Now that I鈥檓 daily driving Arch Linux again, I鈥檝e been thinking about how to handle my tasks. I use Apple Reminders because the iWatch functionality with Siri is so good. I鈥檝e been thinking of setting up a self-hosted solution, but then I would lose the Siri integration. In the meantime, I figured I would just try to access Apple Reminders from Linux. Using it from the browser worked surprisingly well. ...
I鈥檓 planning to do a series on Linux on my YouTube channel. The idea is to cover the fundamentals of Linux, either by teaching them myself or to link to existing resources. When the basics are done, I will take over and we鈥檒l build an Arch Linux desktop together. I use my MacBook for normal productive work and coding, and I have a Thinkpad T480 which I have for experimentation, and mostly for writing notes and browsing while I鈥檓 in the living room. It was running Fedora using the Sway spin, and it worked fine. ...
I鈥檝e been obsessed with Devcontainers and Devpods recently, and I鈥檓 learning a lot about portable dev environments. This is truly the next level of config management and the future of dev environments in my opinion. I relied on brew as my package manager, however, I ran into problems when I wanted to run my Linux dev containers on my M2 Silicon Mac. Linux brew is not supported on ARM architecture. ...
This is the first video of my homelab series. I set up the repo for my project and do the initial installation of k3s on an old laptop I had lying around. I had a k8s cluster installed on there with kubeadm which I needed to clean up first. ...
Although I rarely use Obsidian anymore, I still have it open because it is running the obsidian-git plugin in the background and it is constantly backing up my second brain to GitHub. I use iCloud to synch my vault across my iOs devices and I always create and edit my files using neovim. For my new gig at work I鈥檓 forced to use a windows laptop which means I cannot use iCloud to synch my vault. Then it is a godsend to be able to install Obsidian and use that to interact with my second brain. ...
I show my workflow to publish my Hugo blog from the command line using neovim and bash Links: 202305091705
Links: 202305070805 https://youtu.be/Q8dxoqqMHAg
Next winter I鈥檒l be entering my third year as a DevOps Engineer. When you first break into this field there is an overwhelming amount of things to learn. Frankly, this will always be the case. But I鈥檓 reaching a point where I have gained experience with most of the main areas and tooling, and I can start seeing the relations between them and how they compare to one another. Just like any other job or activity, there are things that you like and that suit you well, and there are things that you don鈥檛 like. And now the first phases of overwhelm are confidently behind me, I鈥檓 starting to learn the things I prefer doing over others. ...
For the past few months I鈥檝e been using this neat API to check the weather from the command line. It鈥檚 very simple to use. Simply run: curl wttr.in This will show the weather based on your location, but you can also give a particular location and format. curl wttr.in/Amsterdam Links: 202304271504 https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
This week I started a project which I鈥檝e been putting off for too long. I finally started my homelab. Over the past year I鈥檝e been collecting hardware here and there, and I鈥檝e had the intention to start up a proper Kubernetes cluster at home. I got inspired by Rob Muhlenstein鈥檚 Homelab Init playlist on YouTube which I鈥檓 working on. There are a few reasons why I haven鈥檛 started up until now: ...