Last week, Oskar Stenberg asked on Unix & Linux if it were possible to configure connectivity between two networks, both using the same address range, without involving network namespaces. That is, given this high level view of the network… …can we set things up so that hosts on the “inner” network can communicate with hosts on the “outer” network using the range 192.168.3.0/24, and similarly for communication in the other direction?

I’ve been a regular visitor to Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites over the years, and while I’ve mostly enjoyed the experience, I’ve been frustrated by the lack of control I have over what questions I see. I’m not really interested in looking at questions that have already been closed, or that have a negative score, but there’s no native facility for filtering questions like this. I finally spent the time learning just enough JavaScript to hurt myself to put together a pair of scripts that let me present the questions that way I want:

I recently answered a question from Harsha Nalore on StackOverflow that involved using Ansible to extract the output of a command sent to a BigIP device of some sort. My solution – which I claim to be functional, but probably not optimal – involved writing an Ansible filter module to parse the output. That filter made use of a complex-looking regular expression. Harsha asked for some details on that regular expression works, and the existing StackOverflow answer didn’t really seem the write place for that: so, here we are.