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This week was all about attending Container Days Not just attending, but actually speaking there! On a stage! The room was crowded with folks sitting on the floor at the back of it – this gav…
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on Sep 6
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Week 50: k8s, Kirby, and Dark Souls 3
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I gave the Kubernetes 101 Workshop for the last time this year with my colleague Simon and it was fun I continued building my website with Kirby, and I aim for a launch around January. As part of t…
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I started playing Cyberpunk 2077 again, wanting to give it another go after all the changes since launch. It’s good, but I still miss a lot of little things. Looking forward to trying the DLC…
on Nov 8
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What a slow week Everybody was sick, including me, but me the least 🤧 Now, as I write this, I feel my tonsils grow so I guess this weekend will be spend in bed 🥴 We watched “Nightmare before …
on Nov 1
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I began building my new website with Kirby Kirby is incredibly flexible and fun to work with I imported most Articles into it using lonekorean/wordpress-export-to-markdown but there’s still a…
on Oct 25
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I was on vacation staying at my in-laws and it was very very nice Coming back to Wiesbaden feels … bad. It’s so loud and so dirty and just not nice. We moved to Wiesbaden five years ago because we …
on Oct 22
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Inspired by nownownow.com, full-circle back to my nownownow.com page. Last updated: 06. October 2024 Work I work at AOE GmbH as a DevOps / Platform Engineer and I like it a lot! Life I try to drink…
on Oct 6
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I just finished scanning the photos from the roll of 120 film I developed a few days ago. My scan setup is still pretty trash, but I shoot so little analog film at the moment it isn’t worth i…
on Oct 5
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Short-ish week with a public holiday on Thursday We went for a little BBQ near the Rhine but it was quite cold so we didn’t stay long. Was still nice to be out tho! Didn’t take Friday i…
on Oct 4
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I realised I rarely share any photographs here. I sometimes update the Photography overview page, but definitely want to publish more of the photos I take before they vanish into the digital ether.…
on Oct 1
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I was on-call this week (technically still am as of writing) I joined the k9s Slack and kick-started a documentation website for k9s using Docsy. It’s nice to work with a Hugo based site agai…
on Sep 29
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A little PSA: I installed Matomo to track visitors to my website. I want to understand what content performs well, where visitors are coming from, and what areas of my site I should put (more) atte…
on Sep 23
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The Recording of my Container Days talk has been published. Yay! 📼 I gave the same talk again at the TechTalk Wiesbaden on Wednesday, but in German. 🗣️ I didn’t practice the German version be…
on Sep 20
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My Container Days talk recording is here!
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Hearing myself speak is soooo weird but here we go: My talk from Container Days 2024! Very excited to have the recording, and looking forward to my next talks!
on Sep 19
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I finally joined the charli xcx hype after seeing her Boiler Room Ibiza Party Set. 😮💨🔥 I’m also very much into Scowl, a hardcore band from the US at the moment. Listening to them on repeat b…
on Sep 13
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RE: Meta scraped all public Facebook and Instagram posts since 2007 for AI training
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Fuck Meta. Facebook, now called Meta, has been scraping all public posts of Facebook and Instagram since 2007 to train their AIs. Back in June, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to do this, a…
on Sep 13
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This week was all about the annual congstar Hackathon! Lots of interesting projects, and I finally had a bit of time to do some Rust programming Part of the Hackathon was a dance in front of the co…
on Aug 30
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The wife, the kids, and me watched all Lord of the Rings movies, extended versions of course. 10/10 would watch again Atlas Fallen is now in Gamepass and I’m looking forward to it! Played the game …
on Aug 24
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I continued working a lot on my Container Days talk. Thanks to the amazing Design Team at AOE – and especially the help of my colleague Annika – it looks amazing and I’m super exc…
on Aug 16
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Started prepping for… Container Days! With less than a month to go I’m working on finalising my slides for my talk. There’s still some tickets left. I worked a lot with Kyverno th…
on Aug 10
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Today I I received my scans from the films I shot during our summer vacation a few week ago ! I’m once again in awe with the beauty of film photography. These are more casual and taken on a s…
on Aug 6
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RE: Leaked GitHub Python Token
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It seems the Python ecosystem just dodged a huge bullet. A personal access token from a developer was accidentally leaked and put into a Docker image, being on the public web for some time. Accordi…
on Aug 5
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I started the week with being sick, turns out it wasn’t another cold but Corona. Had a really shitty time on Saturday and a relatively shitty time during the week. Because of Corona I was off work …
on Aug 4
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For the longest time I’ve had a sort of craving to have a Linux Desktop again. It wasn’t enough to switch to Linux completely when I started at AOE GmbH in 2023, but it was always there…
on Aug 1
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😳 My glasses broke while I was cleaning them. Wtf? 👓 Used this „opportunity“ to get my vision checked and also bought some new glasses 🫠 on Sunday the weather has been hot and wet and I felt like m…
on Jul 28
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Ah yes, finally vacation. After a long-ass night train ride to the North Sea we enjoyed the beach 🌊 I found hermit crabs – didn’t even know they lived in the North Sea! it was nice to be (kin…
on Jul 20
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On Tuesday it felt like this meme of the captain and Tintin (is Tintin the name of the guy? I really don’t know. I think it is.) I managed to get Fedora running on an MacBook. Thanks to most …
on Jul 12
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RE: Second Factor SMS: Worse than It’s Reputation
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Another day, another (big) leak: CCC, Chaos Computer Club, obtained millions of SMS containing Two-Factor Auth (2FA) tokens which where publicly available on the internet. One-time passwords are of…
on Jul 11
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Two Factor Auth, Password managers, and cloud sync
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A guide on how I secure my passwords, 2FA data, and sync between devices For years I have not given much thought to passwords, security, or how to manage my passwords efficiently and securely. I us…
on Jul 11
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Another week, another set of weeknotes! This week we got games, books, and a cake that isn’t a lie!
on Jul 5
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A post by Kev Quirk titled “Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media?” made the rounds in my tiny internet bubble, and I want to jump-in and talk a bit about having a personal w…
on Jul 2
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New week, new weeknotes, new fuckups by yours truly. I somehow managed to delete all feeds from my miniflux database, and now all my feeds are gone. Fuck me 🤖 Of course I did not have backups becau…
on Jun 29
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polyfill.io supply chain attack
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New week, new supply chain attack! Polyfill.io was a big thing back in the day when browsers lacked certain JavaScript features. It polyfilled (is that even a word) the JavaScript runtime by implem…
on Jun 26
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I went to get my nose piercing checked and all is good, still not fully healed but all is well.While sitting down at the store I twisted my foot somehow and now it hurts – wtf? Weather has be…
on Jun 26
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This post was originally going to be a point on this week’s weeknotes, but I decided to give it a bit more space. The hot-talk in my internet bubble this week is Perplexity AI. It’s a A…
on Jun 26
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Right from the early 2000s to your screen: A blogroll 🎉 Keeping the distributed WWW alive! The world-wide-web lives from being home to lots of independent sites and places. We kind of lost the spir…
on Jun 25
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Learning Haskell: Caesar cipher
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In my quest to learn Haskell I’ve been reading through Learn You A Haskell, a great book on understanding Haskell. BEFORE WE START: I do not know much about Haskell, I’ve started learni…
on Jun 25
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Another week gone means it’s time for another set of weeknotes! This week I am feeling stupid. 😵💫 I started digging into Haskell, a purely functional programming language and it’s supe…
on Jun 25
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RE: BundID: Eine digitale Identität schafft (falsches) Vertrauen
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Ohje… was ist da wieder los? Lilith Wittmann dokumentiert, wie sie innerhalb von kürzester Zeit eine Fake Seite mit dem BundID Login ausstatten konnte und somit legitim wirken lies. Wild! Weil ich …
on Jun 24
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AI now means Apple Intelligence
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Yesterday (10. June 2024) Apple revealed its new features for the next releases of iOS, MacOS, et all. and with no big surprise the reveal included the addition of AI tools into the operating syste…
on Jun 24
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RE: What if we worked together
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The folks at Ghost are building federation into … Ghost! Ghost is the latest of a growing number of networks joining the Fediverse by implementing ActivityPub (among them are Flipboard and Th…
on Jun 23
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RE: The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet
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A big-ass botnet1 has been dismantled by an international cooperation of agencies led by law enforcement in the United States, Singapore, Thailand, and Germany. […] devices were associated wi…
on Jun 23
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Another week, another weeknotes! I spent some time trying out nix. I’ve been curious about it for a while but didn’t have a real use case. Now I found one and I’m excited to try s…
on Jun 15
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10 years ago, on June 6th 2014, the first commit was made to kubernetes. Quoting the original README file Kubernetes is an open source reference implementation of container cluster management. What…
on Jun 7
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I do not envy the people who are working as fact checkers (or who volunteer!), because there sure is a ton of fakes and propaganda out there to be checked and debunked. The graffitis, videos or scr…
on Jun 6
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Another week passes which means it’s time for this blogs money-maker category: Weeknotes! I started playing Immortals of Aveum this week. I really like it so far, it’s an interesting wo…
on May 31
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A very good take on putting AI into everything because that’s the big thing right now: Trust is a precious commodity. It takes a long time to build trust. It takes a short time to destroy it.…
on May 29
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RE: Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h
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They would not offer us anything apart from a full deal for $10k per month, which would magically resolve the issue. They were not interested in any other resolution. via Now that’s just fuck…
on May 27
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Week 25: Board games and nose piercings
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Started the week with a public Holiday spent at the Thermalbad Aukammtal, which is always nice Tuesday I went to the gym again since I’m not sick and not feeling sick-ish and my rib is healed…
on May 24