Fidel Ramos

@fidel
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Announcing Reflex, a #Pelican theme:

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/announce-reflex-theme

Reflex is the theme I use on my blog. It was already public on my Github, but I had been meaning to release it properly for years.

Announcing Reflex, a Pelican theme

I'm happy to announce the public availability of my Pelican theme: Reflex. It is published on PyPI, which should be the best way for most users to install it. When I first started this blog I decided on Pelican because I had lots of experience with Python, so it would …

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New article in my blog: Self-hosted Home, Part 1: Design & Planning

I'm going to build a new dream #homelab and in this post I detail my design based on local-only open-source services.

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/self-hosted-home-1

#selfhosting

Self-hosted Home, Part 1: Design and Planning

Those who have been paying attention to the blog know that I bought a house and have been planning its full renovation. As a computer nerd what excites me the most is the opportunity to implement my dream smart home, networking and home server. I have a clear idea of …

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Nuevo artículo en mi blog: Casa autoalojada, Parte 1: Diseño y planificación

Voy a montar el #homelab de mis sueños. En esta entrada detallo el diseño, basado en servicios de software libre y exclusivamente locales.

https://blog.fidelramos.net/es/software/self-hosted-home-1

#selfhosting

Casa Autoalojada, Parte 1: Diseño y planificación

Quienes hayan estado atentos al blog sabrán que he comprado una casa y he estado planeando su reforma integral. Como friki de la informática, lo que más me ilusiona es la oportunidad de implementar la casa inteligente, la red y el servidor doméstico de mis sueños. Tengo una idea clara …

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New Year's Resolutions for 2026

Another year has passed, and what I originally didn't plan to turn into a tradition has become one I never miss: publishing my resolutions for the new year. I always fail at some of my resolutions, but I like the effort of reflection and keeping them in mind throughout the …

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🇬🇧 New article in my blog: Periodic script to back up installed OS packages

https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/backup-installed-packages

🇪🇦 Nuevo artículo en mi blog: Respaldo automático periódico de los paquetes instalados en el SO

https://blog.fidelramos.net/es/software/backup-installed-packages

#backup #debian #archlinux #fish

Periodic script to back up installed OS packages

A while ago I switched to yadm for managing my dotfiles. One of its features I have been enjoying is its bootstrap support. I have been adding idempotent setup operations My latest addition is a script that creates backup files with all installed OS packages. In case of disaster if …

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Now with self-hosted comments

A few days ago I received an email from a reader and fellow blogger, to let me know that he was following my blog and also gave me a shout out about my New Year's resolution to write at least one article every month of 2025, and that I was …

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Dear mastodon, I am looking for #job.

- slightly > 2 year of #clojure & #clojurescript web programming
- ~3 year of #javascript #typescript
- familiar with #docker & other base webdev stuff
- > 8 years as #linux user
- 3 years of #guix
- ~2 years of #guile #scheme

Can consult in any of those above or take a real project up to 1 year long.

I am a citizen of 🇷🇺 but I do have 🇰🇿 bank card.

Please go private mention or email via [email protected]

Please boost. 🙏

To all #Firefox users (v128 and newer) - untick that checkbox

#Firefox128 #Mozilla

I always a bit shy asking for support in general or talking about funding FOSS projects in particular, I didn't even have a direct link to support page on my site.

Today I realized that it's not ok and from now on I need to be more open and explicit on the problem of FOSS funding. I started with updating my site index page.

https://trop.in

I genuinely grateful to all the people, who already bolster me and related projects no matter how hard it was to find a support page :)

main — trop.in

I got a RaspPi Zero 2 W with an attached 5 TiB HDD at my parents home.

Previously I used #restic with a SASS storage provider and it worked reliably, although remote access was slower than I would've liked.

Now I'm looking at #borgbackup. Both server and client setup will be automated with #ansible.

Currently I'm evaluating playbooks:

https://github.com/borisskert/ansible-borgbackup

https://github.com/maxhoesel-ansible/ansible-collection-borgbackup

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/central-backup-server.html#ansible

GitHub - borisskert/ansible-borgbackup: An ansible installation and setup role for borgbackup

An ansible installation and setup role for borgbackup - borisskert/ansible-borgbackup

GitHub