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Better Windows dual-boot with systemd-boot

Better Windows dual-boot with systemd-boot

If you are dual-booting Linux and Windows, but rebooting into Grub and selecting Windows manually is too much effort, then this article is for you.

Don't "nitpick:" in pull requests

Have you ever told your spouse: “Hey, I like how you look! Just a nitpick, your wrinkles really show today. It’s not a problem for me though.”? Most likely not. And if you had, your spouse would have probably replied: “Well ok, if it’s not a problem, then why did you tell?”. Similarly, insulting someone and adding “no offense” doesn’t make it less of an offense. What “nitpick” and “no offense” both have in common is shifting the responsibility from the speaker to the listener. The listener had no voice in the decision to speak these words. Only the speaker had. And he chose to speak them even though he could have not.

Postgres Backup on Kubernetes and Truenas

Postgres Backup on Kubernetes and Truenas

As TrueCharts is moving to a breaking change (New Breaking Common Release) which requires recreating Postgres databases for charts, I figured it’s a good time to share my backup script. I’ve been running the script for several months and have already restored dumps from it multiple times.

A modular monolith architecture

A modular monolith architecture

The recent announcement of Spring Monolith (Introducing Spring Modulith) fits well into the rising interest in monolithic architectures (Monolithic Architecture Trend). It seems like not everything has to become its own microservice.

From Jasper2 to Kaschber

From Jasper2 to Kaschber

TL;DR: Dark mode with Kaschber

Your interface is not an abstraction

Your interface is not an abstraction

Interfaces are great. You can write a library, bind your code internally to interfaces and handout the library to consumers which in turn just implement the interfaces. You, as a library implementer, are none the wiser about any implementers. All you know is your code and your interface. Neat!

Use Netmaker to proxy traffic from your VPS to your home network

Use Netmaker to proxy traffic from your VPS to your home network

This is a somewhat short part 2 of Use HAProxy and WireGuard to proxy traffic from your VPS to your home network.

Use HAProxy and WireGuard to proxy traffic from your VPS to your home network

Use HAProxy and WireGuard to proxy traffic from your VPS to your home network

Having a server at home (will call this “NAS”) is neat. You can play around with hardware and software. You do not have to worry about privacy and have to worry a lot about backups, redundancy and data loss. You can run your own cloud (or rather Nextcloud) on your own server. However, opening your firewall on your router as well as announcing your private IP address on the internet is not optimal. Having a slim VPS as well, wouldn’t it be great to point all traffic to your VPS and then tunnel some of the traffic to your home network? This way you’d only have to open the port for the tunnel and there’s no need anymore to announce your private IP via a DNS.