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Here is some preliminary notes on how one can restore a Discourse instance and change the domain name.

A solution to the idea of sharing PGP private keys without risking to lose everything if one of the machines you shared it had been accessed.

The following are the commands I ran on the last successful attempt to replicate the site I was working on. If you want to make a static version of your site, you might find those helpful.

I’ve recently been through the steps to make a NodeJS web app to run from inside a Docker container. The objective of this project was to simplify the deployment of a web app that had many moving parts by making it a re-deployable service that is self-contained.

In the Discourse forums, if you’ve seen something saying that you have to provide a different origin to make long polling work, maybe you didn’t understand what you have to do. Here are the details of why and how to do it correctly.

Here’s how I setup a Discourse web application so that I can scale it by adding more Docker instances while keeping a low number of exposed web servers

Tutorials and explanation on how to be your own OAuth Identity Provider are very scarce and I’ve come to achieve this, this is an attempt to outline the basics.

Need to run your web app with Python 2.7.9, but server environment uses Ubuntu Long Term Support? Don’t replace Python, leverage VirtualEnv instead!