Geeky Blinders

Category: Technology

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why YouTube Is Better Than Udemy: Or How To Not Get Stuck In Tutorial Hell

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    Anyone who works in tech knows that there’s always more stuff to learn. It’s a rapidly evolving area, and whether it’s new programming languages, new frameworks, new deployment methods, etc. new things are cropping up all the time. I work at a fairly small company, so we often need to adjust the technology we use…

  • Office 365: Clearing Mailbox Stops At 30 GB

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    Recently at work, we needed to make a shared account for some API credentials to a service. Not wanting to tie them to any individual user, I thought we could create a new proxy address, assign it to a shared mailbox that all relevant people had access to, and sign up with that. I quickly…

  • Groovy FastStringService RuntimeException

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    One of the systems I use at work is a Java-based SaaS platform. This platform makes itself extensible by allowing for custom scripting to be done on it via Groovy, a scripting language that runs on the JVM. This is a fairly common setup that I’ve seen on a variety of platforms over the years,…

  • Helm With K3s On Ubuntu

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    I’ve recently needed to use Helm with K3s on Ubuntu. helm is a separate application from Kubernetes that uses the standard K8s APIs in order to interface with whatever Kubernetes cluster it’s pointed at. On Ubuntu, it’s not available via apt and must be installed as a Snap: Helm will typically source its connection URL…

  • Proton Pass Desktop Application

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    Earlier this month, Proton Pass released a new desktop application. I had written previously about using Proton Pass, and my only real gripe was: While the browser extension worked great in Firefox, I still like using Safari on macOS since it gives me a nice, consistent experience across my MacBook, iPhone, and iPad. While I…