙂
GitHub + Rebasing from upstream/master to origin/master
So, every now and then on a PR I need to rebase and fix things so I can retest etc. - I always forget this so blogging it to remember.…