Fresh/Brewed

OpenAPI (Swagger) Generator

Generate all the things

Around five years ago, for OSN 2021, I gave a talk on Full Stack CICD of Kubernetes Microservices using DevOps and IAC. I was discussing some of our setup we used at Medtronic for the CRHF group and specifically I spoke on using Swagger gen for .NET and Java client bindings. Recently, I was made aware of a refresh of that Swagger gen project called OpenAPITools/OpenApi-Generator. It is a java app so you can easily pull it down and run it with anything newer than JDK 11. However, I had adding Java to anything (not because I have a hatred of Java, just it’s a lot of bloat just to run a tool).

Getting started with FleetDM

Could this replace Ansible?

I was recently chatting with some colleagues about deployment tooling and FleetDM came up. I felt like I was aware of most deployment tools but this was new to me. Logos are how companies show brands that use their products and of whom they are proud to share. So it is a severe negative to me they show Flock amongst their scrolling list. But let’s still consider them as they are Open Source and easy to deploy

Gitea ist Kaput

Well that kind of sucks. Let's fix it

Gitea went kaput. Just up and stopped working one day. I came back from the BWCA and noticed none of my automated builds had succeeded: The errors were all about “back pack header” I tried many things - restarting Kubernetes, docker, upgrading the container image. All the things that usually ‘unstuck’ a Gitea instance just weren’t. Any local pull or clone would fail builder@DESKTOP-QADGF36:~/Workspaces/fbsnew$ git pull fatal: protocol error: bad pack header It wasn’t disk space

Browser Use

Agentic web crawlers for fun and profit

I had a bookmark (not sure where I saw it) for Browser Use. It’s a geared for agentic work, of course, but the idea is ephemeral and scheduled web browser related flows that are easy to script with NodeJS or python. It has a free tier so there is no reason not to give it a go and see what it can do. Setup We can signup here with username/password or a federated IdP. I’ll do the latter with google

Creating and using AI Skills

this can save you money

I’ve had AI Skills on the mind lately and realized I had neglected updating a few of my own and it was high time to handle that. In this article we’ll cover installing and using some common public skills, like Anthropic’s skills and specifically their “skill creator” skill. We’ll use that in Google Antigravity and Copilot to cleanup an older Python App skill I have. We’ll then test using the Python App skill in Cline, a local CLI Harness with a 12b gemma4 model running in Ollama on a laptop with a 12Gb 3070 card in it.