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MAY 25TH, 2020
GeoZero, a zero-copy API for processing geospatial data

Since a few years I get more and more obsessed about the performance of my daily work tools. It took a long time to realize how slow today’s software is, compared to similar software I was working with 20 or even 30 years ago. Software bloat compensating any hardware performance improvements seems to belong to the laws of nature.

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APR 30TH, 2020
Ansible Vault Rgrep

A script to grep ansible vault files

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APR 17TH, 2020
Adding a Host to known_hosts with Ansible

Ansible’s known_hosts module’s documentation is a bit scanty. Here’s a more complete example on how to use the module:

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FEB 29TH, 2020
Web based editing in QGIS cloud

QGIS Cloud (www.qgiscloud.com) is a platform which provides a convenient geodata infrastructure including database, web services and web maps in the cloud. Recently, Sourcepole implemented the possibility to enable web-based editing in published maps. This blog post shows how to enable editing in QGIS cloud pro maps. We start with my_edit_project.qgs, a project in QGIS desktop containing a background layer and a point vector layer (trees). We upload the data to QGIS Cloud using the QGIS Cloud plugin and publish the project. Read on


NOV 28TH, 2019
Nullmailer HOSTNAME conflict with Icinga2

When icinga2 sends out emails, it sets the environment variable HOSTNAME. The same environment variable is used by nullmailer but with different semantics. This breaks email sending…

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