HowTos and Development Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 09, 2025

GNU/Linux

• Instructionals/Technical

  • LinuxBuz ☛ How to Use Ansible delegate_to to Run Task on Specific Host

    In Ansible, tasks usually run on the hosts listed in the inventory file. However, there are times when you need to execute a task on a different host.

  • It's FOSS ☛ Installing Arch GNU/Linux with BTRFS and Disk Encryption

    The process is pretty much the same as regular Arch install. You just choose a few additional settings.

  • Dominique Dumont: Drawbacks of using Cookiecutter with Cruft

    Hi

    Cookiecutter is a tool for building coding project templates. It’s often used to provide a scaffolding to build lots of similar project. I’ve seen it used to create Symfony projects and several cloud infrastructures deployed with Terraform. This tool was useful to accelerate the creation of new projects.

    Since these templates were bound to evolve, the teams providing these template relied on cruft to update the code provided by the template in their user’s code. In other words, they wanted their users to apply a diff of the template modification to their code.

• Games

  • Hackaday ☛ Hack On Self: Quest System Basics

    Whenever I play an RPG, whether it’s Fallout or Cyberpunk 2077, I complete every single quest available to me. The quests grab my attention in an unprecedented way – doesn’t hurt that there’s rewards and progression markers attached. Of course, these systems are meticulously designed to grab attention, making sure you can enjoy the entirety of the game’s content.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • SUSE/OpenSUSE

    • New Filters Added to the Request Index Page

      We’re continuously improving the request index page! In addition to the filters we recently introduced, we’ve now added three more: priority, creation time, and reviewer. Try them out and see how they enhance your workflow! The Request Index feature is part of the beta program. We started the redesign of the request index in August 2024 introducing a new UI to list all the requests replacing the “Tasks” place in the menu.

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Programming/Development

    • Hackaday ☛ UScope: A New Linux Debugger And Not A GDB Shell, Apparently

      [Jim Colabro] is a little underwhelmed with the experience of low-level debugging of Linux applications using traditional debuggers such as GDB and LLDB. These programs have been around for a long time, developing alongside Linux and other UNIX-like OSs, and are still solidly in the CLI domain.  Fed up with the lack of data structure support and these tools’ staleness and user experience, [Jim] has created UScope, a new debugger written from scratch with no code from the existing projects.