If you haven't heard about it, Polywork aims to be your professional space to showcase all the amazing things you do - work projects, talks, podcasts, blog posts, side projects, open source, NFTs & more. In this blog post, I'll share my experiences adopting Polywork into my role as Senior…
My 10 years old Linux desktop is running Fedora, with the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 Ti graphics card. For the driver, I've been using RPMFusion's akmods tool to have the kernel modules built at boot time in case. After an update last week, Fedora greeted me with nvidia kernel module…
After nearly 2 years of operation, the Macbook's heat output became worrying. The external display plays a role in my workspace, as well as turbo-boost triggered from apps. The problem is not new, many ideas and solutions are provided online. Read on to learn more. When an external monitor is…
Getting started with CI/CD has become more easy with the DevOps platform era. GitLab provides a new pipeline editor to help with onboarding, and allow to prevent common configuration mistakes. Pipelines and their definitions are always changing, and a work in progress similar to source code development. It is…
When Ghost 4 was released earlier this year, I've looked into the upgrade from the initial v3 based setup in docker-compose. Unfortunately, the container based setup is not officially supported, and there were no upgrade guides available. Time goes by, and after the 3rd time googling for Ghost 4 Docker…
Today I was diving deeper into GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Efficiency tricks, after I discovered resuable job attributes with !reference last week. Resource optimization is a big topic, and next to ideas on failing fast, I was looking into more parallelization. Luckily GitLab introduced this feature last year. Parallel Matrix…
Today I wrote some Python code and figured that I do not have linting available with pyflakes in CI/CD. Been reading this great blog post and built a short snippet: stages: - lint - test lint-python: stage: lint image: python:latest script: - pip install -r python/requirements.txt…
I've seen many changes and best practices in the past 15 years in monitoring. The shift from traditional host/service monitoring to microservices and distributed services has been the most impactful for me. It has been a wild ride to learn Kubernetes and cloud-native environments myself, with the help of…