Linux Archives

Current Spotify song in tmux

Post published:January 12, 2021
Post Author:Claes-Magnus Berg
Post Category:bash / Linux
Post Comments:0 Comments

I made a small, cute bash script to display the currently playing song on Spotify. My initial ambition was to use it with tmux, but soon I began to think…

Running Docker containers on Bash on Windows

Post published:April 19, 2017
Post Author:Tomas Aschan
Post Category:Linux / Other / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:96 Comments

When the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - or, as most people even at Microsoft often refer to it - Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - was announced on Microsoft's…

Layered Cloudformation stacks

Post published:March 30, 2016
Post Author:Johan Nordenswan
Post Category:Agile / Architecture / Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:2 Comments

Defining information service infrastructures using AWS Cloudformation can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword. On the one hand it provides us with a high degree of control regarding consistency, on…

Replacing the default VPC in your AWS account

Post published:March 15, 2016
Post Author:Johan Nordenswan
Post Category:Architecture / Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:4 Comments

AWS Cloudformation is a super-powerful utility for defining entire backend infrastructures. Using it we can declaratively define infrastructure components and their inter-dependencies, then instantiate them all in one go. This…

A cross-platform interactive C# script editor

Post published:March 9, 2016
Post Author:Christian Jacobsen
Post Category:.Net / JavaScript / Linux
Post Comments:5 Comments

This is a follow up post on Using Roslyn to build a simple C# interactive script engine In this post I will explore the possibilities of making a REPL as…

Installing and using the AWS CLI and aws-shell in an agile fashion

Post published:March 1, 2016
Post Author:Johan Nordenswan
Post Category:Agile / Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:0 Comments

In our work we often encounter AWS installations under various accounts. Using the web-based console is straightforward, but for repetitive tasks and more advanced interaction we often rely on Amazons…

Simple Clustering with Docker Swarm and Nginx

Post published:November 25, 2015
Post Author:Anders Janmyr
Post Category:Architecture / Cloud / DevOps / Linux
Post Comments:11 Comments

Bringing up your own cluster has never been easier. The recent 1.0 release of Docker Swarm signals that the Docker team feel that Swarm is ready for production. I've been…

Ubuntu full-disk encrypted, alongside MacOSX

Post published:November 22, 2015
Post Author:Hugo Josefson
Post Category:Linux / Security / Tips & Tricks / Tools & Workflows
Post Comments:21 Comments

If you, like me, prefer to use Ubuntu on any hardware you use, and want it completely encrypted, this is for you. These are instructions on how to install Ubuntu…

Simple load testing using Siege

Post published:October 21, 2015
Post Author:Mattias Lindskog
Post Category:Cloud / DevOps / Linux / Tips & Tricks / Web
Post Comments:1 Comment

In a recent project we replaced an existing webapp with a new implementation. The old app got around 300 requests/second so we wanted to make sure that the new implementation…

Exploring cross-platform development using .NET

Post published:July 20, 2015
Post Author:Christian Jacobsen
Post Category:.Net / Linux
Post Comments:0 Comments

This is a follow up post on Getting started with .NET on Linux. In this post I'll explore the new cross-platform .NET framework to see if it's possible to develop…