GitLab To-dos for async productivity
Use the /todo quick action in an issue to add it as a To-do, and follow-up later.…
My 1st year all-remote at GitLab
Hi 👋 Remember this tweet just a few months ago? It was ~2 weeks before life changed drastically, on March 2nd, 2020 ... I made ambitious plans. 1 month onboarding, and then KubeCon EU, travelling Europe and later visiting the US. I was about to meet Brendan and Abubakar in Prague at…
Upgrade to macOS Big Sur
When Big Sur was released 2 weeks ago, everyone talked about M1 Silicon compatibility and possible broken things on older Macbooks. macOS UpgradeIt downloaded ~13GB and installed it unattended afterwards. No problems logging in and continuing to work :) HomebrewI'm using Homebrew to install CLI tools and apps not available on…
KubeCon NA and beyond
I started marking interesting sessions on my sched.com profile, also knowing about overlaps. I recommend reserving a focus time block after KubeCon to watch parallel sessions on-demand. The keynotes are always insightful and thoughtful, and inclusive. "Diversity-powered resilience is what #CloudNative is all about... resilience is built, not…
Remove sensitive data from Linux hosts (history, logs, config, etc.)
You may run into the case of purging a system and removing sensitive data, e.g. when transferring VM ownership. There are multiple steps with shell history, configuration, home directories and stateful/log data. Delete shell historyrm $HOME/.bash_history history -cw Configuration and Home DirectoriesIn the best base, the…
docker-compose: Download latest release automatically
Since there is no package available for docker-compose, one always needs to check the latest release version and then adjust the cURL download command. This step can be automated with fetching the latest release from the GitHub API first, and then using this detail in the cURL command. jq is…
Disable read-only mode in Discourse from the rails console
A Discourse instance can be set in read-only mode for backups. I had used this for a global read-only maintenance. The admin session was on one of my computers which timed out after a while. In order to regain access to the Discourse instance, and being able to login as…
Convert Zoom recording to Twitter video with Handbrake
Jeffrey asked me to create a short intro video for the first German Virtual Connect Day at GitLab. I'm lazy, started Zoom and recorded it. Then I uploaded the video to LinkedIn, and this worked like a breeze. Twitter did not like it, unsupported format (and likely codec). A guide…