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A reflection on a recent interview
A few weeks ago, I interviewed for an SRE role. At last, they asked me that classic question: What would happen if you typed [Website Name Here] and hit Enter? I think I didn’t answer the …
2026-10-14
adding ebpf exporter to home OBS
Could it be simple as: sudo apt install libelf-dev pci.ids -y cd ~/src git clone https://github.com/cloudflare/ebpf_exporter make
2026-05-25
Homelab OBS - How I got started
I finally got some time to work on the Observability for my homelab. Prometheus, standard exporters, Grafana, alert-manager, and Jaeger are living in their natural habitat. And… Awkwardly …
2026-05-10
Setting up Vault HA with CockroachDB
Frankly most of this was pretty easy and not much to write about… auto unseal is a bit tricky to setup freely
2024-08-24
Getting akkoma to run
While trying to deploy akkoma with docker on my rootless docker environment, I have encountered the classical permission denied error:
2023-11-23
Migrating my Blog to Hugo
I love WriteFreely, I really do. And to my surprise it actually under a quite active development. The only complaint I have is that there’s a feature I wanted so badly for a very very long time, …
2023-01-01
Moving Writefreely Site to Docker
Moving WriteFreely site to Docker Though I’m not a big fan of unnecessary containerization, at some point, you’ll want the convenience of the docker, you know, like eliminate the need to …
2021-08-30
Docker started using 192.168.0.0/16 subnets all of in sudden
I was having fun with Jupyter and wanted to move it to my Docker host so it can benefit from the GPU. With effective configs:
2021-02-03
Just when you want to use `systemctl --user` with fish
~ > systemctl --user status Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory ~> systemctl --user status ● $HOSTNAME State: running Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 0 units Since: Wed 2021-01-27 …
2021-01-28
Disable Translations in Apt
Sometimes non-server distros come with a lot of languages, takes a long time to update. So: #/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations Acquire::Languages "none";
2021-01-06

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