worldofgeese

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I'm the author. With 5 years experience as a DevOps Engineer then Lead, I've wanted, for a very long time, to distill my critique and pave a way toward a healthier practice of DevOps. Before anyone jumps to tell me how DevOps Engineer is a misnomer, I address this in the article.

I wrote this piece because DevOps has all too often been misunderstood as a practice. Here I attempt to examine successful DevOps practice as a sociotechnical solution that weds culture and tools (the DevOps most are familiar with) with radical agency and visibility. I reference some stupendous thinkers in this space, like Jabe Bloom and Andrew Clay Shafer who were the first to argue for a sociotechnical approach to our work as IT professionals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.

Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.

Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hey there, for a very simple start there's the compose.yaml file at the bottom of my comment here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The Intel discrete cards are fantastic value for money. There's plenty of folks on the internet who can attest to this. Intel's support story in general (so not just graphics cards) on Linux has been nothing less than sterling. If you're using any Linux kernel you can expect Intel stuff to just work. It's been this way for at least a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

WebOS powers TVs now and, from the article, Amazon intends this replacement to cover their Fire tablet line. WebOS ticks all their boxes, especially since apps in Amazon's new flavor are intended to be delivered as React Native web apps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm devastated they didn't choose to pick up webOS for this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you're looking for the GitLab version of Codeberg's hosted Forgejo Git forge, there's Framagit hosted by Framasoft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This sounds like something on your end as I get cached builds every time, rootlessly even. Podman also supports cache mounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Check my comment history for an example of a simple bind mount compose.yaml I use for developing a small Python project. It's exactly the same as Docker Compose (since Podman Compose follows the Compose spec) but if you're just getting started, it might be a good skeleton to build on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's real usability benefits too. I've collected some anecdotes from Reddit:

Rootless podman is my first choice for using containers now, it works fantastically well in my experience. It's so much nicer to have all my container related stuff like volumes, configs, the control socket, etc. in my home directory and standard user paths vs. scattered all over the system. Permission issues with bind mounts just totally disappear when you go rootless. It's so much easier and better than the root privileged daemon.

and,

If you are on Linux, there is the fantastic podman option "--userns keep-id" which will make sure the uid inside+the container is the same as your current user uid.+

and,

Yeah in my experience with rootless you don't need to worry about UID shenanigans anymore. Containers can do stuff as root (from their perspective at least) all they want but any files you bind mount into the container are still just owned/modified by your user account on the host system (not a root user bleeding through from the container).

finally,

The permissions (rwx) don't change, but the uid/gid is mapped. E.g. uid 0 is the running user outside the container, by uid 1 will be mapped to 100000 (configurable), and say 5000 inside the container is mapped to 105000. I don't remember the exact mapping but it works roughly like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I try to write about it as much as I can here! There's also [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can use Git, Syncthing or any other FOSS sync tool of your choice.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Logseq is FOSS and easily one of the best notetaking apps out there. It's got whiteboards, interlinking at the block level, a big ecosystem of extensions and multiple panes so you can derive context as you write.

It's my choice for the majority of writing I do in my day to day and hasn't let me down once. My only wish list feature is multiplayer but that's coming soon.

 

OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!

 

Is it Apple's Magic Trackpad? If I dual-boot Windows (for work, I swear!) does it work equally as well across both?

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