Fresh/Brewed

Goodbye West

As they now demolish the massive Tomson Reuters, formerly Tomson West, formerly West Group headquarters in Eagan, I found this photo of a meeting in 2017 I got to take in the special conference room originally built for the owner/founder and not often used. Behind the panneled wall on the right was a small kitchen. If you stretch your browser window, you can see the flags on the left. Now look at this recent photo of the destruction and you can see the same flags
Redis Forks

Redis Forks

Published Apr 9, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Oh, Redis, how times have changed. Once the darling of the Open-Source community, they made waves on March 20th this year when Rowan Trollop, the CEO of Redis (co), said that future versions of Re...

Useful OS Apps: Siyuan and Heimdall

Useful OS Apps: Siyuan and Heimdall

Published Apr 4, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll check out a couple interesting Open-Source containerized apps. Siyuan is a small interactive Notebooking app. I see it as a rich collaboration space akin to Google Wave or Jupyter. A...

Raven: CICD Scanning for Github

Raven: CICD Scanning for Github

Published Apr 2, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Raven (Risk Analysis and Vulnerability Enumeration for CI/CD) is a solution for scanning Github repos for vulnerabilities. It can scan a repo, an org or all of a user’s Github repos then store the...

Github Actions, Gitea, Forgejo, AzDO Runners

Github Actions, Gitea, Forgejo, AzDO Runners

Published Mar 28, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

With a new cluster comes the need to create a new Github action runner controller. The new method is using an “ARC” setup that can scale to 0.

OS Tools: DarkTable, Pomo Apps

OS Tools: DarkTable, Pomo Apps

Published Mar 26, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Darktable is like a cozy digital workshop where photographers can fine-tune their images with care. Think of it as an open-source Photoshop for those who appreciate the artistry of pixels.

A lesson in failure: Upgrade to Cluster Rebuild

A lesson in failure: Upgrade to Cluster Rebuild

Published Mar 21, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

This is a different kind of Blog post. I started it one day realizing my cluster was simply falling down on resolving DNS to Github. All queries to api.github.com were going to nowhere.

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