Category Archives: Nerd Stuff

Diving into Management – How to do Meetings

In the past months I had the ability to lead small teams in various little projects (for a few days to weeks). This all happened in some open source projects and in my evening classes. I had a course about … Continue reading

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One month in open source projects

I undertook a little experiment last April – to contribute to open source projects for 30 days (similar to #blogmonth). The idea was to contribute in a way that it helps the project itself without any personal gain. For example: … Continue reading

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Creating a reliable Arch Linux Package Build Environment

The Arch Linux developers created some fancy scripts to setup a build environment. It consists of a btrfs subvolume with a minimal Arch Linux installation (only packages from base-devel). A snapshot will be created for each build, the builds will … Continue reading

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32C3 Review Part 1

I visited the 32C3, the annual Hacker conference organized by the CCC and many many volunteers. Here is the first part of a short list of recommended videos (Day 1 of 4): Part1 – annual must-see talks: The Opening is … Continue reading

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#vDM30in30 review and thoughts

Wuhu I made it \o/ this is the 32. post that I create in this November (if I finish it in the next 8 minutes…). I started the 30 posts in 30 posts action on the 2. of November because … Continue reading

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How to be a good Admin/DevOps/IT person

There are two types of system administrators/DevOps/admins/whatever, the first group has a normal 9-5 job, they stop thinking about IT after work, it is a normal job for them. Then there is another group, these people really love their job, … Continue reading

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#puppethack is coming again!

The event description: ########### Join us for #puppethack, our online puppet community hack day, on December 15th! #puppethack is a collaborative, relaxed online puppet community hack day. It will be an opportunity for Puppet community members and Puppet Labs employees … Continue reading

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Building APIs with swagger

I’m currently designing a new API endpoint for marmoset. In general, there are two ways to build this: Just start with coding or start with planning. As we are smart people, of course we start with planning! There are several … Continue reading

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PuppetConf 2015 recordings now available!

During the first week of october 2015 the last PuppetConf happened, Puppet Labs now released the recordings, here are a few that I can recommend: Chocolatey and Puppet: Managing Your Windows Software Since 2011 Many people are still scared about … Continue reading

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(not really) weekly link collection

Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security (with slides) – James Mickens from NDC Conferences on Vimeo. Create Puppet modules with solid foundations How to Use Puppet right The CAP Theorem (only Wikipedia) Serving Dovecot mailbox quota status to … Continue reading

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