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Sync Dev: Securely Deploying Sync BitTorrent’s blog re-posted by Sync article today.

» How to securely use BitTorrent Sync for backups I just published an article on CloudSigma.com on how to securely deploy BitTorrent Sync in the cloud with step-by-step instructions.

We all have those old blogs that we started some time ago with some grandiose vision. Unfortunately, the blog never really took off. Now it just sits there and generate a small amount of traffic every day. It’s enough to not shut it down, but not enough to invest a whole lot more resources into. Chances are that said blog is running on WordPress. You now …

I’m really excited to let you know that Screenly is featured in the latest issue of Linux User in the U.K. (issue 146). A snippet of the article is already up on their website. We’ve also teamed up with Linux User to give a way a free 12 month subscription of Screenly, along with a HDMIPi.

In recent years, I’ve transitioned over to using Ubuntu’s UFW. In most cases, it gets the job done and it is easy to manage via provisioning tools like Ansible. As turns out however, using UFW together with Docker can be very dangerous as I will show below. Let’s start with an Ubuntu 14.04 server. It has UFW and Docker installed already, so let’s start by …

I really like BitTorrent Sync. It’s a great alternative to Dropbox et al, without having to hand over your unencrypted data to a third party. Unfortunately, the default configuration in BitTorrent Sync for Mac OS X is somewhat odd. As it turns out, it syncs all of Finder’s meta data. As you can imagine, this means a lot of pointless syncing. After posting on …

» An introduction to server provisioning with CloudInit I just published an article over at CloudSigma’s blog about server provisioning using CloudInit.

In the past, I’ve relied a lot on Puppet for automation. That means that I have a fair number of Puppet masters at my disposals. Puppet is a Ruby based application. As many Ruby based applications, it depends on a fairly large number of other libraries. Having to install all these packages on a brand new server is a pity. In addition, the recommended …

Yay, Blotter is currently the 9th best selling productivity app in the U.S. Mac App Store!

Every time I install OS X, I get very frustrated with the default keyboard settings. Perhaps the most frustrating one is how slow the navigation is when you’re using the arrow keys to move around in text blocks. Fortunately, it is easy to change the settings. To make the keyboard navigation faster, you need to toggle the following two settings: The next …

Tor is a project that I really love to support. In this age of increased surveillance, Tor is needed more than ever. Unfortunately, your own Tor Exit Node can put you in a lot of trouble due to the fact that Tor being used for all kinds of abuses. This is unfortunately a the reality of anonymity; some people will abuse it. Yet, we shall not let this …

Yesterday I had to hand in my almost new MacBook Pro (Retina) for repair due to a broken logic board. This meant that I had to go back to my old laptop for a little bit. In preparation for this, I dusted off my old MacBook Pro this weekend so that I would have something from in the meantime. Since it was due for an upgrade, I decided to install the Yosemite …