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CloudSigma joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Happy to announce a partnership deal that I’ve been working with for some time.

Sync Dev: Using Sync For Backups In The Cloud (With Docker) Here’s a guest blog post that I wrote on Bittorrent’s blog a while back that I forgot to cross-post here.

Sophisticated new playlist editor in Screenly I’m very excited about this latest release we just did to Screenly.

This weekend I spent a bit of time playing around with my old MacBook Pro. My goal was to set it up as a backup/test laptop. What I wanted to accomplish was the following: Install Yosemite with Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Install Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS with FDE (using LVM) As it turns out, this was a lot more challenging than I thought. My initial approach …

Autojump: blazing fast filesystem navigation autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line I just ran across a very convenient little tool called autojump that I wanted to share. For a number of years, i’ve used aliases in Bash for quickly navigating the file system. autojump makes this unnecessary. OS X crash course …

Today I decided to take Yosemite for a spin on my old laptop. Since installing from USB is the only way to do a clean install, I started googling around for exact steps (which were somewhat messy). To my surprise, it appears as Apple also realized that this was messy and decided to bake in a solution for this. It isn’t however completely obvious, but here is …

Poorly implemented translations ‘logic’ is something that really grinds my gear. Today I ran across the new Dyson 360 Eye and it is a case study in how to not do website translations. Since I’m connected to a VPN in Switzerland, this is what I was presented with: As you can see, the website is in German just because I connected through Switzerland. Now let’s …

Linux Performance Tools A great collection of Linux tools for troubleshooting and improving performance.

I’m a big fan of Namecheap. They offer cheap SSL certificates that does the trick just fine. For most my projects, I go for their cheapest option (usually ‘PossitiveSSL’). Every time I deploy one of these certificates however, I screw up the order of the chain certificates. The tl;dr is that certificate should go first, and then the supporting chain …

This is very cool. The guys at Defcon sure knows how to geek out and create a challenge. Here’s the Badge Challenge Walkthrough.

TripIt insecurely broadcasts sensitive travel details in calendar feeds; could destroy your vacation httpshaming: Although I love using TripIt to organize my travel, if you subscribe to a TripIt calendar feed using an application like OS X or iOS Calendar, details about your past and upcoming travel is sent plaintext, unencrypted out over the net: Your name …

A while back, I stumbled across NomadList. It’s basically a crowd sourced list of cities around the world ranked by how good they are for remote working. That got me thinking. One of the pain points I’ve had over the years when traveling is finding the best local mobile carrier for pre-paid cards. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a crowd sourced database …