I've been a Vim user for as long as I can remember, but in the last few years VS Code kind of took over as the defacto choice for us DevOps engineers. VS Code is great at offering all kinds of plugins that should, in theory, make life a little easier. It's funny actually, because plugins are the sole reason I never...

The end of the year or your own birthday are both for reflection on the days and months that came before. We try to look back on all the things that went right and the things that maybe could've been better. The highs and the lows, the moments where we experienced stress, where we felt love. We try to make new...

One of the most well-known patterns in infrastructure is having an internal load balancer in front of backend services like application servers. When you're migrating your workloads to say AWS Fargate it's easy to just carry over that same pattern because, well, it works. But, as with all things in the cloud,...

To be clear right off the bat: I don't do well in busy offices. I get distracted easily, I don't like it when people can see what I'm doing, I don't like people talking and radio's blaring. The open office plan truly is the bane of my existence. Therefore, noise cancelling headphones are a Godsend. I've owned just...

I've been an avid user of various Linux distributions for 22+ years now and I will forever love everything about it and what it brought me. I have my entire carreer built on Linux and open source software. I've also known about BSD for about as long, but I never quite got into it, until now. I'm as much a minimalist...

Ever since this COVID-19 thing hit I've been working from home non-stop. That's almost a full year of working remotely and being fully in charge of my own productivity. To be honest, I could keep this going forever - I've never been more productive in my life. The last few months have also been perfect to optimize...

Tmux is a terminal multiplexer. It lets you switch between several programs through windows and panes, detach your session and reattach to it on a different computer. I reckon it's mostly used on servers where people have long running jobs and such running in a tmux session. The learning curve is what always...

Places like Reddit and Twitter are filled with people who practice their version of minimalism. The most prevalent method is to just have less of everything. Some groups of people even go so far as to think they can only have a fixed amount of things in their lives. Don't let anyone tell you this is the spirit of...