Interview with John Agosta from Canonical/Ubuntu on working remotely
In this interview on remote work, I’m speaking to John Agosta from Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu). As a long-time Canonical team member, John and my paths have crossed …
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Building a Pwnagotchi for WiFi penetration testing (with a PaPiRus Zero display)
Security has been an interest for me for a long time. This is why Pwnagotchi piqued my interest. Using cheap hardware, you can create your own lightweight WiFi (and Bluetooth) …
Home Assistant, ESPHome and JZK ESP-32S
Long story short, I’ve pimped out my apartment with a lot of Ikea Smart products, such that I can control (and automate) everything from Home Assistant. While I admittedly …
Install Ubuntu Core 18/22 on Proxmox
Today I was trying to get Ubuntu Core 18/22 working on Proxmox. Given that it is a KVM based tool, it’s fairly straight-forward, but took me a bit of time go get working …
Interview with Rimas Mocevicius from JFrog on working remotely
First out in this interview series, we have Rimas Mocevicius. Rimas is someone that I got to know from the London Kubernetes scene some time ago. He worked on Deis (before it got …
What are the best productivity hacks?
People love talking about productivity hacks (a.k.a. productivity porn). The “hacks” usually range from the latest tools (todo-lists, email clients) to workflow …
So you want to build a remote company?
Little did I know when I wrote A Decade of Remote Work that it would completely blow up. After being featured on Hacker News, the article to this day keeps driving a significant …
Remote Work is Deep Work
Over the last few years, two things that I’ve paid close attention to are Deep Work and Remote Work. In this article we will explore this and discover how closely these to concepts …
Mental Health and Remote Work
In recent years, we’ve started to see more people speaking out about mental health in the tech industry. This is great, as it is a topic that has been somewhat taboo in the past. …
A Decade of Remote Work
Intro While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first project was called YippieMail …
Troubleshoot HTTPS with curl
Troubleshooting an HTTPS connection can be somewhat challenging at times (in particular if Cloudflare is involved). Today, I had to troubleshoot a Kubernetes (Nginx) Ingress …
Kubernetes and RBAC with examples
In Kubernetes 1.8, RBAC was introduced to improve the security. Prior RBAC, any pod is more or less able to interact with the rest of the cluster without constraints. This means …