Feels weird or great or stupid or pretty smart or whatever to be wrong. Just when I wrote that previous blog post : https://blog.chmouel.com/2021/11/14/for-the-love-of-centered-windows/ that I realize that shelll script doesn’t work great on wayland. I didn’t really understood how Wayland works and just assumed that my tiny scripts just works. But experiencing not working on a native Wayland application and understanding how wayland works: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html it obviously needed a better way to do that if I have to keep up with the modern world of a linux desktop....

Sometime over a 2020 confinement my work decided to give us some money to buy some work from home office items. I didn’t need much at that time since I was already settled with everything I needed in a work from home office but decided to go for a fancy new screen since well why not and the other one (a standard 24" display) could find some good use for my teenage gamer son....

One of the early goal of Pipelines as Codeon Tekton is to make sure we were able to have the project CI running with itself. The common user case of validating pull request was quickly implemented and you can find more information about it in this walkthough video : For slightly more advanced use case here is how we made a release pipeline for the project. The goal is when we tag a release and push the tags to the GitHUB repo it will...

There is one thing that can get your wind up when you try to iterate quickly in a PR is to have a slow CI. While working on a go project with a comprehensive test suite it was usually taking over 20 to 30 minutes to run and being as patient as a kid waiting for her candy floss to be ready I am eagerly waiting that my pipeline is Green or not....

Took me a little bit a while to figure out so here is some documentation, My router from my ISP which is generally pretty good, doesn’t support local dns names which is annoying in itself. Combined with NextDNS, I have no way to identify the devices on my network. So there I went configured dnsmasq on my tiny raspbery-pi : port=5353 no-resolv interface=eth0 except-interface=lo listen-address=::1,192.168.0.3 no-dhcp-interface= bind-interfaces cache-size=10000 local-ttl=2 log-async log-queries bogus-priv server=192....

I write a lot of scripts to automate my day to day workflow, some of them I just wrote for 3h to save me 5mn only once and some others I write for about 5mn but save me hours of boreness and repetitive task. The script showed today, that I am proud of because of its usefulness and probably not of its code, is called “batzconverter” available on https://github.com/chmouel/batzconverter. What the script is trying to solve is when you work with your team spread around 3/4 timezones, how do you schedule a meeting easily....

I have been trying to build some packages for the ubuntu distros for a new program I have released, gnome-next-meeting-applet In short, it what quite painful! if you are quite new to the launchpad and debian packaging ways (which I wasn’t and yet It took me some time to figure out) you can get quite lost. I got to say that the fedora copr experience is much smoother. After a couple of frustrated google and stackoverflow searches and multiple tries I finally figured out a script that builds and upload properly to launchpad via docker to make it available to my users....

Don’t you love “yaml”, yes you do ! or at least that’s what the industry told you to love! When you were in school your teacher told you about “XML” and how it will solve all the industry problems (and there was many in the late 90s). But you learned that you hate reaching to your "<" and" ">" keys and rather have something else. So then the industry came up with “json” so computer or yourself can talk to each others, that’s nice for computers but actually not so nice for yourself it was actually a lie and was not made for yourself to read and write but only for comptures....

Part of my new job working with Fabric8 is to having it deployed via minishift. Everything is nice and working (try it it’s awesome https://fabric8.io/guide/getStarted/gofabric8.html) as long you deploy it on your local workstation. The thing is that my desktop macosx laptop has only 8GB of RAM and is not very well up to the task to get all the services being deployed when I have my web browser and other stuff hogging the memory....

By default when you install an OpenShift install it would automatically generate its own certificates. It uses those certificates for communication between nodes and as well to automatically auth the admin account. By default those same certificates are the one provided for the OpenShift console and API. Since it is auto generated you will when connecting to the website with you webbrowser get an ugly error message : and as the error message says that’s not very secure #sadpanda....