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July 11, 2024 •1 min read • Blog

New theme, again

I sucked way too bad at doing this myself, so it’s Hinode now.

June 1, 2024 •7 min read • Hosting

Hetzner dedicated server setup

I rented a Hetzner dedicated server. This describes how I set it up.

October 14, 2023 •1 min read • Snippet

Create ODT files using ZIP

ODT files do not seem to be ‘merely’ ZIP files – here’s how to create them manually.

May 2, 2023 •1 min read • Solved

Hugo: index vs. _index

Hugo differentiates between index.md and _index.md, this is the difference.

May 1, 2023 •1 min read • Blog

Flypenguin Theme ...

I tried to create my own theme. It sucked.

April 30, 2023 •9 min read • Dagster

Getting started with Dagster

A longer post describing how I tried to get started with Dagster (dagster.io).

April 7, 2023 •1 min read • Postgres

pg_dump and pg_restore

Postgres commandline snippets …

March 14, 2023 •1 min read • Terraform

Terraform for_each and output values

A terraform snippet describing how to ‘output’ for_each based resources.

February 26, 2023 •1 min read • Solved

Use VSCodium with Microsoft's proprietary marketplace

I’d rather use VSCodium than any official MS product, unfortunately they blocked it from the official store. Or … tried to, at least.

February 23, 2023 •2 min read • K8s

K8S Cluster autoscaler crashlooping on EKS

Some things about IRSA and autoscaler versions I want to remember after this debugging session.

February 1, 2023 •1 min read • Snippet

Circular imports for Python typing annotations

Imports for type annotations are still imports, thus they can create the “circular import” error. Here’s how to avoid it.

November 11, 2022 •1 min read • Solved

opnSense reply-to & AWS' source/destiny check

opnSense NEVER FORGET reminders when deploying on AWS.

September 15, 2022 •1 min read • Cloud: Aws

Managing S3 bucket permissions with terraform

An example of how I manage(ed) S3 permissions in Terraform.

September 9, 2022 •8 min read • Cloud: Aws

GitLab runners, EKS, IRSA and S3 caching

How to configure GitLab runners on EKS Kubernetes to use IRSA for AWS credentials, and S3 for caching.

August 8, 2022 •1 min read • Cli

Unix path too long for domain socket

Solving a pitfall with re-using SSH connections and overly long unix paths.

July 28, 2022 •1 min read • Linux

Container Linux Distributions

A short list of container-specific Linux distributions I researched.

July 21, 2022 •1 min read • Cli

Fix tmux on Mac

‘backspace’ in tmux might behave weirdly on a Mac due to some unusual keyboard configuration – this is how to fix it.

July 20, 2022 •3 min read • Aws

AWS - Forced MFA and the CLI

A helper script incredibly useful if you want to enforce MFA on AWS also for CLI applications.

June 12, 2022 •1 min read • Automation

Mac quick action - edit PDF documents

Edit PDF documents using macOS Automator & shell scripts

April 8, 2022 •1 min read • Kubernetes

"Old" K8S API reference docs

A link collection to “old” kubernetes API docs for reference.

March 24, 2022 •1 min read • Postgres

Postgres - restore database with different owner

How to restore a DB backup and changing the owner while doing it.

March 9, 2022 •1 min read • Firefox

"Fix" Raindrop addon in Firefox

Fix an annoying Raindrop plugin error in Firefox.

February 8, 2022 •1 min read • Automation

Mac quick action - shrink images

A Quick Action to shrink images using macOS Automator & shell scripts.

February 8, 2022 •1 min read • Automation

Location of Mac "Quick Actions"

Where to click in Automator to create a quick action in macOS.

December 10, 2021 •1 min read • Excel

Excel - convert columns to comments

A weird solution if you want to convert a column containing a lot of text descriptions into cell comments.

November 4, 2021 •1 min read • Solved

Migrating Postgres databases in containers

How to migrate Postgres databases running in Docker containers.

November 4, 2021 •1 min read • Solved

VS Code keymaps in Sublime Text

I ported some key mappings from VS Code to Sublime Text.

November 4, 2021 •1 min read • Postgres

Create user and database in postgres

I always forget how to create a DB, a user, and the appropriate permissions in Postgres – so I wrote it down.

October 29, 2021 •1 min read • Home Assistant

Home Assistant behind proxy

Home Assistant needs special configuration to be put behind a reverse proxy – I want to remember how.

October 29, 2021 •1 min read • Linux

Configure static IP address on Debian systems

The title says it all.

October 18, 2021 •3 min read • Cloud: Aws

AWS - auto-join Windows clients to a managed AD

After the last post, we want Windows hosts that auto-join our managed AD. Here’s how to do this.

October 18, 2021 •2 min read • Cloud: Aws

AWS - create VPC and a managed AD with terraform

The title says it all.

October 17, 2021 •2 min read • Backup

Backup tool selected

My selection criteria & the final winner.

October 15, 2021 •2 min read • Home Assistant

Home Assistant - human readable Fritz!Box uptime

How to display the Fritz!Box uptime in Home Assistant – in a readable way.

October 14, 2021 •1 min read • Cloud: Aws

(AWS managed) AD - give local admin rights to domain users

Windows systems are utterly useless (for me) if I don’t have local admin rights. Here’s how to configure those for local users using the managed AWS AD.

October 14, 2021 •1 min read • Cloud: Aws

Standard AD - auto-map a network drive

… using our managed AWS AD.

October 14, 2021 •2 min read • Cloud: Aws

AWS managed AD - add user RDP permissions

Windows servers really dislike RDP logins. Yet, in the cloud, that’s really the single thing you want to have. Here’s how to make them accept it.

October 14, 2021 •1 min read • Cloud: Aws

AWS managed AD - first steps after creation

The most important steps to perform right after we created a managed AWS AD.

August 21, 2021 •1 min read • Git

Extract parts of a git repo as new one

Sometimes I want to extract a part of an existing repository (e.g. a sub directory), including history, and make a new repo out of it. Here’s how to do this.

August 21, 2021 •1 min read • Cli

jq snippets

The title says it all.

August 18, 2021 •1 min read • Saas

Lexoffice API notes

Some findings after trying to use the LexOffice API for a while.

August 18, 2021 •1 min read • Javascript

JavaScript ISO date with local timezone

It’s missing from standard JavaScript, here’s a workaround.

August 17, 2021 •1 min read • Backup

Backup tool evaluation

I need a backup tool, those are the ones I consider.

August 17, 2021 •1 min read • Blog

remark42 comments

This is a test post. There should be a comment box below, powered by the pretty cool and really well documented remark42 commenting engine. Let’s see … :)

August 16, 2021 •1 min read • Cli

GOPATH and GOROOT

Go confuses me – especially GOPATH and GOROOT. Here is how I (think I) understood it.

August 4, 2021 •1 min read • O365

Completely delete teams on a Mac

The title says it all.

July 31, 2021 •2 min read • Tools: Hugo

Hugo migration experiences

The title says it all.

July 30, 2021 •2 min read • Docker

Auto-rebuild Docker images if base image changes using GitHub actions

The title says it all.

July 25, 2021 •1 min read • Cli

Convert RAW files on a Mac using "sips"

The title says it all.

July 15, 2021 •1 min read • Linux

Unattended upgrades in Debian/Ubuntu

The title says it all.

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