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First post in the new sysadmin category. I’ve recently realized that I’ve never written about how I’m running my desktop setup on Linux. Triggered by having to revamp one of my Gentoo portage ebuilds for my desktop, let me remedy this and tell you a bit about what my personal computing outside the Homelab looks like. My Linux journey started back in 2007. I was about to start my computer science degree. And I had allowed myself one month between finishing the then mandatory military service and some jobs to bridge the time before University and my program starting in October. At the beginning of September, I got my first University laptop, an Acer TravelMate 5720 Core 2 Duo with an ATI GPU and Windows Vista. Receiving that laptop, I thought to myself: Any real CS student should be running Linux. ...

It was September 2014, and I needed to procrastinate a University exam. Looking for something I could mentally categorize under “useful”, I happened upon Taskwarrior, and it has been running my life ever since. In this post, I will describe what Taskwarrior is and how I’m using it, as well as my migration from Taskwarrior 2.6 and Taskd to the new Taskwarrior 3.4 and taskchampion-sync-server. In short, Taskwarrior is a command line task management system. ...

I’d like to talk about a great website I found a little while ago, exercism.org. I discovered it a while back, when I was trying to learn Elixir. That project got interrupted pretty badly by my Kubernetes migration, but I’m now back to it. I still want to learn a language a bit more suited to web development, but I’ve switched to Golang now. Mostly because, when I started looking at Elixir again, I had forgotten pretty much everything again. Plus, I also never really wrapped my head around functional programming. ...

As promised in my previous post, now onto the second category of podcasts I’m listening to: History podcasts. I love history, in all it’s periods and countries. I even went so far as taking AP history in high school and did pretty well with it. Lots of my YouTube consumption are historical channels. And so it is also for podcasts. In fact, the very first podcast I started listening to, way back in 2019, was a history podcast. ...

In the interest of expanding my writing a bit, I always wanted to write about the media I’m consuming a bit more, and I will start with a small series of posts on my favorite podcasts. To me, there are roughly three kinds of podcasts I listen to. The first one is history podcasts - just some narrator telling me interesting tidbits from history. I will write about all of those in the next post. The second kind are what I’d call “current affairs” podcasts, e.g. news, politics, Open Source/Linux talk podcasts and such. ...