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Snapdragon Tech Blog

Musings of a systems administrator and open source developer

2019

Fully Unroot Custom Android ROMs to run Banking Apps

2017

Update all macOS Apps with a Single Command
Optimize Spamassassin Detection Rate

2016

Use Piwik for more Reliable Visitor Statistics (avoid referral spam and ad blockers)

2015

Shell Function to Remove all Metadata from PDF
Incremental FTP backups
Extend Pandas DataFrame with custom functions and attributes
Regex to find phone numbers in every format
Python clipboard access

2014

Scalable Docker Monitoring with Fluentd, Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
Linksnappy Command Line Downloader (Python)
md2pdf – Command line Markdown to PDF converter with support for CSS stylesheets and custom fonts, Python
Access Docker container attributes in Ansible
Use Mac OSX Password Generator from Terminal
Advanced monit: Keep track of daemons, websites, RAIDs and partitons
Defragment Mac OSX from Recovery Mode
Use Java script Bookmarklet to save website data as CSV
Import single WordPress site into WordPress MU Installation
Using Hinton diagrams to visualize stock market correlations
High-performance SSH: Install HPN-SSH on OSX with keychain integration
Lazy admin’s guide to automated updates (Part 2: Python pip)
Lazy admin’s guide to automated updates (Part 1: Debian Linux)
Pleasant places to live in China, Germany and Austria
Introducing: (A)SPEL web stack

2013

Buggy Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks update
China GPS offset problem
Setting Postfix to encrypt all traffic when talking to other mailservers
M/Monit preparing new monitoring tool
Download from Uploaded.to (and others) via command line on Linux or Mac OSX

2012

Scan image via SSH
XBian – Raspberry Pi-based distro for running XBMC
Raspberry Pi for CCTV using motion
Using Raspberry Pi for CCTV with Zoneminder
Access your Raspberry-Pi through any Browser with VNC
Use Raspberry Pi to Print From Your iPad or iPhone
Raspberry Pi as Budget BitTorrent Server
Easily Resize PDF on Mac OSX and Linux