Linux

Openshift (and Kubernetes) allow you to run jobs on schedule, but these jobs can fail from time to time. You can monitor them from bash!

Monitor the power consumption of your CyberPower UPS and display the live output in your Linux desktop’s status bar.

Lower your CPU usage and increase battery life when you watch certain videos by using Chromium with VAAPI support.

All of your GNOME and gtk applications are configured in i3 with a few simple tricks.

Monit is a tried-and-true monitoring daemon that is easy to deploy. Add it to OpenShift to make monitoring even easier.

Many cloud providers give you lots of memory with each instance and you can speed up tests and builds by using a ramdisk.

Buildah and podman work well with the vfs storage driver, but the default mount options can cause problems.

Fedora 30 is a great Linux distribution for cloud platforms, but it needs a little work to perform well on Google Compute Engine.

As I make the move from the world of GNOME to i3, I found myself digging deeper into the terminator preferences to make it work more like gnome-terminal.

Libvirt is a handy way to manage containers and virtual machines on various systems. On most distributions, you can only access the libvirt daemon via the root user by default. I’d rather use a regular non-root user to access libvirt and limit that access via groups.

There are some situations where you want to do the opposite of creating a wireless hotspot and you want to share a wireless connection to an ethernet connection. For example, if you’re at a hotel that offers only WiFi internet access, you could share that connection to an ethernet switch and plug in more devices. Also, you could get online with your wireless connection and create a small NAT network to test a network device without mangling your home network.