Some time ago I realized that the computer I was using at the moment was less important than the peripherals it had connected. It heavily depends on the kind of tasks you use your computer for, but for me the additional performance provided by a hardware upgrade does not usually …

I have been using OpenBSD as a router at home for a long time. There are many reasons to choose OpenBSD for this task, being one of them that the base install includes everything you need. If your Internet provider has IPv6 support there is a chance it uses DHCPv6-PD to delegate …

I have been working from home since 2015. I had to move with my wife to a small city, but I was able to keep my job at the University and regularly travel to our home town to meet my colleagues. However in 2017 I started working for a company based in the UK and video-conferences…

I do not certainly hate systemd, I see its power, but in my opinion some of its ideas are not helping at all, or maybe they were not executed the best way possible. systemd-resolved is a systemd service that handles DNS resolution for local processes, and if you combine it with a…

I take care of several Redmine based platforms, and every now and then I get a report about an issue that disappeared under unknown circumstances. Logs show that it is usually caused by someone with too many privileges who accidentally deleted the issue, but that’s another story.…

I have always avoided working with XML. Parsing and writing it always felt too difficult. I thought that way until I found an actually easy and manageable way of working with it. I will focus on the process of generating XML documents using PHP. As many developers out there, I st…

These last weeks I had to upgrade a large ownCloud installation. It was the community edition, so there was little to none information about how to upgrade such big instances. Many ownCloud community installations seem to be running on small organizations, so most recommendation…

There has been a lot written about how to speed up Symfony when running it inside a Vagrant box. In my opinion, the most interesting one is Running the Symfony application on Vagrant without NFS below 100ms. The change that has the biggest possitive impact on performance consists…