There are many tutorials explaining how to enlarge a working root partition installed on LVM. Shrinking, however, it's another deal. If it's a VM that you resize, it's not a big problem. But what if you want to resize the host OS itself? That what happened to me lately and I share here my solution to the problem.

Below I present a smiple script that automates the process of making a backup using the power of LVM. Provided that you have your root on LVM partition you can then make a live backup on your working system with zero down-time.

The real challenge is not installing it, but configuring it properly. The official documentation is lacking some key components - in particular regarding configuring reversed proxy in webserver. Below I share my experience and configuration that lead me to having working Gitea installation.

Finding the proper way of installing, upgrading and using python-pip seems to be a daunting task as many packages are not backward-compatible. Below I present common practices about how to set up Python environment and mention about old, deprecated solutions that you may still hear about.

Ncdu is a CLI disk usage analyzer that shows what directories / files occupy the most disk space and then show a nice ncurses graph to visualize it. Quite recently it acquired an option to output colored version. As always with Debian, months or years will pass until it’ll reach upstream repos and even then there will be little chance(...)

Deploy your Jekyll webpage with Netlify. Get CDN, Continuous deployment, One click dead simple Let's Encrypt HTTPS, and all the services you need. Set it and forget it!

Having used Jekyll as the blog engine I decided to store my entire web page in the git repository. This lets me fiddle with design and writing drafts, but what about big files? Pushing images to git repo is not a desired solution. Instead, try to store it elsewhere. Like in AWS S3 / Digital Ocean object storage space.

A simple extension to Dropbox Uploader that provides a convenient method to share your Dropbox files with one click! Read about how to install and what to expect!

The script measures an in/outbound network traffic and logs in given intervals. If the amount of data sent from the server don't exceeds a set limit, the server suspends itself. It's a very useful script intended to use in home servers that are not meant to be turned on constantly.

You spend the first 20-something years of your life musing about how you'll use the rest that are left. If you are lucky, you hit on an idea. Then you spend next decade on actual learning the skills you will need to achieve your goal. Oh, by the way - there is life. Your private life.

This is a simple PHP script that scans the content of a directory for photos and automatically generates a image gallery. Exif data is read and put into photo's captions. Thumbnails are allocated in Bootstrap responsive, scalable grid. Images can be smoothly previewed thanks to lightbox javascript. CSS stylesheet is generated from SASS .scss for faster development.