Blog on Ivan Tomica

I've since evolved this script a bit and have published it on GitHub: [https://github.com/ivantomica/AWSVault](https://github.com/ivantomica/AWSVault) To log in into AWS I prefer to use small function which calls aws-vault utility and gets URL to login to…

For most of my private email needs I prefer to use Mu4e within Emacs.

I have been previously installing Ubuntu on ZFS (root-on-zfs) and since then I’ve transitioned to Fedora, on ext4+lvm, to avoid much complication and hassle.

Obviously, I've decided to revert this decision on new articles again.

In order to expand ZFS pool first step is to resize underlying disk.

Prompted by the excellent article at RedHat’s blog on the topic of “What my family thinks I do all day?

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to solve few particular set of problems which I won’t go into detail here, perhaps in another post.

I had this problem with playing Netflix videos in Firefox on Fedora where even at video preview-s I would constantly get yellow bar with the message that Widevine Content Decryption Module, required for playing DRM content Netflix serves, has in fact cras…

More than 3 years ago I’ve written an article about self-hosting email.

There is this nice utility which helps you with managing AWS credentials called aws-vault .

ZFS is really nice filesystem and I use it wherever I can.

Having wildcard SSL certificate can sometimes really help with streamlining vhost creation, where you don’t need to step extra step for issuing new SSL/TLS certificate.

Until recently I solely used TinyTinyRSS for staying on top of the various news, following application releases/updates and so on.

Since recently I’m an Emacs user, and as such I like to have my Emacs everywhere.

Although recently I’ve switched most of my workflow into the Emacs ?

Since I’m using AwesomeWM as my WM of choice and I try to keep my app list to minimal, I don’t really have graphical PDF client such as Evince.

Those familiar with PostgreSQL know how it internally manages blocks for storing data and how when you delete some entry it is only marked dead (dead tuples).

I’ve been hosting my Gitlab instance for some time now.

When apache reports no space left on device: couldn't create accept lock and you’ve checked both disk space and inode usage of disk and they both report as fine check active semaphores: ipcs -s If there’s high number of them, Apache probably hasn’t clear…

Recently I started experimenting with Flatpak.

First off, what is kexec?

Ever since I’ve set up EFI boot on my machine using grub I had this issue with timeout option not wanting to go away.

My main rig is running Ubuntu 18.04.

Recently I’ve been tasked to set up Confluence server installation.

URxvt, or if you wish to call it rxvt-unicode, has this weird thing turned on by default where it binds ctrl+shift keys to all sorts of insanity (keycap picture insert mode and stuff like that).

Although I don’t use IRC as much as I used to do I still have ZNC set up to connect and keep me joined in channels.

When Firefox decided to change the shell of the browser and move to WebExtensions (same format of extensions as used by Chrome) you have not been able to change the interface as you wished anymore via browser extension.

I’ve been using Mutt for quite some time now and I find it great due to many things such as: Very lightweight - I’m able to use it on any machine without making the machine unresponsive like with Thunderbird or Evolution when they decide to pull all of the

With the release of Juno I decided to give it a try and pretty much liked it on laptop.

When I was setting up Macbook I selected Croatian keyboard layout and for some reason it was defined as default from that moment for login screen.

Prefix thing you’re searching for with: ^ for matches in your browsing history. * for matches in your bookmarks. % for matches in your currently open tabs. # for matches in page titles. @ for matches in web addresses.

Moving around: CTRL + A # beginning of the current line CTRL + E # end of the current line Alt + F # one word forward Alt + B # one word back Text manipulation: CTRL + U # delete characters before cursor CTRL + K # delete characters after cursor CTRL + W…

By default proc is mounted in a way that allows inspection of other users processes by any account on the system.

ProcFS in Linux has many useful information about process and its status.

Ever since Symless (company behind Synergy product) has published “cloud based Synergy 2 service” I had nothing but problems and headaches with it.

Some of the shortcuts I find useful in Vim, but sometimes I fail to remember some of them :-) Navigation gj and gk - move down and up by virtual lines gg - beginning of the file G - end of file 25G - 25th line w - beginning of the next word W - beginning…

These days, one of the drives on one of my machines started developing bad habits of reallocating blocks which is an early sign that drive might go bad.

When I set up ZFS on my main rig I was kind of doing it “fast as possible” and haven’t paid attention to much details.

Here’s the link to the excellent guide on how to install Mastodon instance on FreeBSD.

CSH is the default shell for root user on FreeBSD system.

So I’ve been battling with this issue for quite some time now.

Install sassc which is a dependency for building assets: sudo dnf install sassc Clone GIT repository: git clone https://github.com/system76/pop-gtk-theme.git Switch directory and build the themes: cd pop-gtk-theme make make assets Finally, install the…

To run latest Minecraft 1.12.1 (as of this writing) within FreeBSD Jail you need few things.

One of the main reasons for setting up ZNC bouncer for me was to be able to have same IRC account on multiple computers and have messages synced across them.

I’ve recently set up ZNC - an IRC bouncer , to help me stay logged in on IRC.

This one is fairly simple.

Using Ansible with FreeBSD as a managed node might not be straight forward as using some Linux distribution as, by default, FreeBSD doesn’t have Python interpreter installed which is needed for remote command execution in Ansible.

Although I use tmux primarily for my “multiplexing needs” I hop into screen from time to time as well.

I’ve been using password-store utility for saving my passwords in GPG encrypted files.