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October brings us the Halloween holiday here in the US and I set off on an adventure into some spooky and unsettling books. 👻

Moving to cloud is about much more than just capital efficiency. It enables your teams to do more if they’re willing to adopt some new practices.

Here’s a blog post to answer the question: Why do you write so much about CoreOS? 📦

Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦

Fedora now has the AWS Elastic File Store (EFS) mount helper available for Fedora 38 and newer releases! It chooses optimized NFS mount options for you and makes mounting and unmounting a breeze.

If you love to nerd out on just about anything, give it a try the next time you buy a car.

I woke up one morning to find my Ghost blog unresponsive. It required an unexpected fix. 🔧

Want to make a change in an open source project? Take the Nike approach and Just Do It. 👟

Adding an AWS CloudFront CDN distribution to a Ghost blog improves response times on an already fast blogging platform and increases security along the way. ⚡

Ghost delivers a great self-hosted blogging platform that deploys well in containers. Let’s deploy it on CoreOS along with Caddy. ️📝

Layoffs create traumatic times for many. Find ways to break through the frustration and pain. For those that stay, your ability to influence the business can grow. 🪴

Podman’s new quadlet feature lets you specify container launch configuration via simple systemd-like unit files. 📦

CoreOS provides a fast track to running containers with a light weight immutable OS underneath. This doesn’t mean that you can’t keep it around as a pet instance. 🐕

My issues with open source mailing lists aren’t with the technology, but with unorganized pattern of the discourse itself. 🖇️

Add a Fedora x86_64 or aarch64 image to Oracle Cloud and launch an instance. 🚀

Segment your home network easily with a VLAN on a Mikrotik router. 🖥️

1Password has a handy quick access launcher and you can bring it on screen for fast access to passwords and two factor codes in Sway. 🔐

After trying several services for home phones, I found a solution that costs me about $0.85 per month. ️️☎️

Nobody likes a surprise bill. Learn some ways to keep your AWS bill under control and avoid that end of the month panic. 😱

New experiences bring joy! After working with fun AWS CloudFront hacks at work this week, I decided to migrate this blog to AWS S3 and CloudFront. ⛅

Every job has its ups and downs, but when is it the right time to double down or the right time to leave? Make a list of red flags that help you decide. 🚩

Watchtower keeps an eye on your running containers and updates them when new containers appear upstream. 📦

Although my first attempt at self-hosting Mastodon was a failure, I went back for a second attempt with docker-compose. 🧗‍♂️

1Password’s CLI tool connects via PolicyKit to the 1Password application for authentication, but this isn’t the easiest in i3. 🔑

Adopting the keto lifestyle in 2023? Here are some pointers from me after three years. 🍽

My go-to method for managing containers easily is still docker-compose. It works really well on Fedora CoreOS. 📦

Podcasts provide a great way to keep up with current events or learn more about the world around us, especially while we’re doing other activities. 🎧

Keep your composure with diacritics, symbols, and other characters with the compose key! ⌨

Automatically switch your system audio to your bluetooth headset as soon as they connect. 🎧

Avoid cloud provider modifications and deploy a genuine release version of Fedora 37 on Hetzner Cloud. ⛅

Setting up the multimedia keys on Ducky One keyboards lets you manage your music quickly. ⌨

Have family or coworkers in multiple time zones? Get multiple clocks with i3status. ⌚

Take quick screenshots and send them to the clipboard in i3 with maim. 📸

Simplify your i3 configuration and monitor sound levels with volumeicon in your tray with the i3 window manager. 🔈

Ongoing changes at Twitter led me to take a second look at mastodon, including running my own mastodon instance. 🐘

Running gets me outside and gives me a challenge where I can compete against myself. Here are my tips for becoming an amateur runner. 🎽

Mikrotik routers and switches serve as efficient network devices, but they know other tricks, too. Monitor your UPS with a Mikrotik device and query it via SNMP. 🔌

Tailscale exit nodes allow you to route your traffic through nearly any system in your tailnet. Learn how to build an exit node using firewalld. 🕳️

Success at work depends on more than your technical ability. Improve your soft skills to increase your impact. 💪

Get systems online quickly or rescue a broken system by PXE booting from netboot.xyz using a Mikrotik router. 🛠

This feels very meta, but I thought it would be a good idea to share my blog post writing process anyway. 📝

This book teaches you more than dieting – it changes how you think about food entirely. 🍽

Some people say I just enjoy the sound of my mechanical keyboard too much. 🤭 I see it as a simpler, more consistent workflow.

Add encrypted ssh keys to your workflow more efficiently with gnome-keyring in the sway window manager.

Efficiently communicate a problem and your recommendation in record time with an SBAR. 📝

The original icanhazip.com lives on, but the other services are going offline. 😢

Because nobody wants an inefficient emoji workflow. 🙈

Reload your sway config without disrupting Firefox. 🔥

Learn how to customize a CentOS Stream 9 cloud image with the stuff you want and nothing that you don’t. 📦

Keep prying eyes away from your sites behind Traefik with basic authentication. 🛃