Blago's blog

This blog does not get updated very often, and there is a simple reason for that: most of my free time goes into a side project called Bor.

Note: this post is in Bulgarian, as it concerns the Bulgarian amateur radio license exam held by the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC).

♫ As the snow flies, On a cold and gray Chicago mornin’, An overworked dev logs in… “the daily.”

If you work on a project that primarily runs on Linux or another Unix-like environment but collaborate with colleagues on Windows, you’ve likely run into two recurring headaches: Inconsistent line endings (CRLF vs.

Introduction Have you ever needed to access a service running on a machine behind NAT—one where you can’t simply open a port and connect from the outside?

Together with Vasil, we organized a workshop about self-hosting in initLab, the hackerspace of Sofia.

On October 10th, I had the pleasure of joining Bogomil (Bogo) Shopov on the Bulgarian national radio program “Horizont” in their show “Izotopia” [🇫] to talk about some of the most pressing issues in technology today.

The whole project took about ~30 min, using some stuff around the living room and electrical tape.

In the age of information overload, it’s crucial to find the right tool that streamlines our online reading experience.

CSS theme for Miniflux with close colors to the Dracula theme.

Hey folks, hope you’re all doing well!

Old project which is useful for QA testing of mail servers and mail security appliances.

I don’t keep the code but it was really simple.

Update So, here is the code.

Hello, could you please generate lyrics for a new song of Manowar?

Well, we had a really bad experience with a host in Portugal.

In this way, it’s really comfortable to control the lamps without trying to find the switches at night :) I made it with two industrial joysticks bought from a local hardware shop.

If you are experiencing errors when installing Gluu, the Open Source digital identity server in LXD, this is because Gluu works in a chrooted environment by default.

Building from scratch machines with similar configuration is not very wise.

For the project I mentioned in the last post there was a requirement for running some Windows games on the computers.

Occasionally I’m giving technical support to foundation “Revival of the Bulgarian villages” (фондация Възраждане на българските села).

DeltaProXmlGen Two years ago I made a small desktop program for my girlfriend’s company.

It’s been a long time since my last post here.

This is my lighting talk from OpenFest 2017 It’s about the home automation in my appartment.

Quick post, first for 2017.

I made a HAProxy build with Debian-style config file because some of the haproxy.cfg files on my servers became really big.

Percona’s XtraBackup is really good solution for incremental backups if small or large MySQL/MariaDB databases.

To work with the root user and ssh keys is a common practice in the Ansible community.

It’s been a while since my last post here.

This is my first non technical post here.

Let’s assume that we need to setup VirtualBox VM with Windows XP and an old version of Microsoft Office.

Today Perl helped me again to solve a boring office problem.

In this post I’m going to explain you how to deploy really fast and cheap cluster of Linux Containers.

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Some of my Facebook friends have enough free time to repost stupid Facebook page images, Tumblr gifs and other crap.

It’s time to convert the physical disk to a virtual image.

There are a lot of dirty legacy Personal Computers which are online and cannot be reinstalled.

This year, on OpenFest 2013 I will talk about Ulteo OVD - Open Source Application Delivery system.

Zentyal, The Linux Small Business Server includes the most important services for a small or medium company.

Just a small dummy C project from the highschool, made probably in 2008.