Personal

Since I spend more than 8 hours here most days I created a nice setup for myself. Thankfully I have a whole room just for my home office, so I take full advantage of that.

Besides my main desk I have a secondary desk, a couch, a couple of sideboards, a wall mounted whiteboard and a couple of shelves to display all the techy and nerdy things.

Main desk

My main desk is a custom build based on a FlexiSpot height adjustable electric frame. The tabletop is a 180x80x2.5cm pressed wood panel in a dark gray concrete look.

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These days I enjoy hiking quite a lot. To make it easier to just “pick up the pack and go” I created two basic packs that are optimized for my needs and the environment I’m usually hiking in, the Swabian Alps.

Basics

I have some basics I duplicated and carry in both my packs, these are:

• Pen & paper
• Multitool
• Mini first aid kit in a ziploc bag
  • Paracetamol
  • Band aids
  • Gel sanitizer
• Foam pad
• Waterproof poncho
• A bit of cash, usually around 20-30€ these days
• A piece of paper with my and my emergency contacts information
• Fisherman’s Friend for a fresh feeling and honestly because my parents had them when we were hiking

Prepared packs

Small pack

I’m currently using a Terra Peak Flex 20l in red for my smaller backpack. It’s a nice size for shorter hikes and fits me well.

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This is a list of interesting blog posts, talks and such things that I found over the years.

Some of them may teach you something relevant, some may just further your general understanding of tech. From personal experience they can lead you down the rabbit hole really fast, enjoy with care!

Talks

• Why web tech is like this by Steve Sanderson
• Learning from Disaster by Ian Hughes
• Failure is Always an Option by Dylan Beattie
• Architecture: The Stuff That’s Hard to Change by Dylan Beattie
• Computational Creativity by Dylan Beattie
• How I built Rockstar: Parsing esoteric languages with .NET by Dylan Beattie
• Fractals, Factories and Fast Food by Dylan Beattie
• The cost of code by Dylan Beattie
• The Art of Code by Dylan Beattie
• The Web That Never Was by Dylan Beattie
• The (Fictional) Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords by Tom Scott
• The Basics (Playlist) by Tom Scott

Blog posts

• How to make static site publishing easier by Luke Harris
• Django Views - The Right Way by Luke Plant
• The yaml document from hell by Ruud van Asseldonk
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster by Adam Drake
• A failed attempt at monetizing technical writing by Luc van Donkersgoed
• SRE: A Day In The Life, Over The Years by By Anthony Sandoval of Reddit Engineering
• You Broke Reddit: The Pi-Day Outage by Jayme Howard of Reddit Engineering
• Kubernetes Deployment Antipatterns – part 1 by Kostis Kapelonis
• How to Model Your Gitops Environments and Promote Releases between Them by Kostis Kapelonis
• Programming Sucks by Peter Welch
• Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition by Nick Craver

Guides & Books

• Django Views - The Right Way by Luke Plant

Other things

• Development Standards by Luke Plant
• The Password Game by Neal Agarwal
• The case of the 500-mile email by Trey Harris

This is my checklist for publishing a new post on my blog:

Preparation

• Finalize the posts name and sluggify it
• Pick a image if fitting
• Create a new post with hugo new content/posts/<slug of post>.md
• Move the draft from my current writing tool to this new file
• Fill in the generated front matter template
• If the post is ~1.000+ words enable the TOC
• Run spell-check in VSCode and fix things

Proofing

• Run local hugo server hugo server -bind=0.0.0.0
• Wait at least an hour
• Open the locally served page on the iPad, grab a cup of tea and read it
• Make last changes and typo fixes as needed
• Place a `

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Starting on the first of March 2022 I no longer work full-time in my day job.

That sentence has been about a year in the making and makes me both happy and a bit scared about the future.

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As part of my goal to write a book I began looking at how to build a following and where to sell the book once it’s finished.

On this journey I found Gumroad, a great place to sell digital products.

Given my idea to sell a comprehensive library of code snippets besides the actual book I took a look at existing integrations between it and GitLab.com, my preferred git host.

Unfortunately I could not find any ready made solution, but given the great APIs from Gumroad and GitLab I set out to build one. The result is GumLab, a easy way to sell access to GiLab projects through Gumroad.

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The year is coming to an end, with all its ups and downs 2020 surely was challenging to say the least. I wanted to take this time to openly reflect on my first couple months of blogging and what the future holds for ps1.guru

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Lets talk about affiliate links for a moment.

TLDR: I will use affiliate links where it is possible for me, which isn’t often to be honest.

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