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Fractional CTO running Smirnovlabs.com
Xoogler, Startup Founder, MBA.
I ended up prototyping self hosted https://woodpecker-ci.org/ on my k8s cluster. Ended up taking just a few hours of AI time (Claude Code). Woodpecker has a helm chart, can connect to Github and post status checks to commits.
Open to feedback or tips and tricks on this, but so far it's looking promising. Curious how other folks experience has been.
This is one of the reasons I picked a small, dedicated email provider [1] over Google Workspace for my corporate emails. If Google flips out and ban hammers us for no reason, my company will still be able to reach clients and work on projects. Apple, Google and Facebook are way too trigger happy with automated bans and no recourse.
This is amazing, thank you! Will digest and shoot you a DM with some questions.
I've been trying to figure out how to build up that liquidators network, and sounds like you've really nailed it!
Can you share some vendors and model names? I've been looking into upgrading my home lab from 10g to 100G, but the costs were absolutely astronomical.
I'm likely running a personal lab similar to many folks on HN - about 20-30 wired servers and a small rack of managed Unifi switches.
Appreciate you!
I'm a night owl C-suite (CTO), but with all of my peers as you describe.
It's possible to make it work, you have to be very firm on your boundaries. One option that worked for me was to explain that I can effectively do more timezone coverage despite being in the same Geo-zone.
It also helped to showcase the work I do while they are offline, so when they wake up they see a column of work that has been bounced back across to their plate.
It is definitely hard though, and takes the right crowd who respects you enough to make it work.
It's probably impossible to do this as a CEO though.
They do: https://about.gitea.com/pricing/
I have the same nightmare, so to mitigate risk I run a self hosted instance of Gitea [1] and set up nightly mirroring.
The folder with the mirrors is then uploaded to a backup provider, in my case Borgbase [2]
1. https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea 2. https://www.borgbase.com/
Try out various masks. I bought one of each mask available and tried them all, ended up with the N20.
CPAP.com is great for decent prices and direct to consumer sales.
If the internal pressure is annoying, airtight earplugs help with keeping the sinus pressure even.
The challenge that I face is Calibre absolutely craters after 20,000+ ebooks.
I understand that most folks probably have 10-300 books, but in my case I have some large libraries I tried to use with Calibre, and it just absolutely DIES.
The steadfast decision to exclusively use SQLite doesn't help. I opened a PR back in 2016 or so, but the maintainer was quite enthusiastically opposed to changing the DB layer or making it pluggable.
What sort of topologies are you attempting?
I was able to set up fiber link aggregation with triple NICs and a custom VLAN and MTU with no issues. It supports bridges and child interfaces just fine.
Can you share your details?
Congratulations on the launch!
I have been a long time customer of the enterprise version of Streamdal, and I can confidently say Daniel and Ustin are absolutely KILLER engineers. Any time we spoke I always was impressed by their super deep experience and understanding of modern challenges!
So good to see you getting some love on HN. Excited to implement this in some personal projects as well!
Thank you! Will reach out on GitHub with any questions.
This looks amazing! Do you have a sample kubernetes deployment or helm chart we could use? I'd love to deploy the metrics collector on my k3s and have all my servers stream in data.
I wrote a post about this that you should find useful:
How is this different from https://github.com/cdr/code-server ?
I’m a huge fan of my Ergodox EZ. Picked up one for home and one for work from https://ergodox-ez.com/
It runs QMK (https://docs.qmk.fm/#/) and is very customizable.
More links:
- https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/what-is-an-ergodox/ - https://people.ergodox-ez.com/ivan-smirnov/
So this is like half of: https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni
Reminds me of https://www.artsey.io/
It's unfortunately non-trivial to set up and requires a fairly large swap partition
https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/how-to-set-up-hibernate-on-ubu...
This remind me of https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik, except that's self hosted.
So it's even worse. What's up with the trend going in the wrong direction?
I wrote an article about this exact question: https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/what-can-you-do-with-a-persona...
Some new tech that hasn't made it on the list yet:
- https://github.com/issmirnov/zap - recursive URL expander, can be run at DNS level. Ie, "n/" -> "https://news.ycombinator.com/" or "f/g/homelab" -> facebook.com/groups/homelab
- netdata
- https://varnish-cache.org/intro/
- AFP/NFS/samba for file sharing
- https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web - web UI for calibre ebooks
- https://jupyter.org/ for python scripts and web scraping
- https://github.com/cdr/code-server for an IDE in a tab.
- https://www.portainer.io/ if you use docker
- https://yourls.org/ for a private URL shortener in your home
Awesome!! So the Go code intelligence is now free for single devs who are self hosting?
I do not doubt your work experience, but I would like to respectfully point out that the data I have for those ~10 engineers does indeed match to the numbers I have presented.
Either way, with $200k salary the rent mentioned in the article is doable.
Here are real numbers.
Background: Average of 10 programmers who range ages 22-25 and are 2-3 years out of college.
Base: 140k Bonus: 30k Equity: ~60k Total: $230k year pretax.
Taxes: - 33% federal bracket - 10% state bracket - 7% FICA+Medicaid. (50% total)
Brackets listed are marginal rates, actual rates are noted here: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#p9c7Y...
Let's run the math - $230k comp - $83k taxes = $147k/year - assuming no other expenses, no retirement savings and no other income, that's 147/12 = $12.2k/mo, post tax. At this point $5,500/rent is easy.
Realistically, the breakdown is more like this: $147k post tax income - $20k retirement - $18k food/drinks ($1500/mo in SF is reasonable) - $10k car payments - $10k insurance/misc = $89k/year
$89k / 12 = $7,400/mo post tax and expenses. A $5,500 rent is still doable, but again extremely stupid because you aren't saving.
UPDATE: https://lawgimenez.me/2018/08/07/g-suite-happy-ending/
Google reached out to the author and got the situation resolved.
First things first: everyone is different, so try various alternatives first. Run some experiments and see what sticks.
That being said, I strongly suggest a personal wiki. I write about Dokuwiki on my blog (https://blog.ivansmirnov.name/how-to-make-a-personal-wiki/).
Key takeaways: - Make sure the underlying storage is as simple as possible. Markdown in text files is as safe as it gets - Friction has to be close to zero, otherwise you won't use it - Put information in a deterministic location. Store any information that you might come back to, so that you don't have to repeat your research.
You hit the nail on the head. I run a personal instance of Dokuwiki, and find that this is my L1 cache for knowledge. Vim, Git, Linux... all the stuff I use the most often is there and organized in the way I find optimal.
It's also very convenient to have a reference on various devices that you own. Specs, links to manuals, common troubleshooting steps and an inbox of future work and enhancements.
If you want a cool way to manage bookmarks, check out my project zap: https://github.com/issmirnov/zap
It reads in a YAML config file and allows you to shorten URLs, with recursive expansion.
For example: https://subdomain.corp.company.com/staging --> http://s/staging, or even http://s/s
The nice thing with Zap is you don't need to click through bookmarks, and you only need to sync one file. There's also useful info in the README on how to set this up on your internal DNS server.
I'd like to see some more statistics backing this article, as well as real evidence. Who are the doctors that these people are seeing? Is the survey only finding the population of dissatisfied people?
I got PRK a year ago and have zero issues, and I've also never been sent a survey from NYT asking if I have problems. I know 11 people who got LASIK/PRK and no one has reported issues yet.
There's no way a procedure that causes issues in 50% of cases would be legal in the States.