Blog about handy tips and tricks about programming, Linux/Windows system administration and life.

Welcome to a new series of articles that will take you on a journey to generate beautiful looking dashboards using Grafana. We'll take the readings from the metrics the things in your house are already generating such as your home server, IoT devices (Nes... (more…)

The Alpine Linux distribution was born as a fork of the LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Framework) project, which itself was a fork of an extremely tiny distro, the now-defunct Linux Router Project (LRP). The concept behind Alpine was to create a light and... (more…)

This is probably more suited to be a Stack Overflow answer, but I figured the answer is so interesting, I’d write a Medium post about it. (more…)

This is write up for talk I gave at CAT BarCamp, an awesome unconference at Portland State University. The talk started with the self-imposed challenge “give an intro to containers without Docker or rkt.”...