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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
May 12, 2020
JavaScript Object Notation, often referred as JSON is a data representation format which is human readable and easy to parse for machines. Personally, I find it hard to comprehend huge JSON files. In this blog post, I will be talking about the tool called jq. It’s a CLI tool to parse and manipulate JSON objects/files.
How I started using jq In the past one year, I have been writing a lot of shell scripts (mostly for bash).
Apr 18, 2020
Due to current situation of COVID-19 pandemic, we (PythonPune) decided to have our March month’s meetup as an online event. Although we live streamed one meetup in September 2019, this time it was a complete virtual event. I always try to use Free Software as much as I can, so we use Jitsi Meet to host/stream our meetups.
Starting a meeting on Jitsi Meet jitsi-meet and few other services are developed by the Jitsi community which makes video conferencing possible.
Mar 14, 2020
Version 3 of Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes released a few months ago. This release comes with a lot of new changes and improvements. I was trying out the beta releases of v3 with cluster setup we have. I will be talking about changes in this release, how to migrate your charts and releases.
What is Helm?
Helm helps you manage Kubernetes applications — Helm Charts help you define, install, and upgrade even the most complex Kubernetes application.
Jan 2, 2020
Back in 2018 when I joined InfraCloud, I had a nice opportunity to spend my first day writing an Ansible playbook to setup my new machine. Though I knew what Ansible is and how it works, I had never tried writing a playbook.
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced IT tasks such as continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates.
Dec 19, 2019
Back in April 2019, Akshay and I were discussing about Emacs in general. He shared a link to Sacha’s blog, where we found some references, which introduced us to EmacsConf. We were happy about the fact that there is a conference about Emacs, but the last conference happened in 2015. And guess what, EmacsConf 2019 got announced in July and it was going be an online conference!
EmacsConf 2019 has issued their call for proposals!
👋 I'm Bhavin Gandhi (bhavin192).