Ivan Matveyev ⁽¹³⁾

Apple has a multi-stage device/OS support decommissioning and at the moment High Sierra is the oldest MacOS you get in the App Store. However, Catch-22, to be able to install it you need a working Intel Mac which will be less and less likely as…

This post describes how to set up a Debian 13 machine to run FastAPI applications with option to have different Python versions and virtual Python environments. This post does NOT contain detailed step-by-step instructions for the setup, only the parts that I consider important to…

It's more convenient to read all your mail in one inbox. To have LogWatch or other reports delivered to your mailbox, Exim4 needs to be configured as smarthost. In my case Exim comes as a dependency of LogWatch. Exim config /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf is below. dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_other_hostnames='HOSTNAME' dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1…

One of my machines is serving public users and it is behind NAT. Besides DHCP IP address reservation and Port Forwarding, it needed a hostname. I am using the below script to update the DDNS. #!/bin/bash IP_FILE="/tmp/ddns-ip.txt" # Try to get current IP, capture both…