Bits Thoughts & More, hugo based

git submodules & hugo themes

Sat, 17 May 2025 15:21:29 +0300

So you are up and running with a hugo theme, you set is as submodule and carry on blogging.

As with most things in tech, people projects are also ephemeral. so you get to fork and fix stuff in your fork. So you end up having to fix submodule links. and this is were we are at..

you do you fork so you nee to update the submodule
remove the previous one and add your own
navigate to the correct path you linked the submodule and git fetch
go back and commit with git add ....

making a post with assets

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

There is also the option to make post with assets (images, other media or files). In order to organize things right you just create a directory with the post name put your assets there and make the references in the index.md file

Immich in Docker

Fri, 17 May 2024 15:21:29 +0300

Immich (github) is a media library tool.

At some point I’ve lost my QNAP drives (both at the almost the same time) and wanted to check if I could replace the PhotoStation with an opensource tool.

Immich was one of the candidates but if has a major drawback for me. I dislike that it renames the files you upload/import/sync with it. Although it allows you to download them and the metadata it keeps (in a database) contain all the info and the result you get is the original filenames, you cannot suddenly stop using it and pick the file structure and use it. If you lose the database you have to manually rename and organize all files which can be practically impossible if you have several thousand images or videos in your library.

Adding Emoji in Hugo Post :smile:

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:39:09 +0300

I’ve seen a particular Hugo theme called hello-friend which I liked and choose to start with it. However, in a post I thought of adding an emoji (a simple :smile:). But it didn’t work, and the reason is that the template did not use a parsing for them. However Hugo supports them, and I only hade to change this in one place in the template to make it work. So in themes/hello-friend/layouts/_default/single.html change :

Dumpster Dive

Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:44:21 +0300

When I moved long time ago, most of my stuff where kind of put in boxes without labels.. as a result, especially those not really critical (never keep that stuff, they become expensive in various terms - time, space, sanity) they become forgotten and clutter.

So far I’ve found

old mobile phones
network components (switches, ISDN routers, access points)
handheld devices
hard disks
old desktop computers
motherboards
cables (serial, parallel, scsi, tons of usb-A)
PSUs
voip phones, ATAs
magazines, books, manuals
cdroms, floppy disks, even 8mm tapes (films)

pictures, photos, manuals, skus and possibly links to get these will be added later.

adding a post by adding a file

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:56:02 +0300

So how about just create a new file in the correct file structure and not use the hugo new post? as it turns out it works exactly as expected… So hugo just needs this footer.. and that is all!

+++
title = 'adding a post by adding a file'
date = 2024-04-18T12:56:02+03:00
tags = ['hugo', 'blogging']
lastModDisplay = "Modified:"
draft = "false"
+++

Depending on theme you should be able to see this emoji rendered or not.. :smile:

Blogging with Hugo

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 12:56:02 +0300

Following a guide from Ryan in youtube.. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIFvgrRxdt4)

What you need:

2 repos, one for the code of the site and one to deploy (we are going to use github pages)

Those two repos will be joined using git submodule.

In the code repo do: git submodule add -b main <github pages repo> public Where the -b main is the branch of the repo, abd public is the folder that will be linked within the code repo and will point to that branch of the github pages repo.

letsencrypt and traefik with docker compose

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

problem statement

In a free tier oci instance I wanted to have a single point of entry with TLS and valid certs I also wanted to have multiple containers served using a wildcard domain. Also needed to be able to add new containers and immediately have them available with cert and fqdn

BOM

traefik
duckdns
letsencrypt
docker compose
env-file for docker compose

docker compose

This is the choice for deploying services.

elasticsearch notes from a slack app

Wed, 29 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

creating a small app with ES as backend

This is a series about a slack related app where we use ES as the backend for every event we would possibly like to store for analysis.

There are few things we need to consider and the first is related to the fields provided by the slack api that are related to dates and timestamps.

Most of them are ending with ts. By storing all events in ES we can then go and identify them.

Elastic Components Notes

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

elasticsearch components

apm server

running an apm-server for testing purposes in your local machine (here is mac) $GOPATH/bin/apm-server run -v -e -c ~/citrix/testing-apm/apm-server.yml -E apm-server.expvar.enabled=true

test an apm server

Make 2 files for running the server and the hey-apm benchmarking tool for it

Partition From Xen Instance

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 16:58:19 +0300

How to mount partition from xen instance

This below describes the way to mount an LVM partition that exists within a partition from a multi-partition disk image.

Let assume our image is called System.img

We will need losetup, kpartx and vgscan,vgchange commands.

With losetup -f you will identify free loopback devices. let say this is loop6.

```
losetup /dev/loop6 ./System.img
```

This will mount the disk image in the loop device.

Docker Registry

Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

how to move a docker image to another registry (example push to localhost registry)

first you need to tag an existing image to another name containing the target registry do a docker images to get a list of images already downloaded command below tags redis:3-alpine as localhost:5000/redis:3-alpine

docker tag redis:3-alpine localhost:5000/redis:3-alpine

then just push the new tag

docker push localhost:5000/redis:3-alpine

and with a curl you can see the output of the catalog in our 127.0.0.1 (localhost) registry

curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/_catalog

more info : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31251356/how-to-get-a-list-of-images-on-docker-registry-v2

curl auth with cookie

Wed, 18 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

use curl to simulate authentication in apis that provide a cookie via auth endpoint (nimbula was using this)

curl -kc ./authtokens -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/plain" -d '{"result": null, "password": "testpassword", "uri": null, "user": "/test/user"}' https://<server>:445/authenticate/

then you can use the cookie from the file to get something:

curl -k -b ./authtokens -X GET "https://<server>:445/node/"

About me and the blog

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there!

This is a blog about random stuff from tech industry (mostly). I normally keep notes for things I encounter at home, hobbies or work.

Personal notes, or things that caught my eye and tried myself. There are quite a few, most of them old, but were hidden/lost in various locations and I’ll try to collect them all here.

Enjoy

Bits Thoughts & More, hugo based

git submodules & hugo themes

making a post with assets

Immich in Docker

Adding Emoji in Hugo Post :smile:

Dumpster Dive

adding a post by adding a file

Blogging with Hugo

letsencrypt and traefik with docker compose

problem statement #

BOM #

docker compose #

elasticsearch notes from a slack app

creating a small app with ES as backend #

Elastic Components Notes

elasticsearch components #

apm server #

config: #

troubleshooting #

sizing: #

testing/stressing: #

agent: #

test an apm server #

Partition From Xen Instance

How to mount partition from xen instance #

Docker Registry

how to move a docker image to another registry (example push to localhost registry) #

and with a curl you can see the output of the catalog in our 127.0.0.1 (localhost) registry #

curl auth with cookie

About me and the blog

problem statement

BOM

docker compose

creating a small app with ES as backend

elasticsearch components

apm server

config:

troubleshooting

sizing:

testing/stressing:

agent:

test an apm server

How to mount partition from xen instance

how to move a docker image to another registry (example push to localhost registry)

and with a curl you can see the output of the catalog in our 127.0.0.1 (localhost) registry