It has been a hell of a ride with my old laptop, the HP Spectre x360. I had a refurbished Lenovo Yoga for 18 months but that also came to an end. I could easily spend money on grocery without even thinking, but electronics. Hell no!

It took me more than a month to decide for a new laptop. For a lo...

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In a burst of good intentions and desire to bring some automation to chores like planning the shopping list for the week, spread some information for the upcoming wedding, and other things, I decided to buy a domain and start building my homelab on my rpi4. To start with, I had troubles with my prov...

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I stumbled upon some kubernetes cronjobs recently, that were using several ENV variables as arguments to the script being run.

When the necessity to run the command with a specific argument arose, I had to patch the container's image using a kubectl patch command. After I was done, I wondered if...

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What do all these three things share?

rainbow_keyboards

Yes, mechanical keyboards.

Intro

I know that the realm of Mechanical Keyboards is a land filled with customization and with a community that is passionate and fervent. Although I do not share the drive most of the people I talked to have, I did e...

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Many times I have been tempted to install an IRC bouncer. I use it often to keep in touch with maintainers and other folks online. Often, I got discouraged because I did not want to configure an additional piece of software. Only last week, I decided to give it a try.

Problem Statement

I hop-on...

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