There is so much fun stuff you can do with Home Assistant. I like the fact that you can build a personal dashboard to monitor all sorts of things. So why not track fuel prices in your region?
Read the article Home Assistant: track your favourite fuel stations
Let’s use some simple YAML files to define a RESTful command that automatically triggers when one of the Zonneplan sensors change. Simple and effective.
Read the article Home Assistant: sending Zonneplan One stats to PVOutput
Embedding FinOps into our Wehkamp Retail Group development culture has led to substantial cost savings and more cost awareness. While we keep running a scalable and stable platform. All to give our customers a pleasant and smooth journey when shopping in our webshops.
Read the article Wehkamp TechHub Journey towards cost optimization on AWS
Let’s setup commit verification using GPG on Windows. This will prompt us to sign the commit. I will be using a passphrase instead of signing the commits with my SSH token. This gives an extra layer of security to the setup.
Read the article Setup GPG signing for git commits on Windows
Here I’ll store my notes on WSL tuning. I mainly use WSL to do Dev Containers, so I need it to run as smooth as possible. My main problems include: memory and disk size. Let’s see what we can do to address the problem.
Read the article Notes on WSL Tuning
A living collection of Windows 11 tweaks, PowerShell 7 commands, development tools, WSL 2 and Rancher Desktop setup.
Read the article Notes on Windows 11
Currently I’m working on a small WordPress plugin that does syntax highlighting. I have the need to ship some maintenance scripts with my Dev Containers. I want some aliases to interact with the scripts (instead of calling them through /scripts/actions.sh. This solution uses a Bash startup file and a custom Dockerfile.
Read the article Shipping user friendly bash scripts with your Dev Container
When you host a WordPress website, you might need to have FTP access. If you do FTP, why not SFTP (which uses SSH to do a secure transfer)? It is fully supported by FileZilla. Let’s create a script that does the setup of the new SFTP user. As we’re using WordOps, we’ll grand the new user rights on our /var/www directory.
Read the article Create new SFTP user in Ubuntu Server for WordOps
Let’s build a bash script that is able to obtain a refresh OAuth token for a 3LO Atlassian app to be able to make offline API requests.
Read the article Obtain an Atlassian Cloud 3LO refresh token with Bash
We 🧡 the combination of Grafana, Hubot & Slack. We use it all the time to visualize dashboards in Slack. But the interaction with certain dashboards might not be as fast as one expect from a chat bot, so let’s see what we can do.
Read the article Improving responsiveness of hubot-grafana