One repository, one Dockhand, four machines. Megatron is still the odd one out. I did not plan any of this. It happened the way most homelab things happen: I ran one container, then five, then I could not remember which host was running what. True story. Many homelabers can validate its true. The first improvement was …

The Hermes profiles I manage directly, reading from the same private skills repository. I have several Hermes profiles, and some of them need the same skills. Until now, that meant keeping similar copies in different profile directories. Fixing one did not fix the others, and it was easy to lose track of which version …

It is more than certain that the world has already enough APIs and web pages where you can check daily the progress of your country in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths and other statistics. So this post is not about my API (even though is up there, and I am planning to keep it online, and you are more than welcome to …

I guess it is one of these moments that you need to clean up your room (or maybe the whole house), it's not super messy, but it is messy enough to make you keep thinking about it. So one day (or night) you make the call, that's it, I need to clean up. This is how I felt about my personal gitlab account. I won't deny …

It's been years that I have moved over to Gitlab for my personal projects. I still use Github at work and lately I am being intrigued by Github Actions (which kind of came late to the party, but then again it's a really nice feature, much needed). So while on Gitlab, I was wondering what is there for me (free account) …

I keep spending some of my free time playing around with Slack and specifically Slack bots. More to come on future posts but for now I can tell that I am amazed by the quality of the Slack Java SDK called Bolt. In this post I want to share a very simple Gitlab-CI pipeline that I use for building and deploying my toy …

For many years now I have been using artifactlistener to get updates on my mailbox on new releases or libraries and project that I use at work or on personal projects. It is a very decent service, and I still use it. These were times that things like dependabot were still not a thing :) + I was mostly interested on the …

I have been working on a small personal project during these days (a silly slack bot). Usually I try to mix and match technologies that I am using at work, with stuff that I really enjoy, and I have a very strong opinion. So I get to improve on stuff that I don't necessarily enjoy using day to day :P with stuff that I …

In the past 2,5 years while working for Ticketmaster in London, I had the chance to use extensively (still do) Fastly, one of the best CDN and Edge Compute services out there. Fastly is not just a web cache but a wholistic Edge service offering. It enables integrators (users) to actually bring their application (web …