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Dagger pipelines and OpenTelemetry environment

Recently I tried to generate tracing data out of the pipeline for zerokspot.com and feed that into an external collector. Doing that with the ci/main.go itself was easy: Just set the relevant environment variables, integrate the OpenTelemetr...

Five cents on Ivory

Ever since Twitter went down the sewer I thought what Id do about Tweetbot. It was actually the only way I could imagine myself using the platform for a long time and once Twitter banned all third-party apps I decided to keep paying for it u...

Testing Promtail pipelines

If you want to get data into Grafana Loki then Promtail probably the easiest way to do so. In my case, I wanted to forward Caddys access logs to Loki. There are some fields, though, that I dont want to send over to Loki, like a users IP or p...

Maintainable CI pipelines with Dagger

The CI pipeline for a blog such as zerokspot.com should be quite simple. Run Hugo and push the result onto a server via rsync. Over the years, though, the site has gained a lot of functionality that is (or at least was not possible at the ti...

Preparing for FOSDEM 2023

This year its finally again time for an in-person FOSDEM in Brussels! The 2-day event is going to take place on Feb 4 and Feb 5 at the ULB Solbosch campus and hopefully tons of people will be there again! Sadly, my own travel party will be m...

Matrix.org requires funding

In the recent Holiday Update post on the Matrix.org blog Matthew Hodgson gave a great overview of what the foundation had achieved in 2022. Tons of work on the “Faster joins” and “Sliding Sync” features promise a lot of usability imp...

My Techo Kaigi for 2023

In a recent post Kimberly from ThePenAddict introduced the term “Techo Kaigi” to me. Its basically a meeting with yourself in which you look back at your current planner setup in order to decide what youll keep and change about it for th...

Review: Observability Engineering

A couple of days ago I decided to give OReillys subscription offering a try. While I eventually decided not to extend the trial period into a whole year, I wanted to make the best out of those 10 days and read “Observability Engineering”...

Pen and ink page

Like of https://stationery.pizza/added-a-new-pen-and-ink-page Eivind Hjertnes has now a page on Stationery.Pizza where he lists all the pens and inks he’s currently using. I’ve wanted to do something similar for a really long time...