Geeky Blinders

Category: Technology

  • Determining Which Service Kicked Off A Linux Process

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    I recently found myself needing to check the status of a service. I would traditionally do this via: While this has historically worked for the service in question, this time it gave me a message that there was no service found with that name. That being said, I knew for a fact that the application…

  • Red Sift For Let’s Encrypt Certificate Expiration

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    Recently, Let’s Encrypt announced that they would no longer be sending out notification emails when certificates they’ve issued are about to expire: Since its inception, Let’s Encrypt has been sending expiration notification emails to subscribers that have provided an email address to us. We will be ending this service on June 4, 2025. The short…

  • Sublime Text Arbitrary Language Servers

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    When working with code, I tend to be a person who jumps around between various editors rather than being completely fixated on a single one, for better or for worse. Generally speaking, the following editors are in my normal rotation: Out of these, I don’t think I’d say that I have a favorite; each has…

  • Micro.blog

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    Just under a year ago I wrote about my love/hate relationship with social media and microblogging in particular. Since that post, I’ve stayed away from Mastodon but was a fairly heavy (relatively speaking) Bluesky user. While I like Bluesky, there remain two problems endemic to social media platforms like it: My predominant reason for soldiering…

  • Note Taking Journey

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    With the start of a new year, I’ve once again circled back on my note taking workflow. Notes are something that I consider extremely important. From random things I need to jot down and keep track of in my personal life to technical and meeting notes for work, I’ve had need of a personal knowledge…

  • 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…