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[Linux] Recovering a disconnected `apt dist-upgrade` session
Today I was updating my Proxmox install remotely via the built-in console, but forgot what I was doing and closed the tab mid-way. This resulted in me being unable to connect again as the packages were already being updated in the background and the upgrade has asked a question to replace a file and waiting
Hibiscus plant under the morning rays
Timelapse: Porto by the river
A few days ago we had a team meetup in Porto. Finally met a few of my colleagues that I have only seen over Zoom for the last two years. We spent a couple days at the amazing Porto I/O Riverside co-working space. The space has an awesome balcony that we generously enjoyed and had
[Linux] Syncthing – read-only file system when running as service
I’ve been using Syncthing for a while to synchronize my working copy with a local dev server for a few months. At first I was using it by logging in and running it manually through the CLI. It was working well, so I didn’t think twice when I moved to run it as a service.
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Lavender Sunset
Timelapse: A storm rolling over
Sunrays on yellow
Roses
Cloudy with a chance of tulips
Throwback to 2013 when I was visiting my grandpa at the village. Found this pretty tulip cut and thrown on the side of the road.
[Linux] Running multiple commands on multiple servers in parallel
I have a cluster of Raspberry Pi’s at home running Docker Swarm. To keep up with things, they’re using the same configuration – users, Docker versions, etc. Sometimes some of the updates require running the same thing on all the nodes of the cluster – for example – creating a new Docker macvlan network. To
Starry night
Recently we went on a holiday in the Bulgarian mountains. One of the nights, the sky was clear enough to give the new iPhone 12 night photo mode a shot. The initial attempts seemed a bit noisy and didn’t show too much details. Luckily I shared this photo with my cousin and he mentioned that
Weirdy the Snowman
Sometimes the snow is just too frozen to make a proper ball for a snowman. In these cases, why not build it, brick by brick or layer by layer, as if it was a Lego structure?
The Grasshopper
Found this little fellow chilling next to my car on one pretty cold morning.
The “Pencil”
We went to the mountains on a recent trip. It was a nice secluded place. Just a few houses and a restaurant. Next to an abandoned artificial lake/dam. The mosquitoes and the heat were our arch enemies, but we managed to make due. Since there wasn’t much to do around, we had to improvise activities.
Snowdrops
Throwback to 2007.
Guessing a numeric zip file password only with command-line utilities
Today I received my monthly invoice from my internet provider and something struck me as weird. The invoice, contained in the mail was in a ZIP file with a password. Not to say how strange it was to receive an attachment as a ZIP file in these days and times (spam, malware, phishing, etc.), the
Graffiti around the world: Burgas, Bulgaria
Recently I stumbled upon this photo from a friend of mine. Definitely fits the series!
The new wheel
On a recent trip in a mountain village, we found this truck, missing one of its rear wheels. Our son wasn’t happy that the truck was hurt, so we decided to improvise a wheel for it. After finding a water bottle cap, we used a little knife magic to remove part of the cap to
Dealing with spaghetti code in PHP: Using anonymous functions to extract pieces of template code
Recently I’ve been helping out a friend with trying to make sense of some code and how to modify it to work well with asynchronous calls to the backend. A bonus would be to be able to write it in a more modular and reusable way. The code is a WordPress plugin that was written
Graffiti around the world: Horses
Children playground in Sofia, Bulgaria
Timelapse: Evening landing at Toronto Pearson airport
Evening landing at Toronto Pearson airport – 28th September 2018
The Giraffe
A pretty pattern emerged while playing with Lego Duplo
Arduino/ESP32: Disabling the task watchdog
Recently I’ve been playing around with ESP32’s multicore functionality and task pinning to specific cores. I was using AutoConnect to support WiFi connection without storing credentials in the code and provide OTA updates via the web UI. This was for a project that was going to control some CPU 4-pin PWM fans that are in
🌼 & 🐝
When travel needs a break from travel
When a kid feels the travel cases need rest.
Graffiti around the world: Dublin
A few months back we went to Dublin on a trip and I was surprised with how many good graffiti artists are out there. Here are a few.
Setting up a YubiKey for Git commit signing
I’ve been using a YubiKey as a 2-Factor Authentication key and to sign my Git commits. Until a few days ago I’ve been using a YubiKey 4. Since my current computer doesn’t have any USB-A ports, I’ve been juggling a USB-A-to-USB-C adapters in my backpack and using the key has been a hassle for the
e1000e eth0: Detected Hardware Unit Hang
Recently my home server and VM host randomly started losing network connectivity. On the outside it seems that it was still working, but I was unable to access it in any remote way. The ethernet adapter seemed to be on, according to the switch, so the issue must have been somewhere in software. It wouldn’t
The pumpkin
Photo taken at Simple Food Punkt
Snippets: Running a local/private swarm Docker image registry
Today I was trying to generate a Docker image from a Node.js project and I wanted to deploy it on my local test swarm. Unfortunately if one builds a local Docker image, this image is stored and accessible only to the node it was created on and the other swarm nodes can’t access it. The
Timelapse: Taxiing and takeoff from Orlando International Airport
This was the start of the return trip home, after our amazing Automattic Grand Meetup for 2019 concluded. Good times with awesome people! 🤩
Timelapse: Landing in foggy Frankfurt
Frankfurt was one of the stops on the way to our annual Automattic Grand Meetup. This day was pretty foggy and the landing was pretty interesting experience. Flying over a woolen cloud blanket and then just like that, landed on the runway! Here’s a bonus photo of what was visible from the city during the
The Avocado: Sprouting!
This is our first successful attempt at sprouting an avocado!
Snippets: Map Apple Keyboard Section sign key to back quote ( § to ` )
I’ve been using the Apple keyboards for a while, but when you live in Europe it’s not easy to source the US layout ones that I’m used to. On macOS there’s an “easy” way to remap the keyboard with just a terminal command: watch -n1 -x hidutil property -m ‘{“ProductID”:592, “VendorID”:1452}’ –set ‘{“UserKeyMapping”:[{“HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc”:0x700000035,”HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst”:0x700000064}]}’ What this
Purple Flowers
Seen on a trip to Borovets, situated in Rila mountain.
Retro Museum
During our summer vacation on the Black Sea, we did a quick trip to Varna as we were at a resort close by. There we stumbled upon a very interesting Retro museum. I was very pleasantly surprised to find almost all the different things that I used when I was young. So many good memories
Sea of Daisies
Photo taken near Chorul.
Timelapse(s): Trip to Montserrat
On our recent team meetup that we had in Barcelona, we went on a trip to Montserrat mountain. We picked a very cloudy day, but still the clouds were high enough that we managed to see the valley, before it started raining. Here are two timelapses from that trip:
Timelapse: Landing at Barcelona airport
The Grey Cat
We found this fellow somewhere around home! Pretty one and loves treats!
Resetting/Restarting Apple TV remote
Last night during a guest visit, I managed to submerge our Apple TV remote under water. Lack of sleep and unstable glasses result in accidents. The remote was working well last night, but today it stopped working. Not responding to any actions. I tried bashing it in my hand, shaking water out of it. It
The old tram
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Biser Perchinkov (@biskobe) In the last days of 2018 we went to a secret party with some friends. The big surprise was where it was held! It was on one of the two oldest working trams in Bulgaria! It was built almost a century ago and
Amazing game soundtracks – Stellaris
A while ago I got myself Stellaris and quickly lost some hours in it. Here I’m not going to talk about the game itself. It has already been covered quite a lot in reviews, let’s plays and so on. Because I can’t explain how awesome it is in words, I’m just going to say – listen
Diving back in memories: Of roses and bees
A few days ago I was digging through my photo collection and stumbled upon one of my favorite shots. It’s an interesting story how this photo came to be. My dad had bought a new digital camera, a Canon PowerShot A610, a few days before that. I was eager to try it, but he didn’t
Dad things: Baby, you can’t pause an online game!
So… the circle is complete. Today, while enjoying the last few days of paternity leave, that the awesome Automattic allowed me to take, I decided to dive deep in the land of nostalgia and play some good old StarCraft. Sounds pretty normal, right? Why, yes, it is! Apart from having the baby in the office
Graffiti around the world – Montréal
A few weeks back I was at a team meetup in Montréal and while walking along the streets I enjoyed the grafitti culture there quite a lot. I loved how colorful and/or playful they are compared to other places I’ve been in the past. Some of my favorite:
Fear of dogs
When I was kid, probably around 5-6 years old, a neighbors dog bit me while playing with it. It wasn’t very serious, just a scratch, but to my child mind it was an awful experience. After the incident I developed a huge fear of dogs. I ran away from them and hid home or in
Ice skating
It’s been almost a month since the event, but I will never forget it 🙂 On the last day last year, my cousin suggested that we visit an ice rink. I have never been to one and I was deathly afraid of breaking all my bodily extensions. Luckily I had some experience in roller-blading when
Как да си извадим постоянен EORI номер по електронен път или защо хартията никога няма да умре.
Важно уточнение – статията е актуална към 2017 година 🙂 В коментарите има няколко обновления на процеса, разгледайте и тях. Обновление от коментар 1 Също така бях получил мейл от друг човек, препатил наскоро този процес (Септември 2020), но все още чакам информация от него какъв е процеса в момента. Ако все пак ви се
ЗЕТ и търговските съобщения (… непоисканите…)
Днес за пореден път се нагледах на “Според ЗЕТ, чл. 6 (1) това търговско съобщение може да е непоискано” и след това 5 страници бълвоч с разни глупости, без никакво форматиране, ясно отделени секции и т.н. Поради това, че ми писна да чета такива глупости се разрових в ЗЕТ да видя какво гласи тоя прословут
Фонетика и xorg
В някоя от последните версии на xorg, които се появиха около януари-февруари тази година, във фонетичната подредба са се промъкнали промени на някой, който изобщо не е мислил за редовия потребител и е искал да превърне фонетиката в БДС. Промените се изразяват в това, че са въведени знаците за горни и долни кавички, вместо
Removing iPhone passcode lock
Yesterday I had a few drinks and decided to put a passcode on my iPhone, just in case no one tries to crawl through it (stupid paranoia)… So I went on and put the passcode, typed it twice in the settings, set it to what I believed was the number I was typing and then
Last drops of battery…
Today I suffered a little blackout in my neighborhood in the evening and decided that it’s time to put my Acer 5935g’s battery to the test. I plugged out the power cord and continued my movie night with Dexter S02. So here is the final result of my little battery test: 1:30 hours – movies 35 minutes
Canon camera E16 error fix
This is just a repost of my Canon camera E16 error post in English. The story started yesterday, when my dad wrote me that his camera (Canon A610) screwed up and the only thing that it does is takes the lens out, takes it back in and then dies with “Error E16“ I searched around
Грешка E16 при фотоапарат Canon
Историята започна вчера, когато баща ми ми писа, че се е скапал фотоапарата (Canon A610) и единственото, което прави при пускане (в режим снимане) е да изкара обектива, да го прибере и на черен фон да изведе Error E16 Разтърсих се в интернет и повечето информация гласеше, че проблема е неизвестен и не се случва
iPhone 3.0
Уааааа…. радвам се като малко дете 😉 Вече се обзаведох с последната версия на iPhone OS, а именно дългоочакваната версия 3.0. На пръв поглед е голяма заигравка, докато се разучат новите (естествено полезните неща) в новия фирм. Ето някои, които аз лично намирам полезни: Spotlight (първи екран (нулев, ако считаме Home за първи) – много
IE daily
Ако по някой път, незнайно откъде, ви се ‘накъсват’ бордърите на някакъв елемент в ИЕ6,7, пробвайте да сложите background на елемента и има голям шанс да мине номера.
Will it Lens?
Пичовете в Google са яко изтрещяли 🙂 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/will-it-lens.html
Леля Ваца… или със старци на път
Приключение с влак от София до Монтана и старчески хумор в купето.
Тук?
История за един странен ден и покупката на DreamHost хостинг.