I lost a few couples of minutes trying to figure out where and how rss2mail is storing its configuration files, as I did not find in the documentation.
rss2mail is a couple of Python scripts to parse an RSS feed and send new items to an email address. It is really convenient but configuring it to have HTML instead of plain text and to choose police is really better.

I recently bought an SSD for my old Apple computer. I updated the system from Snow Leopard to Yosemite as some applications required a newer system.

Two weeks after I found that my FTDI chip (serial to USB converter) was faulty. Tried another, same problem. After a quick loop with an oscilloscope, the reset signal was not good… I search on the Internet and found that Apple now develops its own drivers but they are faulty :/

The workaround is following.

I just picked up a mini PC (Fujitsu Q5030) and tried to install Linux on it but the CD reader is not to be reliable. So I used the boot over Ethernet function. As my DHCP server is on the modem of my internet provider, I had to plug directly the computer into my laptop and setup a PXE server.

I am using a lot of web services on several servers, and I was bored to remember all ports and change my firewall rules each time. So I use HAProxy to redirect all incoming HTPP traffic to the right server/port by checking the requested URL.

Moreover, I configured it as an SSL endpoint, so every communication between a browser and HAProxy is encrypted, even if the service I am using is not able to support it. The other pro of this solution is to be able to use basic HTTP authentication whenever I want to restrict access to some services.