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Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore

Four Years Later: Symlinks and Dropbox for Backup and Restore

Note: This post is about is a homegrown solution to backups/restores I developed four years ago, not the newly-announced Dropbox Backup. I originally developed this method for four reasons: restoring from backups was never a seamless or pain-free processsettings and preferences I adjusted over time were inevitably lost and

How To Create A Custom, Dynamic Inventory Script for Ansible

How To Create A Custom, Dynamic Inventory Script for Ansible

Writing a dynamic inventory script for Ansible can be useful for more than just getting a list of hosts to run a play against. It can also function as a standalone command line utility for your infrastructure. The first time I wrote one, I had a difficult time finding information

Tame Your Patreon Shipping Problem With Ansible

Tame Your Patreon Shipping Problem With Ansible

My work on the Pi-hole project led me to a start a Patreon page. Like many creators, I spent a while determining what rewards users would want. But unlike most users, I did not have a problem fulfilling orders. Apparently, this is a big problem: project creators spend more time