Category: IT Stuff

  • Netflix Sucks with OSS

    I’ve been using Linux as my main OS on all my machines ever since before the pandemic and I’ve managed to resolve most of the issues or the community may have created solutions to do things I could easily do on Windows such as gaming (i.e. Wine). Now though, since Netflix has earned some points…

  • Week Update

    I’ve been gone for a week since, I was quite busy with programming. It’s really different when I like the task assigned to me 😂. Anyways, as I said, I’ve been busy with a programming task wherein I needed to parse an XML structure with Parent -> Child relationships so it was quite interesting. Anyways,…

  • Talos – Etcd Shenanigans

    Finally found the time to look at my Talos clusters and found that one of my Talos nodes didn’t seem to apply a patch regarding an old service removal correctly. Didn’t really bother too much with pinpointing why and just did a reset and reapply of the node’s backed up machine config but for some…

  • Linux v6.6.X

    Linux just released a bug-fix release but, due to the inauspicious numerology, I just cherry-picked the fix into my kernel and recompiled it as v6.6.5. Mock me if you want but I’m not putting THAT sequence of numbers anywhere near my machines! 🤣

  • Cake

    One of my tasks this sprint was to study and demo the Cake build tool for C#. At first I was a bit miffed by it since I saw it as redundant for the project but after a while it sort-of grew on me. I enjoyed coding build scripts using C# which is my first…