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This corner of the Web is maintained by Vitaly Potyarkin. I am a computer enthusiast, hobbyist programmer and an accidental system administrator for my household

I write a blog, publish some open source projects at GitHub and I enjoy receiving feedback and comments via email

Latest blog entries

• Pip-installable Pelican themes

  2022-06-10

  Installing Pelican themes the default way is not very pleasant: You need to invoke a separate CLI tool You may need to create some symlinks and ensure that they don't go stale the next time you use Pelican Some people (me) have resorted to git submodules instead of official CLI …
• Unexpected workaround for Libvirt VMs with cgroups v2 in Cirrus CI 2022-03-02
• D-Link DIR-825 (rev.B1) throughput test 2022-01-31
• Ansible apt module fails to install python3-apt on Debian Testing 2020-12-09
• Pegatron Cape 7 nettop (thin client) 2020-04-04
• Running Libvirt (KVM) in Cirrus CI 2020-02-25
• Cirrus CI integration for GitLab projects 2020-02-18
• Cygwin CI journey 2020-01-28
• Don't blindly trust Docker for the selfhosted stuff 2020-01-27
• Manage Python virtual environment from your Makefile 2019-10-01

Continue to older entries, full archive

See also

I maintain a public list of bookmarks and a blogroll. You may want to browse those when you're done with my writings. Here is a sneak peek:

Bookmarks

• Incarceration in Real Numbers
• "Idle chitchat" vs "smalltalk"
• 13 Propositions on an Internet for a “Burning World”
• Notes on the small web
• Marginalia Search

New articles from other interesting blogs

• Having one is often much easier than having more than one (Wandering Thoughts)
• A Guide Map for Reading the East Asian Canon (Scholar's Stage)
• Porting Doom to Helios (Drew DeVault's Blog)
• The Old Computer Challenge V2: back to RTC (Solène Rapenne)
• 13 Propositions on an Internet for a Burning World (Part 4) (Doing stupid things (with packets and OpenBSD))