📖 Interesting read: "How Buttondown's API versioning works"

buttondown.com/blog/api-ver...
#softwareengineering

DevOps learning community > The Monospace Mentor The Server Room is a DevOps learning community that focuses on boosting the skills and careers of its members.

I’ve been a system administrator since 1993 and made running Linux servers my business. If you’d like to get better at system administration, get support in my membership community!

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Basic Linux System Administration (LINSYS-1) > The Monospace Mentor Basic Linux System Administration (LINSYS-1) Boost Your System Administration Career With Expert-Led Training Want to get into DevOps/SRE? It all starts with Linux. Every cloud server, every DevOps pipeline,...

Linux tip: Use the “setgid” mode bit on shared directories: “chmod g+s /shared/project”. New files will inherit group ownership, which prevents permission chaos between users.

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On my workstation, I use the Niri window manager. What I like about it more than any other tiling WM is that you’re not limited to physical screen size. Since Niri scrolls horizontally, I can have dedicated workspaces that never run out of space.

"Tech debt manifests as engineering projects that take longer to ship than expected and quality being a problem. […] But the root problem is that the system has grown too complex and haphazard to be manageable." (Chuck Groom, The Tech Debt Playbook)

Basic Linux System Administration (LINSYS-1) > The Monospace Mentor Basic Linux System Administration (LINSYS-1) Boost Your System Administration Career With Expert-Led Training Want to get into DevOps/SRE? It all starts with Linux. Every cloud server, every DevOps pipeline,...

Never trust untested backups. With Borgmatic, use `borgmatic check --verbosity 2` for repository integrity and `borgmatic extract --dry-run` to simulate restores. Schedule monthly tests.

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#Linux #SystemAdministration

New Basic Linux System Administration post in The Server Room: "Downloadable course materials (PDF, EPUB)" community.monospacementor.com/t/378

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New Docs post in The Server Room: "Unearthing solutions via the "question" tag" community.monospacementor.com/t/377

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New General post in The Server Room: "USB-C PDU for powering your homelab" community.monospacementor.com/t/376

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New General post in The Server Room: "Misadventures in Mail Archiving, and How Bichon Saved The Day" community.monospacementor.com/t/375

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📖 Interesting read: "Building Multi-Tenant SaaS with Rails 8, Caddy, and Kamal"

mooktakim.com/blog/buildin...
#ruby

📖 Interesting read: ""Collaboration" is bullshit."

www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboratio...
#leadership #collaboration

New System Administration post in The Server Room: "The systemd age attestation controversy" community.monospacementor.com/t/374

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New Basic Linux System Administration post in The Server Room: "Coming up: two weeks to catch up" community.monospacementor.com/t/373

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dot_tmux.conf · main · Jochen Lillich / dotfiles · GitLab My collection of configuration files for zsh, tmux, i3 and many other applications.

When you live in the terminal as I do, a multiplexer like `tmux` is invaluable. It's basically a session and window manager for the shell. Here's my current tmux configuration to give you a head start:

gitlab.com/geewiz/dotfi...

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/tomekw/twins
Gemini server in Ada

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/tomekw/padlock
libtls in Ada

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📖 Interesting read: "Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion"

lwn.net/Articles/106...
#tool

📖 Interesting read: "Never use Float or Integer"

www.embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/...
#ada #softwareengineering

"When messages are trusting and ask for what the sender wants instead of telling the receiver how to behave, objects naturally evolve public interfaces that are flexible and reusable in novel and unexpected ways." (Sandi Metz, "Practical Object-Oriented Design")

New blog post: "The systemd age attestation controversy"

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📖 Interesting read: "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

batsov.com/articles/202...
#tool #genai

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dot_config/nvim · main · Jochen Lillich / dotfiles · GitLab My collection of configuration files for zsh, tmux, i3 and many other applications.

If you follow my live coding streams, you know that I use neovim as my editor. It does everything I need for system administration, coding and writing. Get a head start and use my configuration:

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⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/omerxx/tmux-...
The missing floating pane for Tmux

📖 Interesting read: "Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It's the Codebase, Not the People)"

piechowski.io/post/codebas...
#softwareengineering

Purpose > Productivity > The Monospace Mentor I am a recovering productivity addict. I read David Allen’s book “Getting Things Done” several times. I practised Inbox Zero religiously. It feels like I’ve tried all the popular to-do apps, calendaring...

Making the most of our work time is important both for our career and our own job satisfaction. But sometimes, we’re losing sight of the bigger picture over productivity methods and metrics.

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⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/alexpasmanti...
A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder.