Tibor's Musings

Troubleshooting Mbsync Duplicate UID Errors

I've been using excellent msync tool to synchronise IMAP mailboxes between cloud and laptop. (mbsync seems both faster and less resource-hungry than offlineimap.) Once, probably due to a wrong move operation, the synchronisation started to report "Maildir error: duplicate UID" messages. How to quickly repair this situation?

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Running Multiple Daemon Processes in Docker

A Docker container is usually dedicated to running one daemon process, such as Apache to serve a web application. If the application needs a cache, or a database, then the container running the application is linked to another containing running the cache, and yet another container running the database. However …

Using Docker for Developing Python Applications

Docker became popular software solution permitting to deploy applications inside isolated Linux software containers. From a Python related point of view, one could consider Docker containers as "virtual environments on steroids", because they encapsulate and isolate not only application's Python pre-requisites (say given version of PyPDF2 package), but also any …

One Key, Two Functions, or CapsLock as an Escape and Control

In search for greater keyboard ergonomy and improved typing productivity, the CapsLock key seems to be taking place for not much use. Many programmers redefine it to become a modifier key. One popular habit: Vi users prefer to set it to Escape, while Emacs users to Control. What if one …