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I got a new domain! This blog is now available on https://www.perrotta.dev/. There’s also a redirect to it from https://blog.perrotta.dev/. ...

I got myself a brand new domain! As I play with it, expect documentation to be added. How to query the WHOIS for the domain? ...

This post is a follow-up of Terraforming a Linode: hello world. In a future post, we will continue from here by using Ansible to install and set up Miniflux in our new Linode. Before we extensively use Ansible to configure our VPS instance, first let’s set up a basic integration between Terraform and Ansible. ...

I host my own Miniflux instance, which happens to be my favorite RSS reader. Currently it is hosted on Linode (Akamai Cloud) running Alpine Linux. My current setup was performed manually. I was thinking that, for fun, it would be cool to fully automate it under the principles of IaC. ...

Not everything is available via RSS. However, there are some decent workarounds in a few situations. ...

From the homepage: Gemini is a new internet protocol which: Is heavier than gopher Is lighter than the web Will not replace either Strives for maximum power to weight ratio Takes user privacy very seriously That’s too abstract though. I prefer the way Kev Quirk puts it: To put that into human-digestible form; Gemini is basically a very light, text-only alternative to HTML. ...

My search engine of choice is Google, nonetheless I still enjoy DuckDuckGo occasionally. The main reason to stick with Google is its superior quality, by the means of better search results. 20 years later, it’s still arguably the best search engine. Of course, part of the reason for that is contingent upon how much data it collects, but that’s a topic for another day… There are at least three reasons to use DuckDuckGo as an alternative: it’s privacy-focused, there’s no tracking and no bubbling1 its search results stem from sources other than Google; these days, mostly from Bing it has !bangs, lots of them The quest(ion) then becomes: How can I use mostly Google, but still have quick access to DuckDuckGo bangs? ...

This post covers how to add DNS entries / mappings to a local network managed with pihole. ...

Recently I needed to figure out what the IP address of my pihole instance was in my Raspberry Pi in my local network. ...

Here’s how we can enable automatic (unattended) package upgrades in Debian. ...