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Ivan Tomica
Over the course of many complex projects, I have gained proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructures. My experience covers optimizing performance, ensuring high availability, and enhancing system security while working with web servers, load balancers, databases, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and serverless technologies.
August 2026
September 2026
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All posts (172)
Ever since I’ve set up EFI boot on my machine using grub I had this issue with timeout option not wanting to go away. Digging into the issue I first looked at /boot/grub/grub.cfg where I found this piece of code: if [ $grub_platform = efi ]; then set timeout=30 if [ x$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then set...
My main rig is running Ubuntu 18.04. To be more precise I opted out at install time to use Ubuntu Mate 18.04 but later on installed AwesomeWM and use that instead now. But without digressing much, I decided it was time to move my root (/) to ZFS. Why? - Because it is awesome! ZFS is my favorite FS of choice for some...
Recently I’ve been tasked to set up Confluence server installation. One of my friends was in need and I decided it would be nice to play a bit with the whole setup. As this is pro-bono and really not quite production install (meaning they use it, but it is not so downtime critical) there was a place to experiment...
URxvt, or if you wish to call it rxvt-unicode, has this weird thing turned on by default where it binds ctrl+shift keys to all sorts of insanity (keycap picture insert mode and stuff like that). Dammit, I want my “normal” terminal behavior back! By “normal” I think that if I press: Ctrl + Shift + V -> paste contents...
Although I don’t use IRC as much as I used to do I still have ZNC set up to connect and keep me joined in channels. As Weechat is my preferred IRC client here are the settings I use to connect my accounts to the ZNC bouncer. /secure passphrase WEECHAT_PASSWORD /secure set znc_password YOUR_ZNC_PASSWORD /set...
When Firefox decided to change the shell of the browser and move to WebExtensions (same format of extensions as used by Chrome) you have not been able to change the interface as you wished anymore via browser extension. I was using TabMix Plus, and later one Tree Style Tab extensions in order to fit many open tabs...
I’ve been using Mutt for quite some time now and I find it great due to many things such as: Very lightweight - I’m able to use it on any machine without making the machine unresponsive like with Thunderbird or Evolution when they decide to pull all of the 20-30 thousand messages I have in my mailbox TUI interface -...
With the release of Juno I decided to give it a try and pretty much liked it on laptop. In fact I liked it so much that I decided to install it on desktop as well. On my main rig I run Ubuntu proper (18.04 + KDE installed manually). Since I have everything set up, and am lazy to reinstall machine unnecessarily, I’ve...
When I was setting up Macbook I selected Croatian keyboard layout and for some reason it was defined as default from that moment for login screen. Although I primarily use US layout and have changed it for my account Croatian was still used for login screen once the computer powered on. No matter how I changed...
Prefix thing you’re searching for with: ^ for matches in your browsing history. * for matches in your bookmarks. % for matches in your currently open tabs. # for matches in page titles. @ for matches in web addresses.
Moving around: CTRL + A # beginning of the current line CTRL + E # end of the current line Alt + F # one word forward Alt + B # one word back Text manipulation: CTRL + U # delete characters before cursor CTRL + K # delete characters after cursor CTRL + W # delete word before cursor Alt + D # delete word after cursor...
By default proc is mounted in a way that allows inspection of other users processes by any account on the system. This can be a security risk if attacker gets hold of one of the accounts on the machine as it can freely inspect processes and gather information that it perhaps shouldn’t have. In order to restrict...
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