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I do not consider myself a blogger, which is why I do not publish new articles regularly. But when I do, they tend to be a bit longer and offer advice you can really use.

I mostly write about Rails, DevOps, Linux and vim.

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My articles in chronological order

2020
September 13^th	●	Why SELinux may block systemd services calling rbenv
2019
March 1^st	●	How to preserve the query string when redirecting routes in a Rails application
February 4^th	●	How to compile a Crystal project with static linking
January 26^th	●	How to install Python with Ansible
2017
April 26^th	●	How to cut your Rails server's provisioning time by more than 60%
2016
April 11^th	●	How to remotely generate a Let's Encrypt certificate for your production server
March 30^th	●	How to automate rbenv installations
March 10^th	●	5 steps to cut your deploy time in half
February 17^th	●	How to use Ansible's lineinfile module in a bulletproof way
2015
December 30^th	●	2015
November 3^rd	●	How to set cookies across different top level domains
September 22^nd	●	A way to trigger a Rails action from a cron job you may not have thought about
April 19^th	●	What you should know before setting environment variables for your Rails application
February 2^nd	●	How to compile a SELinux policy package
January 12^th	●	Strange VirtualBox networking behaviour (and one possible cause)
2014
December 23^rd	●	2014 in the rearview mirror
December 15^th	●	How to build a Vagrant base box from a VirtualBox VM
November 17^th	●	CentOS or Ubuntu?
November 3^rd	●	Early lessons learned while building a product business
October 20^th	●	Develop your application with meaningful data
September 29^th	●	5 bash tips useful for scripted provisioning
September 1^st	●	Advanced use of merge tags to manage subscribers in MailChimp
August 25^th	●	Running Ruby scripts from within a cron job in an rbenv environment
August 18^th	●	Github-like repository hosting on your own server
August 5^th	●	Use cron to add newsletter subscribers in the background
July 6^th	●	Why chaining commands with pipes in Mac OS X does not always work
July 1^st	●	Keeping your codebase healthy with git hooks
June 22^nd	●	Graceful error pages with nginx
May 27^th	●	Two common pitfalls when using hashed passwords with Puppet
May 14^th	●	Simple update notifications for your CentOS/RedHat-server
May 12^th	●	How to make your server speak English
May 8^th	●	4 simple steps to make Rails development on your Mac more productive
May 1^st	●	How to manage multiple Rails versions
February 10^th	●	Spam-free forms

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My articles in chronological order

Michael Trojanek