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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” - Leo Tolstoy.

I’ve been working with the icinga2 API recently and find it to be very useful for doing command line icinga2 operations.

Python has a solid backbone of modules for various operations. It would be a pity if we had to write one-liner python programs just because we cannot avail those functionalities on the command line...

This blog post serves as a comment area for this ipython notebook

In my previous post we talked about Python decorators and an intuitive way of remembering how decorators with arguments work. The following code snippet had triggered the whole chain of thought:Now...

This is not yet another explanation of decorators. There are a lot of people who have done a great job of explaining it. What this post is about is the way I understood it and how I wrap my head ar...

Edit: This post was relevant when I needed a way to whip up posts using vim on blogger. Now that I've moved to github pages - I don't need to jump these hoops.This post was uploaded on blogger from...

I've been using mdadm to learn about software RAID configurations on Linux and I find it to be a great resource to play around with and do some hands on work. How I wish we were taught using these ...

Edit: This post was relevant when I was yet to discover the very amazing tmux.For me, screen seems like a distant memory now.tmuxinator FTW!I am getting used to the screen command for my Linux deve...

The difference between an average programmer and a good one is the same as the difference between an optometrist and an ophthalmologist.