Every text is written to an audience. I have a hard time to see whom Build an Orchestrator in Go (From Scratch) from Manning is for.
To start out with the good parts. The prose is well written. Sentences are well-crafted and readable. Code formatting is very good and the book is legible as an e-book - something that should be minimum standard but unfortunately isn’t. Also the project itself is interesting and fun.
read more →This one is just a short review of Kubernetes the Hard Way. The idea is that you set up a raw (but minimal) Kubernetes cluster from scratch. Even though the tutorial is already quite old, it is still very well maintained and up-to-date.
It is fully cloud provider independent, a welcome change from when I last looked at it. In fact, you can now set up the entire cluster on your own machine. Alternatively, you could even go down the route of using several physical machines in your home network. This would be a pretty cool project. For simplicity I just went with four virtual Debian machines in virt-manager.
read more →So I finally took the plunge and migrated my builds from Drone to Forgejo Actions. Everyone familiar with GitHub Actions also knows what Forgejo Actions are. They follow the same principles and in some sense Forgejo Actions are a fork of GitHub Actions.
It took me a while to take that step. One reason was of course that it takes time to do. More importantly however, I was a bit reluctant to run an Actions Runner on the same server as all my other stuff. This is also not recommended! Action Runners are pretty potent and if something goes wrong, or some evil soul finds an exploit, this can do quite some damage.
read more →Oh well, like for many others, my history of Emacs configurations is long and varied. Time to start the next chapter.
I’m not sure if I can recollect everything 100% correctly, but I will try my best. My history of Emacs goes something like this…
read more →Every once in a while I come across one of the GNU Info manuals. And every time I do, I get the same strange feeling of how clear and on-point they are written. I read a lot of documentation. Info manuals have a hard-to-grasp quality about them that just make them stand out of the crowd.
I find this very interesting because Info manuals are existing somewhat in the shadows and have an arguably archaic appeal to them. They are a marriage between hypertext and man pages with minimal markup. I guess barely anyone outside of the GNU project knows how to write the markup for Info manuals, and I have never seen an Info manual outside of GNU or some project tightly associated with GNU software.
read more →The other day I read about this fun bug story over at The Old New Thing. It’s an entertaining read if you have a few minutes downtime. Linked in that post, and even more entertaining, is “The Night Watch” by James Mickens. It’s a hilarious read about systems programming and the horrors therein. Be warned though: It is satire with a true core but a slightly black humor.
Here are some snippets to wet your appetite:
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