Adding Oracle Support PHP On Ubuntu Xenial
2017-04-24
Ordering Select Options With Javascript
2017-04-23
I’ve been building trivial web pages for automating tasks for years, but one of things that bothered me the most was having to manually order the OPTIONSs inside SELECTs. I don’t remember where I got the code from but just wanted to share
Use Just What You Need Out Of Bootstrap And Similar Frameworks
2017-04-21
If you know me, you’ll know I’m obsessed with speed. I like websites that are light and load quickly. At first I used WordPress because I knew how to optimize it and make it load quickly. I also used the GeneratePress theme because I loved how quickly it loaded. You can read this post to see why I migrated away.
Ghost introduced me to Markdown and I could never look back, but since I didn’t find any themes that I liked and the fact that Ghost looked as if it hadn’t been maintained in a while lead me to look for alternatives.
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Cropped Pagination Controls With Hugo
2017-04-11
I’m currently in the middle of migrating my blog (yet again) from Hexo to Hugo . Hexo is nice but I’m learning some HTML/CSS and decided to give Hugo a try and I liked the following about it
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Setting it up is just a matter of downloading a single EXE file and adding it to PATH, as opposed to having to install NodeJS, then Hexo
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Shortcodes are part of the theme, not a plugin
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Go themes are close enough to Jinja2 which I have been using for a couple of years now with Salt and Ansible
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In general, Hugo is easier to maintain in git as the whole folder can be tracked, whereas with Hexo, the node_modules folder needs to be in .gitignore
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Hugo supports multiple categories per post, whereas Hexo doesn’t
Allowing Read-Only Access To A Git Repository Via HTTP
2017-04-02
Today I thought about a way to easily distribute an Ansible playbook. I thought about having a tgz file somewhere but I wanted read only access through HTTP in case I wanted to update clients that have already downloaded the content.
The easiest solution I have found was using cgit . Simply run it with nginx and fcgiwrap .
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Hexo Deploy With Babun
2017-03-28
I have recently switched to Babun . It’s, IMHO, the best Windows shell so far. Combine it with TidyTabs and you have a very nice solution. But I was unable to get hexo deployment to work well with it so I had to use git bash. git bash would show a popup asking for my SSH key password while Babun wouldn’t.
I found the solution here , just enable the SSH-agent plugin in zsh
# ~/.zshrc
plugins=(git, ssh-agent)
You will just be prompted for the password of your SSH key when you start Babun.
No Output From Drush
2017-03-16
A while back Drush stopped working on my servers and it would just return without doing anything. Today I decided to finally debug the issue. Turns out the FreeBSD port just fetches the Phar archive and installs it.
After digging around I found the following post which says that Suhosin blocks Phar file execution. The fix turned out to be quite simple; Just edit the Suhosin ini file (in FreeBSD it’s /usr/local/etc/php/ext-30-suhosin.ini) and add the following after the “extension” line:
suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar
And you’re back in business :)
New Domain, Same Great Content
2016-11-23
I’ve been wanting to get shami.blog ever since the generic TLDs have been introduced.
Now I finally have it, welcome to the new domain :).
XBOX LIVE With pfSense
2016-10-07
A couple of months ago I switched from running OpenWRT on a TL-WDR4300 to running pfSense on a Netgate RCC-VE 2440 . Not that OpenWRT is bad, it’s only because I’m a big fan of FreeBSD and I’ve been wanting to run a similar setup ever since I discovered custom firmware like DD-WRT and afterwards m0n0wall and Soekris . When I finally decided to get the hardware I thought Netgate had a better offering and I went for it.
Hexo Photo Gallery
2016-09-27
So while I was migrating my data over from wordpress there were a few posts with photo galleries. The options I had were to write each photo gallery by hand or use the photos array in the front matter. What I did was change the photos array a bit and added the following code as a module
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