Docker is great, but how do you run Linux containers on Windows? In WSL, of course. The Docker Desktop application is certainly an option, but it eats up a lot of RAM thanks to its Electron-based GUI. It also has an LLM chatbot (because of course it does, it’s 2026 after all). Just the Docker Desktop installer takes up 598 MB. What if you want something simpler and with less RAM consumption? WSL 2 makes it really straightforward to set up Docker with some basic Windows integration.

Ten years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a very long blog post titled Deploying Python Web Applications with nginx and uWSGI Emperor. This week, I’ve migrated the Python web applications hosted on my VPS to Docker containers. Here are some reasons why, and all my Docker files to help you do this on your server.

I’ve recently migrated my VPS from Fedora to Ubuntu. Here’s a list of things that might be useful to keep in mind before, during, and after a migration of a server that hosts publicly accessible Web sites and applications, as well as other personal services, and how to get rid of the most annoying parts of Ubuntu.

As part of your code, you may be inclined to call a command to do something. But is it always a good idea? How to do it safely? What happens behind the scenes?

You’ve just written a great Python web application. Now, you want to share it with the world. In order to do that, you need a server, and some software to do that for you.

The following is a comprehensive guide on how to accomplish that, on multiple Linux-based operating systems, using nginx and uWSGI Emperor. It doesn’t force you to use any specific web framework — Flask, Django, Pyramid, Bottle will all work. Written for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS 7, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux and Arch Linux (should be helpful for other systems, too). Now with an Ansible Playbook.

Revision 8 (2022-02-20): works with Fedora 35, AlmaLinux 8, RockyLinux 8

While this guide is still valid, in 2026 I switched to Docker and Gunicorn for my Python web app deployments. Check out Deploying Python Web Applications with Docker for more details.

pass is the standard Unix password manager. And I just wrote a slightly friendlier, clickier interface with urwid and Python.

Are you executing a process that takes a long time? Do you want to know that it’s still working while you are in another terminal/making coffee? Do you have a favorite game show tune to play while doing something?

If yes: think is just for you. For more details, read on or hop onto the GitHub page.

I recently switched distros on my server, from Debian to Fedora, to use systemd and keep it in line with my home Arch Linux system (which was not reinstalled since 2010, by the way!) Why is systemd so awesome? Read on to find out.