"We've got this project on kubernetes that you'll be helping maintain"
This started my journey with kubernetes. I found a great tutorial from freecodecamp and this blog is an attempt to set up some personal projects using it. It's best to read the original though as it's more in-depth.
I …
I created a cronjob to back up my server content and wanted to test out emailing of errors when they occurred. To set this up, I installed msmtp and msmtp-mta to help send emails using an smtp server and bsd-mailx to test sending emails from terminal. The cronjob entry was …
I needed to pull off a quick website that would have various mathematics questions, and thought to try and use pandoc. Here are my learnings:
I first installed pandoc-bin because I didn't to deal with a lot of haskell dependencies.
yay -S pandoc-bin
The first iteration I made generated an …
I was reading SQL antipatterns and got into the chapter about recursive queries and how there are different ways to approach this. I wanted to experiment with this and found that postgresql supports recursive queries. I decided to make a simple commenting database and see how it would work.
I used vimwiki for task management, with a couple of custom snippets and scripts, but this quickly became complicated. I needed another tool that would be easy to use, easy to understand and easy to tweak. TaskLite fit these conditions perfectly:
I had a new laptop but couldn't access my previous one, so I had to figure out how to get my pass secrets. I had these problems:
I recently got a Thinkpad T440 and decided to document the steps I took to set up archlinux. The last time I'd done this was on the Asus Zenbook UX330UA some years back. I thought the process would be different, but it was largely similar.
I first got the iso …
I'd started the Kindle-Highlights project without tests. This was a problem because I couldn't add features as fast as I wanted because I'd break something without knowing. I needed to add tests to speed up my development. For haskell, hspec is a tool/library for this. Setting this up on …
I use ultisnips for my snippets. To set this up, I have this in vimrc:
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'SirVer/ultisnips' | Plug 'honza/vim-snippets' " Snippet support
call plug#end()
let g:UltiSnipsExpandTrigger="<c-e>" " Default is <tab>
let g:UltiSnipsEditSplit="vertical"
let g:UltiSnipsSnippetDirectories=["UltiSnips", "mysnippets"]
This …
Kindle saves highlights, bookmarks and notes in a My Clippings.txt file. I needed a way to parse it and filter out the content I wanted. I also wanted to work on a parser in haskell, so this was a great opportunity to get my hands dirty.
I used stack …