How to get notifications from release-monitoring.org

Mar 14, 2021 I maintain a Copr for Emacs pretest builds. I wanted to have a mechanism to get notified when a new pretest release is available. That way I can keep the pretest RPMs on Copr up-to-date. In this post, I will be talking about the Anitya project, which is hosted at release-monitoring.org and how to get an email notification, when a new release of an upstream project is available. What is release-monitoring.

Hosting fonts locally on the website

Feb 26, 2021 Privacy matters, and everyone should care about it. I wanted to get rid of the few things from my website which don’t respect user’s privacy, which try to track users. I didn’t want to get in a trap of all or nothing, and just wanted to start making the changes. So, I decided to tackle an easy problem first. That is to stop using fonts.google.com and host the fonts local to the website server (self-host).

How to setup Emacs LSP Mode for Go

Jan 30, 2021 I use GNU Emacs as my editor, and I use it to write Go code as well. In this blog post I will be talking about basic setup of LSP Mode and gopls to work with Go code. What is LSP Mode Before we get to that, What is LSP? The Language Server Protocol (LSP) defines the protocol used between an editor or IDE and a language server that provides language features like auto complete, go to definition, find all references etc.

Learning Dvorak keyboard layout

Dec 12, 2020 I have been using Dvorak keyboard layout since the last 4 months now. In this post I will be covering things like why I switched to it, what issues I faced while learning it and more. Why I switched to Dvorak I learned touch typing during dgplug summer training 2017. I was able to type all the characters and basic punctuation marks. I did not cover the number line at that time.

EmacsConf 2020

Dec 12, 2020 EmacsConf 2020 happened last to last weekend (28th & 29th November). Same as last year, the conference was online. With more people helping with organizing the conference, it was an amazing and well executed conference. EmacsConf is the conference about the joy of Emacs, Emacs Lisp, and memorizing key sequences. — From EmacsConf website. This year it was a two days conference with 37 talks in total. We had almost 1.

Using Linkerd with YugabyteDB

Dec 10, 2020 This post covers the installation of Linkerd service mesh, and covers steps to verify if traffic between YugabyteDB pods is secured with mTLS. The blog post was published at yugabyte.com on 10th December 2020. It is written in collaboration with folks from Yugabyte and Buoyant. Using Linkerd with YugabyteDB

How to use Hugo Modules

Nov 16, 2020 I use Hugo for this site. I migrated to Hugo from WordPress a year ago. Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. Hugo project has frequent releases, so I usually update the version once in a few months. This involves reading all the release notes and making any changes to the theme if required. The theme changes are required rarely though. While going through the release notes of v0.

Monitoring YugabyteDB in Kubernetes with the Prometheus Operator and Grafana

Oct 27, 2020 In this post, we will be setting up Prometheus and Grafana using the kube-prometheus-stack chart. And we will configure Prometheus to scrape YugabyteDB pods. At the end we will take a look at the YugabyteDB Grafana dashboard that can be used to visualize all the collected metrics. The blog post was published at yugabyte.com on 27th October 2020. Monitoring YugabyteDB in Kubernetes with the Prometheus Operator and Grafana

GNU Emacs pretest builds for Fedora

Jul 18, 2020 I have been following GNU Emacs development through Debbugs and Sacha Chua’s newsletter. I always felt that I should use the latest development version of Emacs, instead of sticking to stable release. That way I get to use the latest improvements and also help in testing the changes. If I find any bugs, I can report those. The motivation for building pretests I was planning to build RPM packages for Fedora from master branch.

Monitoring workstation with Prometheus

May 23, 2020 Prometheus is a monitoring system and a time series database. It can collect metrics from different places and store it as series of values over time. It uses pull based mechanism to collect the metrics. Applications can expose the metrics in a plain text format using HTTP server, which is then fetched by Prometheus. Fetching of metrics is called scraping. For other systems which don’t expose the metrics in Prometheus exposition format, we can use exporters.