If you are using a self-hosted Netlify CMS as the online editor for your SSG powered Website and you are using the editorial workflow (you have publish_mode: editorial_workflow in your config.yml), a pain point is that you do not see a preview of the live page when the page …
Static Site Generator (SSG) is in vogue for building Web sites. Compared with traditional content management system (CMS), SSG is more performant, flexible and easier to maintain for people comfortable with coding . However, for the non-technical crowd, a WYSIWYG online editor is still the way to go. Netlify CMS fills …
more ...This blog has undergone a few migrations over its 15 years life span.
It started out as a Blogger account in 2005. The purpose was to record some system administration details when I was an assistant professor at university, setting up my laboratry for students.
Then Yunyao joined in after …
more ...I challenge myself to read or listen to 52 books in 2020. I'm listing them here with a short descriptions about them to keep track of what I've read and key ideas learned.
1. The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life As a minimalist at heart …
more ...DokuWiki is one of the most easy-to-use open source Wiki software. It is a very good internal documentation tool for small or medium sized organizations.
Comparing with using Google Docs for the same purpose, one advantage of using a Wiki is that it is more searchable and navigable. In addition …
more ...Discourse is a modern forum software that is quite popular in the technology circle. One can install a Discourse server easily with the recommended method of using docker. All the services needed by the Discourse server, e.g. Postgresql and Redis, will be running inside a docker container, which is …
more ...Sentry is a fairly popular service for tracking exceptions and errors in production softwares. They also provides a docker recipe for people who want to self host their own sentry server. This post shows how to enable LDAP authentication for such a self hosted sentry server, using freeIPA as the …
more ...The point of setting up freeIPA for an intranet is to enable single-sign-on (SSO) for all the internal services that requires authentication and authorization. LDAP, originated from my alma mater University of Michigan, is one of the most widely accepted solutions to the problem. freeIPA can serve as a LDAP …
more ...FreeIPA is the open source version of RedHat's identity management solution, which nicely integrates several open sources services that are important for managing an intranet: 389 LDAP Directory Server, MIT Kerboros, NTP, DNS, SSSD and others.
Most of my servers are virtual machines in AWS EC2. To manage such a …
more ...As part of our house modernization process, we bought an Ecobee3 Wifi enabled smart thermostat. We hope that this small device will help reduce the size of our utility bill. The product looks very simple, but it comes with three additional sensors that can be placed in different rooms, and …
more ...Since Drupal 6 is no longer supported, I upgraded this site to the lasted version of Drupal 8.4.2 by following the guide. As you can see, the upgrade mostly worked. However, there are a few points of caution as well as some unresolved problems.
As before, I setup …
more ...We traveled with Boyan, our 13-month son last month to Japan (for those who are wondering, yep, he is the main reason why this blog has been so quiet in the past couple of years. :-)) and spent a unforgettable 10 days there. Before I went there, I searched over the …
more ...JSON is arguably the world's most popular human readable data format today. It has largely replaced XML as the data exchange format on the Internet. One of the key reasons for the proliferation of JSON is its simplicity. The data structure are very limited: only arrays, enclosed with []; and objects …
more ...Clojure has been my primary programming language for a couple of years now. During this period, I have relied on my trusty Vim text editor as the development environment. Coding Clojure in Vim had been an enjoyable experience with these excellent Vim plugins:
more ...What makes Mayor Stubbs special?
Check out the personality (or shall I say, catality) profile for Mayor Stubbs constructed by Juji based on Mayor Stubbs' tweets.
Have you meet Mayor Stubbs? Does this sound like him?
What really makes me smile is the summary of the profile. Mayor Stubbs is …
more ...After a long drive, the last stop of the second day of our trip is National Museum of Boyana Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is a very small church, originally built in the lat 10th or early 11th century, with the addition of the central wing in the …
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The second day of our trip began with a long drive from Sofia to Rila Monastery, the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. It is the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bulgaria we visited in our trip.
This beautiful monastery is situated in the southwestern Rila …
more ...We were quite amazed by the National Archaeological Museum, especially the Thracian treasures.
The museum is located in the largest and oldest former Ottoman Mosque in Sofia.
Thracian treasures. Can you believe that they were made before the Roman Empire?
Gold jewery
Gold wreath
Gold mask and ring from Thracian …
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