Geeky Blinders

Author: JFab

  • MLS Cup 2024 Viewership

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    The 2024 MLS season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago on December 7th, with the LA Galaxy defeating the New York Red Bulls 2-1. Since then, some of spouted doom and gloom regarding the abysmal performance of the game on broadcast television, which reported a 47% drop in viewership compared to the previous Cup.…

  • Fedora 41 Released

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    Back in my nascent days of using Linux as a desktop operating system, I was guilty of distro-hopping all the time. Every time something new released, I would want to try it out and learn the differences. Now that I’m older with less free time and about 18 years of using Linux under my belt,…

  • Vampire Survivors+

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    As an Apple One subscriber, I periodically check out new games added to the Apple Arcade. Some of them, like NFL Retro Bowl 25 or A Slight Chance Of Sawblades end up being terrific games that I spend a lot of time with. Most of them, however, I end up uninstalling pretty quickly and firing…

  • Beauty Of The Apple Ecosystem

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    While detractors like to throw a lot of hate toward Apple’s ecosystem, the simple fact is that when everything you have is from Apple, it’s amazing just how seamlessly things work together. Nowhere was this more apparent than when I recently got a new Apple TV 4K. Generally speaking, setting up a smart TV device…

  • Sports Streaming Debacle

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    As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve recently gotten back into the habit of following various sports. From not watching any sports for years, I now regularly watch: One major different in watching sports as compared to basically anything else is that it can be so painful to be able to watch exactly what you want. For…

  • GitHub Container Registry and K3s

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    Considering we have paid GitHub accounts at work, I’ve started using the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) for storing our production-level container images. It was my first foray not doing either: There are limitations to how much GHCR can be used with our current plan, including 2 GB of overall storage and 10 GB of transfer…

  • Groovy App Deployment

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    As I’ve mentioned before, I do a decent bit of Groovy development at work. Most of that code runs under the context of a SaaS application that I’ve mentioned before, so worrying about most things related to the execution environment isn’t relevant. Recently, though, I had a need to write a little app to sync…

  • NFL Retro Bowl 25

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    I grew up watching football, was lucky enough to see a couple of Super Bowl wins for my home Steelers before moving away from the area, and then promptly losing interest since there were no streaming options at the time (and NFL Sunday Ticket was absurdly expensive, just like it still is today.) Now living…

  • Removing Nodes From Open Source Puppet

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    At work we leverage Puppet for management of our infrastructure. While tools like Ansible seem to get a lot more love in the industry due to things like being based on Python (Puppet is Ruby-based) and using YAML for its definitions (Puppet has its own DSL, or Domain Specific Language), it works extremely well for…

  • 2024 Cincinnati Bengals Sideline Hats

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    The start of another NFL season is officially upon us. After scooping up tickets for a December game against my hometown Steelers at the very moment they released to sitting 2 rows back from the field for my first ever preseason game, I’m excited to see what the Bengals can do this year. There are…