If you are

• spending a non-trivial amount of time in video calls every week (something that, at the time of writing, is true for a lot of people due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and also

• having to use mains-powered artificial lighting in your office (true at the time of writing …

Some of the X applications I run in LXC make sounds. Now, I find alert sounds horribly distracting so I turn them off, but for some containerized applications I want to actually play sound.

Examples include the Spotify Linux client (which I run in its own LXC container because it …

I occasionally want to run X applications in an LXC container. Sometimes that’s because they’re not open source and I need to run them for work, like Zoom. Sometimes it’s an open source X application that doesn’t work splendidly well on the Ubuntu release that I …

LXC is part of my standard Linux desktop toolbox, and I use it daily. I have done tutorials about this before, one of which you can find on YouTube (courtesy of linux.conf.au) and GitHub, but it’s about time I included this in a series of articles.

My …

Asynchronous Celery tasks that manipulate a MySQL/Galera database from a Django application can produce very interesting behavior when HAProxy is involved.