Use non-standard named ssh keys with github
I was getting when trying to push to GH using ssh. When I tested the connection I saw that a bunch of keys in ``~/.ssh/ were being attempted None of those were the key I setup with…
Quick tips and learnings
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latest post 2026-04-03
Publishing rhythm
Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible
this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP
Adding docker daemon.json broke docker
in /lib/systemd/system/ docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told the daemon what hosts…
suda.vim for sudo access to files
I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example… I’ll want to play with something but if I don’t start Neovim as root then I get in troubl…
Pipe to a pager to preserve console output in SSH session
I’m playing with my ansible playbook in a remote tmux session, and I’m no wiz so I don’t know the ins and outs, but I can’t scroll up to get any console log output that’s not alrea…
Cron for Nextcloud in Docker
AJAX wasn’t cutting it, traditional crontab in containers doesn’t make much sense to me, webcron is recommended but I don’t want to register with anything outside my LAN… Turns out…
Call basicConfig to get Python log messages in iPython
Logging instead of printing I am trying to adopt instead of but ran into a confusing thing in ipython during Advent of Code… I riddled by script with (yes after setting) but in ipy…
New lines in Markdown tables
I wanted to break down some long lines in a Markdown table cell to make it look nicer on my blog but \n didn’t do anything for me… turns out is the magic sauce
Make a series of directories fast!
mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, … s10 in one command!
Case-insensitive search in Vim
/mysearch\c will match mysearch, MYSEARCH, mYSeArCh…