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Installing the new Dendrite Matrix Homeserver on Debian Buster

This post contains my personal notes on how to set up Dendrite, Matrix.org’s second-generation homeserver written in Go. These notes are not yet complete, but do contain the basics to get things going.

Last updated on Friday, 15 January 2021 10 min read Technology

Nano YAML Highlighting

By default, nano on Debian Buster does not support syntax highlighting YAML files. Adding this template to nano will give you syntax highlighting when opening YAML files in nano. sudo tee /usr/share/nano/yaml.

Last updated on Monday, 10 August 2020 1 min read Technology

Setup Unbound DNS cache & resolver on Debian Buster

sudo apt install unbound sudo su -c "unbound-anchor -a /var/lib/unbound/root.key" sudo tee -a /etc/unbound/unbound.conf << EOF > /dev/null server: interface: 127.0.0.1 interface: ::1 access-control: 127.0.0.0/8 allow access-control: ::1/128 allow # enable remote-control (useful when utilising monitoring tools such as netdata) remote-control: control-enable: yes EOF sudo systemctl restart unbound sudo apt install resolvconf sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces change nameservers to 127.

Last updated on Thursday, 17 December 2020 1 min read Technology

Disable sudo password prompt

sudo nano /etc/sudoers add # Paswordless sudo %sudo ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Last updated on Saturday, 8 August 2020 1 min read Technology

Zsh: Increase your productivity when using the terminal

Recently, I’ve become a big fan of replacing bash with zsh as my standard shell on Debian. Combined with the Oh My Zsh (GitHub) framework, it makes the terminal more convenient to use, offering better history search, autocompletion and plugins for many popular tools, such as git, systemctl and kubectl.

Last updated on Monday, 19 October 2020 2 min read Technology

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