Here’s why from a Linux user’s perspective. I’m not a competitive gamer by any stretch, however, I do enjoy casual gaming at my own leisure. I’ve got 73 games on Steam and a few more on Epic games. The challenge — What I wanted to achieve Here’s the challenge I’ve been trying to solve for several months now…

Got Kubernetes certified I started 2022 strong by getting my first certification of the year. For this, I studied since the previous year, so the exam came quite easy. — - Bought a house and moved from Amsterdam Two years in the pandemic were having their toll on my mental health. Combine that with the high rents in Amsterdam and small sized apartments…

Introduction In this article I’ll go over how I built a weather station and integrated it into Home Assistant. This is a beginner’s friendly project for someone new to Home Assistant and electronics and doesn’t require programming experience since it uses ESPHome to program the chip. …

Introduction: What is warping in 3D Printing Warping is the phenomenon in which the lower layers of the 3D print bend upwards and the material detaches from the heated bed. As a result, the print gets ruined by the movement of the hotend when it collides with the model. The pictures bellow show my attempt to print…

TL;DR Recently, I bought a place to call home and decided to invest some time in home automation. In this article, I will go over my choices for smart devices and explain how I integrate and control all of them through Home Assistant (HA). What is Home Assistant A little introduction for the non-initiated ones…

Here’s what I learned — A collection of cool tools I found out about loki : OSS logging tool mizu :(https://getmizu.io) API traffic viewer for Kubernetes k8sGitOps: FluxCD and ArgoCD are the two major ones Tekton: CI tool k9s: CLI tool for accessing and managing k8s resources kaniko: a tool to build docker images on k8s cluster kustomize: a configuration management tool which allows…

A DevOps engineer’s perspective — While working at Hubs, as a DevOps engineer, I was given the freedom to choose a company laptop and install an operating system of my choice. Naturally, I went for a Dell XPS 13 and Manjaro Linux. Recently, started my own company (www.petrousoft.com) and wanted to continue using Manjaro as…

A no bullshit guide to fixing the most annoying feature and discovering a new functionality in Chromecast — My setup Restricted video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cOxMJT-g8 Result Something went wrong

Are they even worth it? — Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this article are from my personal experience and perhaps might not match yours. The goal is to help you decided if studying for AWS certifications is worth your time and provide a few suggestions. Approach this article as informational and entertaining. Introduction Choosing the first AWS…