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Better Slacking
When I started working here we were around 50 employees in two countries, and now we’re going past 300 in four. I think we’ve outgrown our organically-evolved Slack usage and we’ve slowly bumped into a few problems, or at least things that aren’t as good as they could be. There’s a few people who agree…
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Parsing JSON fields in AWS Log Insights
This just took me too long to figure out to not write down somewhere! Say you have a log of the form: My reading of the log insights docs made me think this ought to work: Because you’re wanting to parse the message field out of the JSON. But it won’t, because rather than interpreting…
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Adding a (scientifically-useful?) workload to k3s
I’ve got a k8s cluster in my cupboard, and the plan here is to work on some debugging and monitoring posts and tools, so I need a workload. The first workload will be folding@home, because it’s easy :) And in a break from helming, I’m going to apply the manifest here. We have a couple…
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Fixing MacBook Wifi with a Raspberry Pi
I have an M1 Macbook Pro and a thunderbolt dock, and I am suffering what seems to be a reasonably normal experience of often-poor net connections: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/441705/m1-macbook-pro-drops-wifi-periodically My dock (a CalDigit) doesn’t have its own WiFi chipset (quite reasonably – what am I going to plug into it that doesn’t have its own?) but it…
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Modern laptops are quite good, actually
There’s some talk in the bits of the Internet I hang out in around how poor modern laptops are. As expected (given the bits of the Internet I frequent) a lot of this boils down to the way modern laptops are not Thinkpads. The most recent thing I read was An Epitaph To Laptops and,…
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Grafana on k3s (with metallb and nginx)
This is a follow-on from my earlier post, but hopefully k8s is consistent enough that you don’t need to know that. Sadly, this is less helmy :( Use the Prometheus-operator We’ll use the prometheus operator to install and configure prometheus. First, let’s get everything created. This will clone a git repo then create a bunch…
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K3S with metallb and nginx-ingress
I followed Greg Jeanmart’s tutorial for this a few years back, but things have changed, as they always do in k8s! I’m also lazy and like to steer close to Helm installing stuff. This is all on a Debian machine who’s hostname is nuc Install K3s First, install k3s, without servicelb (we will use metallb)…
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Learning MacOS
I’ve just taken a job where I get a Macbook, and here I’m going to keep track of some problems I hit and what their solutions are. This is not a flamey list of things that are awful about MacOS so much as a list of things macos does that are unlike what I’m used…
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The Zumo XT is much better than the 346
I’ve bought another Garmin :) In planning our trip to World Ducati Week it became clear I’d be navigating, and the weather would be unpredictable. I’ve found that whenever I have a problem with a phone navigation it’s my fault, but if the Garmin goes wrong then that’s expected, so I decided to at least…
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kubectl port-forward and the lost art of bash job control
A really common part of debugging stuff in k8s is to create a port-forward and then open a new shell and do a thing. Which is fine and easy when you’re port-forwarding to the machine you’re actually sat at, but less so when you’re not.
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Good Meetings
I’m holding a lot of meetings at the moment, for a bunch of different reasons, and with different people. I’ve settled on some principles that I think are pretty universally true: All meetings are optional If someone doesn’t want to be in a meeting then they probably won’t gain anything from being there, and nor…
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Perl Language server in VS Code
Thanks to Grinnz via haxmeister: Do cpan PLS and then install this plugin:
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Satnav Features
There’s a number of features of a satnav that seem really obvious, yet many or most don’t have them. This is another conversation I keep having, so here’s my list. If you’re building a satnav, please steal these ideas!
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Documentation
Documentation is a last resort. Few people want to read a document, and fewer still want to write it. I think the appropriate attitude towards documentation is to have a little of it as possible. First, try to not write documentation In an ideal world, we don’t need any documentation because everyone already knows everything.…
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Podcasts
I keep talking to people about podcasts, so here’s my list of the ones I’ve probably recommended at you: Ones I listen to regularly Do The Right thing – Comedy panel show where guests have to figure out the right way to respond to given situations. More comedy than panel show. Something Rhymes With Purple…
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Garmin Zumo 346 “Review”
I’ve spent a long time using various Android phones and apps to navigate on a motorbike, and mostly been unimpressed with dedicated satnavs. I’ve written a not-unbiased comparison of dedicated units with phones and generally while I’m not completely satisfied with the app offerings, they do seem better than using a dedicated unit. I did,…
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XT660R
Numbers Equivalent parts The brake pads are the same (both front and rear) as a Husky 701 Footpegs are compatible with the XT250 (08-18), YZ/WR 125/250/500 (91-96), YZ80 (91-04), XTZ750 Super Ten (89-18) and Husky TC85: https://pivotpegz.com/search?q=PP-16
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Toolroll
“What tools do you carry” is something that’s come up a few times on forums I’m on recently, and the raft of issues at the Taffy last week vindicated my tool selection :) On any ride that I think about, I take my tool roll. This is generally on the Tiger 800 or WR450, but…