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2024 Tech recap
This year was a busy year with bigger long running projects, which take quite a toll but are in the end very rewarding. In a small list the following activities are the most notable:
Technical adoption
Last week I gave a presentation about technical adoption, to paraphrase it differently, how do you get your peers or coworkers to adopt a solution that you designed and get them to be interested and maybe even more important, to work with it. This is a problem that a lot of techs will face once…
I contributed a blog to AlmaLinux.org
Migrating from CentOS 7 can be a daunting task for businesses. In this blog post, we’ll discuss how ELevate helped us future-proof our systems by streamlining the migration process. When benny Vasquez asked if I’d want to write a blog about our usage of ELevate, I started almost immediately and gladly took the opportunity! Within…
My homelab infrastructure
Something very easily overlooked is what my homelab looks like, as it mostly just works! It is a well thought out combination of fit for purpose hardware, without becoming “work”, so while I do have a preference for specific hardware, I still have the freedom to build it differently than I would do at my…
My first appearance in a podcast
Last December I was invited by Niels Raijer from Fusix Networks to join their Fusix Podcast, last year I’ve been working closely with Fusix as there were some big Networking projects on the roadmap, which is a really nice experience. Of course I gladly accepted the invite and couldn’t wait to make my first appearance…
2023 Tech recap
It’s becoming a tradition now I guess :-), another small list of projects I worked on the past year.
The interesting future of Hypervisors
In the landscape of hypervisors there are a couple of big names that always come up when engineers are talking about virtualisation, a couple can be, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, you name them. The reason for that is that they’ve been around for so long that most people have seen or touched it at some point…
Running a LANCOM vRouter on Proxmox/KVM
Today I struggled for some time to get a LANCOM vRouter appliance to work on Proxmox, in the end I got there but the provided instructions weren’t working. Hence I write this small post to help that small group of people out there that might at some point come across the need to do the…
The importance of intent(ion)
For some time the AI-based development has been going on now, and I’ve been watching closely how and what it changed as of today, by no means I am a AI expert however. At first I was a bit sceptical, while AI can definitely help in our day-to-day life, it can also quite quickly create…
Dealing with the rapid innovations in IT
In my experience there hasn’t been a month with a lot of changes, this experience can get more intense as you grow in your role and at some point become overwhelming. Well, it can be, it doesn’t have to be, to deal with this myself I try to make -well weighted- choices to be good…
2022 Tech recap
A small list of projects I worked on the past year, these are the most interesting ones.
Networking and cloud-init
Sometimes cloud providers or maybe in your own infrastructure you might find the need to have your default gateway outside of your subnet, for example this is sometimes done by Hetzner and Myloc. The problem with cloud-init is that it doesn’t like it when your gateway is outside your subnet, well, it works with for…
Offsite backups
I use a NAS to host my own files, using a RAID and snapshots, productivity is somewhat ensured, however, immutable backups is also one of my needs, what if ransomware happens or my house burns down? For that I use Backblaze B2, directly from my QNAP with HBS3, but also trough rclone inside a VM,…
Automating your central heating
For some time I was looking for a solution to make my boiler “smart” without modifying the thermostat to support OpenTherm. While browsing the interwebz on a lazy Sunday I stumbled upon the EMS-ESP32 project, which fit my needs perfectly, as it hooks into the EMS bus and talks with the thermostat in the propietary…