Accessing your console without a password

  1. In: Ops, Ubuntu
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When console access is already your primary security mechanism, the login password becomes redundant. Here’s how to disable it.

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Using pyinotify with eventlet

  1. In: Dev, Python
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How to make pyinotify work with eventlet by writing a custom notifier that uses select.select instead of select.poll.

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Setting terminal title to ssh hostname

  1. In: Ops, Ssh, Bash
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A bash function wrapper for SSH that automatically sets the terminal title to the target hostname, useful for tmux sessions on jumphosts.

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Provisioning handheld GPSs with Ansible

  1. In: Ops, Raspberry Pi, Ansible
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Automating the provisioning of 48 GPS units at once using Ansible and a Raspberry Pi, reducing per-unit setup time from 3 minutes to under 20 seconds.

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