If you nowadays work with and on the cloud or simply *-as-Code, chances are you came into proximity of ‘Yet Another Markup Language’ (YAML). Deceptively simple in appearance, YAML provides you with a plethora of ways to shoot yourself in the foot. This talk discusses a number of common pitfalls. In a nutshell: Why YAML is not as easy as you may think.
Columnar time-series database with high performance ingestion and SQL analytics you know and love from QuestDB open source, now on the cloud.
The general consensus is that is too hard or too expensive to run a small business on entirely free software. After running my company for 5 years on entirely free software I think this is not the case. We have instant communication, shared calendars, groupware, single sign on, and a single administration interface! Things have worked out really well and in many ways are better integrated than trying to combine multiple different cloud based services.
In this talk I will walk through how our infrastructure works, what the pitfalls were, and what the benefits are. At the end I'll give a short demo on a couple of virtual machines to show off the user and admin experience.
Open-Source kanban. WeKan ® is registered trademark in Finland. Other countries usually honor trademarks of one country.
yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project
A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers
Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson. What makes it different from traditional typography design is that it focuses on letterform distinction to increase character recognition, ultimately improving readability. We are making it free for anyone to use!
Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes in various deployment configurations.
Production ready management for File, Block and Object Storage
In 2020, I presented a talk at FrOSCon titled No, we won’t have a video call for that: Communications for distributed teams. In early 2021 I put together a full-length writeup of that talk, and published it here. And for no apparent reason that article then made it to the top of Hacker News on one day in September 2021,1 and apparently resonated with quite a few people.
And after that, I got a fair number of questions along the lines of “okay, what you talk about is a spot-on description of how I want to work, but how do I get there?” In other words, what can you do in order to transition from a team that’s stuck in meeting hell, to one that actually goes fully distributed and embraces asynchronous communications?
Note: I use the shorthand Meeting Hell for a situation in which people are forced to
be in unnecessary and unproductive video meetings2 for an unhealthy fraction of
their work time.This is admittedly a mere symptom of not having adopted asynchronous and
distributed ways of working, but it’s such a tell-tale sign thereof that it counts as a
dead giveaway. Thus, I think it’s okay to say “I’m stuck in meeting hell” when what
someone means is really “I work in an organization that’s failing badly at
distributed and asynchronous work.”
After No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That, which covered how productive distributed teams operate, and the Getting out of Meeting Hell series, which focused on how you as an individual can get to being a member of a functional distributed team, let’s zoom out a bit.
Let’s discuss a slightly larger, organizational picture, just in case you ask yourself this question: “Why isn’t my organization distributed and asynchronous? And, as companies bleed talent right and left because competent people run for the competition that does get distributed work right, why don’t they wake up and become like that? Can someone please make my company more distributed and asynchronous?”
For additional context, let me interject the following observations from Kris Köhntopp, who posted them in German on Twitter (I am taking the liberty to translate here; emphasis mine):
What’s funny is that [what matters to being successful as a distributed company]
are all learnable skills — written communications, sensible meeting prep and
follow-up, correct definition of objectives and tasks, etc.That’s a craft.
But it appears that organizations prefer to bleed their teams dry by attrition, rather
than to learn, or to hire people that can help teams to write things down,
professionally maintain a wiki, and teach and drive communications.
And further downthread, Kris says (again, my translation and emphasis):
This is all definitely feasible, after all there’s remote-first companies of substantial
size and they work.They must have built themselves somehow, they didn’t get to where they are by
pure chance.
I agree with all of that (obviously), but things are complicated. So let’s drill into this a bit.
iPXE is the leading open source network boot firmware. It provides a full PXE implementation enhanced with additional features such as:
- boot from a web server via HTTP
- boot from an iSCSI SAN
- boot from a Fibre Channel SAN via FCoE
- boot from an AoE SAN
- boot from a wireless network
- boot from a wide-area network
- boot from an Infiniband network
- control the boot process with a script
You can use iPXE to replace the existing PXE ROM on your network card, or you can chainload into iPXE to obtain the features of iPXE without the hassle of reflashing.
iPXE is free, open-source software licensed under the GNU GPL (with some portions under GPL-compatible licences), and is included in products from several network card manufacturers and OEMs.
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Klaus Seibel (* 1959) ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller mit den Schwerpunkten Science-Fiction und Thriller.
Seibel studierte Theologie und arbeitete als Pastor. Später war er Manager in einem Softwarehaus. Seit 2014 ist er hauptberuflich Schriftsteller. 2009 erhielt er den Krimipreis der Frankfurter Neuen Presse. Nach zwei Buchveröffentlichungen bei Verlagen konzentriert er sich auf Veröffentlichungen als Selbstpublikation. Die meisten Bücher sind als Book-on-demand auch in gedruckter Form erhältlich.
Die Bombe ist ein Rätsel- und Kommunikationsspiel für Gruppen. Nebenbei lernt man auch ein bisschen was zum Thema Amateurfunk, Elektrotechnik, Digitaltechnik und Informatik. Ziel des Spiels ist es eine tickende Bombe fachgerecht zu entschärfen. Das gelingt nur, wenn alle zusammenarbeiten und sich gegenseitig helfen, um die verschiedenen Rätsel zu lösen.
Arbeitskreis Amateurfunk und Telekommunikation in der Schule e.V.
100% Kompatibilität für über 300 Maschinen in der 18-Volt-Klasse!
Da passt alles zu allem: Jetzt kannst Du Maschinen, Akkupacks und Ladegeräte unterschiedlichster Hersteller problemlos miteinander kombinieren
Mit den Teifoc Steinbaukasten Sets werden Miniatur Häuser, Burgen und sonstige Gebäude gebaut. Dabei werden Mini Ziegelsteine wie auf einer echten Baustelle mit vermauert. Um den Mörtel auf die Backsteine zu bringen, ist die meist beiliegende Mörtelkelle im Kleinformat sehr hilfreich. Stein auf Stein und immer schön dem Bauplan folgend, werden die Wände der Villa hochgezogen, Türen und Fenster eingebaut. Schlussendlich das Dach und Dachziegel aufgesetzt und schon kann die schöne neue Spielwelt bezogen werden. Die Teifoc Steinbaukasten Sets richten sich an Kinder ab 6 Jahren, werden aber auch als Bausatz oder einzelne Teile von Modellbau-Fans verwendet.
Bei diesem Motorrad Hallentraining – kreiert von Roland Resch – hast du die Möglichkeit, deine Fahrtechnik zu verbessern, mit Gleichgesinnten Spaß zu haben oder dich vor der neuen Motorradsaison zu “entrosten“. In dem 3 stündigen Training fokussieren wir uns auf zwei Kernpunkte:
Erstens: richtige Bewegungsabläufe
und zweitens: Druckspitzen zu vermeiden
Diese zwei Themen sind die Basis des Motorradfahrens und sollen euch helfen auf Probleme auf der Straße und der Rennstrecke automatisch reagieren zu können.