The Pirate Bay Suffers Extended Downtime
During the past weekend many people have been unable to access The Pirate Bay and, at the time of writing, the site’s main domain remains inaccessible. For most people, the site currently displays a Cloudflare error message across the entire site, with the CDN provider mentioning that the “connection timed out.” This error suggests that there’s a problem on TPB’s end which is preventing the CDN provider...
Drop Bash for fish shell to get beautiful defaults
I am one of those people who immediately opens a terminal window after my computer boots up. It’s not out of necessity at this point, but the habit is there. I spent most of my career learning its magical incantations, and I find navigating through my daily tasks on the terminal makes for a more enjoyable day at work. That all said, it’s nice to try something new once in a while. read...
Run Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi with k3s
For a long time, I’ve been interested in building a Kubernetes cluster out of a stack of inexpensive Raspberry Pis. Following along with various tutorials on the web, I was able to get Kubernetes installed and working in a three Pi cluster. However, the RAM and CPU requirements on the master node overwhelmed my Pi. This caused poor performance when doing various Kubernetes tasks. It also made an in-place upgrade of...
13 reads to save for later: An open organization roundup
The open organization community is spoiling us. For months, writers have been showering us with multiple, ongoing series of articles, all focused on different dimensions of open organizational theory and practice. That’s led to to a real embarrassment of riches—so many great pieces, so little time to catch them all. So let’s take moment to reflect. If you missed one (or several) now’s your chance to catch up....
Getting started with Emacs
Many people say they want to learn Emacs, but many of them shy away after the briefest encounter. It’s not because Emacs is bad or even that complex. The problem, I believe, is that people don’t actually want to learn Emacs; they want to be comfortable with Emacs traditions. They want to understand the arcane keyboard shortcuts and unfamiliar terminology. They want to use Emacs as they believe it’s “meant to be...
