George Georgovassilis writes about information technology architecture
New day, new gear. This post is about Ubuntu on the HP Victus 16-e0033nv and continues the long list of Ubuntu on laptops: Acer Nitro 5, HP ProBook, Asus VivoBook, Lenovo Thinkpad and probably others I'm forgetting about right now. The laptop comes with Windows 11 which I used mainly for a BIOS update. The … Continue reading Ubuntu 22.04 on the HP Victus
I frequently write in multiple languages and switching keyboards is cumbersome, especially when the written languages differ only by a few characters. With regard to German, I'd like a US Windows keyboard layout with German umlauts that are a bit easier accessible than the 3-stroke combination of the US international layout (which has combinations like … Continue reading English Windows keyboard with German umlauts
[update 2025.10.29] abstract, minor clarification edits. TL;DR Program HAproxy with LUA to extract information from backends and set response headers/status codes. I'm using HAproxy to load-balance HTTP between two backend nodes. HAproxy is pretty smart about doing this, backing off failing backend nodes, retrying failed requests on healthy backend nodes etc. Recently I got a … Continue reading Convert HTTP response body to status code with HAproxy
Disabling audio and video auto play in Firefox over the settings page doesn't work reliably at the time of writing (v111). I found this setting to get the job done: type about:config in the address bar Find the setting media.autoplay.blocking_policy Set it to the value 2
I like to include smoke tests [ST] in my Terraform [TF] deployments just to make sure I didn't overlook anything obvious. One such way is to interact with a resource that invokes other resources, such as an HTTP endpoint that is routed through API gateways, application containers and databases. An easy and portable way to … Continue reading Testing a Terraform resource deployment
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