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This article describes a way to use Docker containers as lightweight virtual machines suitable for building software. Containerizing build environments makes it possible to build with different Linux distributions and to isolate the build environment from the host system, with only a negligible performance penalty.

This article demonstrates how to configure and run Gunicorn directly from Python 3 code without using configuration files or invoking gunicorn from the command line.

It also demonstrates how to setup a stateful backend with Gunicorn where a single Python object is kept alive between requests such that it can …

Note'n'Todos is an open source web app for managing personal notes and todos. The notes are written in markdown and have time stamps, tags and embedded todos. The back end stores the notes as plain text files on the server.

Ghee is a cooking fat that tolerates higher temperatures and lasts a lot longer on the shelf compared to regular butter. It has an amazing smell of buttery baked goods and caramel. Proponents say it's a healthy food item loaded with natural antioxidants, vitamins and healthy types of fat, and …

This is a guide for installing AWStats on an Ubuntu 20.04 server for website analytics of multiple virtual hosts served by Nginx.

AWStats is a venerable log analyzer going all the way back to year 2000. But it is still one of the better free web analytics solutions that …

Using Git as an experienced hg / Mercurial user can be frustrating. I can say that from personal experience. There is no free GUI for Git that match the power and ease of use of TortoiseHg workbench, and some terms in Git just annoy hg users to no end, like what …

Some time ago I stumbled on the fabulous Classic Tetris World Championship videos on YouTube and started binge watching the masters beat the heck out of good old NES Tetris. These awesome videos reinvigorated my dormant Tetris itch and started this whole thing.

I'm no stranger to Tetris and can …

The clipboard cut, copy and paste functions can be a great timesaver when organizing files.

But there didn't seem to be an obvious way to use those functions with the command line in Linux while targeting the main clipboard of the desktop environment such that files can be transferred between …