Rootknecht's Blog

A comparison between the Onyx Boox Note Air 3 C and the Remarkable 2 reveals that both are highly capable E-ink note-taking devices, but they also differ in various aspects..

I bought a 2019 (not so dumb) feature phone in the year 2024. Here is why I did so and if it could replace my Apple iPhone 15 Pro.

How to create an Azure PostgreSQL instance without public access and passwords using Terraform while ensuring security. Additionally, I will explain how to access this database from a container app using access tokens.

In this blog post, I want to illustrate technical and “organizational” strategies to prevent you from accidentally deleting your $HOME (guess who has achieved this medal 🙈).

Nginx is a popular Web-server/-proxy that is often used to serve frontend applications within a Docker container. But did you know that you can also implement some (business) logic with Nginx? Here is how!

I have been working with Kubernetes as a container orchestration tool for years. Although I think Kubernetes is a great tool if it solves the issues it was meant to solve it also comes with, at least one 😀, issue - Kubernetes is a complex tool to operate and to work with. In this post, I describe my first steps to get in touch with Nomad by HashiCorp, which promises to be less complex than Kubernetes.

In this blog post, I want to describe a workaround how to get downloaded binaries to work on NixOS.

My first experiment with NixOS was likely in October 2021 😄. Since then, I tried to get used to NixOS and/or Nix as a package manager alternative several times but with little success. In this post I want to illustrate how I finally found a purpose for NixOS and also how this allowed me to dodge its steep learning curve!

As you probably know, I am a big fan of the plain text file format. Whenever there is the possibility of a solution based upon plain text files, I’ll (likely) take it. In this post, I will explain how I follow this principle with my personal accounting workflow.

Recently, I stumbled over Hurl which is an exciting tool in my opinion. To play around with it, I created a sort of integration test for this homepage utilizing Hugo, Docker, GitHub actions, and Hurl.