Phylosophy, Technology

Alacritty config

May 25, 2020

In my previous post about WSL setup I mentioned that Alacritty gave me some glitches in the LF file manager. Here I will explain how I finally configured Alacritty and made it my main terminal emulator.

WSL Setup

May 21, 2020

In this post I will explain my WSL setup quickly. It will cover only following topics:

Configuration of WSL.
wsltty terminal emulator. I will explain why I use it, its benefits and limitations.
- Also I mention how you can launch X-Windows applications.
My colors setup.
My fonts setup.
My shell and tmux setup.

Here I am writing about WSL1, because this is the version I use today.

How VIM helps to learn regex

May 2, 2020

Many Linux users prefer to use simpler editors like Nano, because they found VIM confusing, unnecessary complex and too hard to use. Here I can explain you, how VIM helped me to better understand tools like sed, grep, rename, awk, less, etc. which use similar rules and logic.

WSL is a great tool

April 19, 2020

This post explains why I am using WSL in my work and why I like it. There are plenty of Linux purists who are not happy with the fact that Microsoft created WSL and even made their own Linux kernel for it with the help of Canonical¹ (It is the company which makes Ubuntu² distribution of Linux). But each coin has two sides. And here I will try to explain:

Why I use WSL and how I use it.
Why WSL is a great tool inside the Windows ecosystems.
Why I think, that WSL is not a threat, but a great help to Linux community.

COVID19 stats to Telegram (Python version)

April 1, 2020

Continuing my previous post about Covid19 stats.

I understand, that using Shell script to parse text table information from the site is not the most reliable method, although it is very quick and dirty to make.

Thankfully, the Coronavirus Tracker CLI project also provides statistics in JSON format. Which is more reliable and more predictable in its data structure.

COVID19 stats to Telegram (Shell version)

March 31, 2020

I was inspired by Luke Smith’s video¹ and made my own notification script about COVID19 stats in Germany and in the world. My setups is the following: Raspberry Pi with OpenHab automation platform with a Telegram binding.

WireGuard VPN setup on v-Linux (OpenVZ)

March 29, 2020

This post will explain you in details how to setup your own v-Linux server on OpenVZ platform as VPN server with WireGuard VPN.

There are many tutorials about setting up your own WireGuard VPN, but only few cover aspect of installing it on the Linux VM which runs on top of OpenVZ (Virtuozzo hypervisor). And also this tutorial will cover following aspects:

Installation of WireGuard VPN (wireguard-go version).
Configuration which supports two different concentrators on the same server:
- One for your private use another one for other users, e.g. your friends, colleagues, etc.
- Or it can be two (or more) groups of users in your organization.
IPv4 and IPv6 configuration covering:
- Forwarding and NAT
- Isolation of clients: blocking of inter-group (communication between groups) and intra-group (communication between peers in the group) traffic.
DNS server configuration (Unbound).
Clients configuration.