Posted on Sat 13 June 2026 in TEEs • Tagged with tees , tdx , sgx , go , podman , docker , containers , oasis , rofl , cli
Confidential apps are great! But they are so complex to build and deploy... are they really?
I will show you how to create your first confidential Go app running inside an Intel TDX VM with Oasis ROFL in a matter of minutes. Here is a sneak peek:
Continue reading to find out more...
Posted on Fri 24 April 2026 in Shell • Tagged with bash , colors , fedora , containers , toolbox
Do you still use the default green-colored Bash prompt?
Then it's time to upgrade to a much improved shell UX using the Bash Color Prompt (bcp).
Results:
Posted on Sun 26 November 2017 in Fedora • Tagged with copr , fedora , epel
When creating a Copr project, one can specify which chroots, i.e. which
distribution version and architecture combinations, to enable. Examples of
chroots are fedora-27-x86_64, epel-7-ppc64le, fedora-rawhide-i386 etc.
However, there is no easy to use option to enable testing repositories, e.g.
the updates-testing repository for Fedora
Branched and stable releases, when specifying the chroots.
Let me show you how you can easily achieve that by specifying an extra
repository with a parameterized URL.
Posted on Mon 04 September 2017 in Hardware • Tagged with fedora , dell , hardware , laptop
Recently, I got a new laptop, a Dell XPS 15 9560 with
4k display, 32 GiBs of RAM and 1 TiB M.2 SSD drive. Quite nice specs, aren't
they 
?
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to purchase it without Windows pre-installed. But they didn't last long since I wiped the hard drive and installed Fedora 26 on it.
Let me briefly describe my experience and guide you through some trickier parts of the setup.
Posted on Sun 27 August 2017 in Fedora • Tagged with fedora , python , badge
A little late, but no less cool, Fedora EuroPython 2017 Attendee badge is available
!
Posted on Sun 30 July 2017 in Android • Tagged with android , backup , twrp , adb , benchmark
Recently I had to clone my Nexus 4 to another Nexus 4 device since my Nexus 4's front glass broke :-(.
At first, the task seemed quite straight-forward. Install the latest version of TWRP's recovery on the phone, backup all partitions using TWRP, transfer them to the other device and restore them.
But thing are never as easy as them seem, are they?
Posted on Fri 13 January 2017 in Python • Tagged with yum , dnf , pip , python , packaging , virtualenv , fedora , centos , rhel
Too many times I've seen people using a mix of yum/ dnf and pip for installation of system-wide Python packages This causes all sorts of problems .
TL; DR Install system-wide Python packages with yum/dnf and only use pip inside a virtual environment. For an example, see my Ansible snippet below .
Posted on Wed 19 October 2016 in Site • Tagged with pelican , python , fabric , github , site
In the previous blog post we looked at setting up a Pelican site with Python 3 and Fabric on Fedora 24.
Now that we have a Pelican site up and running, I will show you how to publish it on GitHub Pages using a sleek Fabric task.
Posted on Sat 08 October 2016 in Site • Tagged with pelican , fedora , python , fabric , site
According to StaticGen, Pelican is the most popular static site generator written in Python. As of Oct 10, 2016 it has 6168 stars on GitHub.
In this blog post, I'll show you how to create your own Pelican site, track it in a git repository, use Fabric to administer it, change site's default theme and finally, create a Hello World blog post.
Posted on Thu 06 October 2016 in Site