I decided to move this little blog of mine to GitHub Pages. Using git to manage blog posts it is a lot more appealing to me than copy-pasting stuff to Tumblr.

I’ve been working with Ansible for several weeks now. It’s a very powerful tool for automating server deployment (like Chef or Puppet). It’s very easy to use, the only thing that it expects from the server is a working SSH access. Also it has a pretty good documentation.

I’m often using Setuptools to package and distribute Python modules. Recently I needeed to add a custom command to setup.py so I can run it like this:

$ python setup.py mycommand --option --another-option value

The official documentation of Setuptools isn’t very specific on how to do it so here is what I came up with after a little research.

This is a very simple yet effective way to get rid of advertisements in Android apps – without rooting the device. In principle it is the same method that the Android AdBlock app uses: resolve all DNS queries for various ad servers to 127.0.0.1. But AdBlock app requires a rooted device, which not everyone is able or wants to do.