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Raspberry PI touchscreen

I got a nice case with an embedded 3.5" touchscreen from a chinese supplier, it comes even with a small pen for only a few euros and no shipping, it is incredible. The Display is run from the GPIO pins and has the XPT20It works with jessie more »

Sieve filters with docker mailserver

I've been playing around with the tvial/docker-mailserver container to host multiple email domains with a lot and I mean a lot of aliases. I use an alias for every service or site. I find this useful if the service is hacked or the address is sold and »

Docker Compose and Update

I use docker-compose to manage my standalone docker host(s). It is a convenient way to configure multiple containers and the docker-compose.yaml can be version controlled, which is also nice if you keep changing and experimenting with it. After you have created a docker-compose.yaml file all it takes »

Central Logging Revisited

In my former post [../central-logging-in-the-dockersphere/] about collecting logs from running containers, I thought fluentd was a good choice as it was so much lighter then logstash as a log shipper and 'enricher'. But as I was trying to parse postfix logs from a mailserver container for which exists »

RasberryPi Terrarium

I use a Pi Zero for the management of a terrarium with crested gecko's, by using the terrariumPI [https://github.com/theyosh/TerrariumPI] software by theyosh. It has support for almost all sensors you could ever want in a greenhouse/terrarium and has a nice webbased managment interface. »

Central logging in the dockersphere

As I recently decided to go all docker on a VPS I have. I also wanted to have a central logging instance with elasticsearch as backend. The mail service container I was considering already had some filebeat support for elasticsearch but I wanted to be able to collect the logs »

Improved Initiative

Improved Initiative [https://www.patreon.com/improvedinitiative] is a great (nodejs) app, that makes the running of a Dungeons and Dragons game a breeze for a DM. It is made by Evan Baily and lucky for us he made it opensource. You can download the 'app' from github »