Posts

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. 🛃

Store encrypted kubernetes secrets safely in your gitops repository with easy-to-use age encryption. 🔐

Access files over NFS within kubernetes pods with a quick volume mount. 🗄

Upgrade your Supermicro BIOS firmware from Linux using their SUM utility. 🔧

Learn how to install TD Ameritrade’s ThinkOrSwim desktop application on Linux and get everything working. 💸

The alacritty terminal on Fedora enables HiDPI mode by default. Break out your magnifying glasses as we disable HiDPI. 👓

Host your own personal URL shortener with GitHub Actions and Cloudflare Workers. No web or database servers required! 🥰

Brave recently changed how their browser reads managed policy configuration, but luckily the fix is an easy one. 🔧

At first I thought Twitter was the problem, but then I realized I was making poor choices. 🤔

Want to build your own Fedora 35 image for AWS? Use Image Builder to build and deploy an image made just for you. 🏗

Provision services on Microsoft’s Azure CLI on Fedora 35. 💙

Tailscale provides a handy private network mesh across multiple devices but it needs security just like any other network. 🕵

One of the smallest ThinkPads delivers one of the best experiences I’ve had on a laptop. 💻

Package up graphical applications in containers and run them with podman. 🚢

Adjust the LED backlight on your laptop quickly in i3 on Linux. 💡

Learn how to forward ports with firewalld for IPv4 and IPv6 destinations. 🕵🏻

I set out to read a bunch of books this summer and succeeded! Here’s my reading list. 📚

Sometimes network interface autonegotiation doesn’t work as well as it should. Luckily, you can fix it with systemd-networkd. 🔧

Launch your containers on Fedora CoreOS instances in Hetzner cloud with a few workarounds. 🚀

Re-use the same wildcard TLS certificate for multiple containers running behind traefik. 🚦

Build images for AWS and deploy them to your AWS account all within GitHub Actions. 🤖

Use the new DHCPv6 prefix delegation features in systemd-networkd to make IPv6 subnetting easy! 🎉

Firefox allows you to set dark mode as the default without changing themes or changing your desktop configuration. 😎

Enable tap-to-click on your laptop’s touchpad in i3 with one of two methods. 💻

Improve your persuasive skills to get your team on board with solutions to tough problems. 🤔

Run rootless Linux containers without any daemons using docker-compose and podman on Fedora! 📦

icanhazip.com lives on with the same mission, but with a new owner 🤗

Emojis brighten up any message or document. 🌻 Search, select, and use emojis quickly on Linux with rofimoji. 🤗

Investing in stock or trading options is complicated, but there are plenty of free resources available to make research easier.

Feedback from my original options selling post said that the concept was too difficult to follow. Let’s use an analogy!

Monitor nearly any uninterruptible power supply (UPS) with a Raspberry Pi Zero W and HomeAssistant

You did your research and made a great options trade, but now it is a losing trade. What can you do now?

Not all stock brokerages are the same. Think about your requirements, shop around, and read the fine print.

Taking the leap and selling your first options contract takes a lot of thought and preparation.