Rootknecht's Blog

In this post I want to describe my experience with macOS and especially “the bad” and “the ugly” topics from last year’s post.

Due to recent written warnings because of including Google fonts I wrote a little python script that checks the resources, like fonts, a webpage loads.

I have to handle multiple git configurations for my clients and for my different repositories. Here is how I handle them!

My workflow for reading and storing articles from the web with reMarkable2 and Obsidian.

Recently, I had to check the connectivity to a Redis 6 TLS enabled and password protected instance. In this post, I want to give you an overview of the different approaches to verify if a Redis is up and reachable.

In my daily business I have to deal with a lot of YAML files. In my opinion, it is best practice to write --- (three dashes) at the beginning of a YAML file. This post describes how to utilize Git pre-commit hooks to automatically insert --- at the beginning of your YAML files before committing them.

Imagine you require a simple reverse proxy for one of your servers but you don’t have the permission to install Nginx, Apache etc. Or you really just need a simple proxy and don’t want to mess around with proxy configuration. In this post we will have a look for an comparatively new proxy called Caddy which is a perfect match for this scenario.

What is so special about a single binary with Go you might ask? That is nothing special and a major feature of Go out of the box. Things change when you want to bundle template files and static assets for your Gin-Gonic web application in one binary. In this post I’ll explain how I built a single binary web application with HTML templates, CSS, JS and more included.

In this post I want to briefly describe how to build Docker images for both platforms at the example of a Docker image for troubleshooting purposes especially within a Kubernetes cluster.

I am (still) a big fan of RSS feeds, and I have built a neat collection of feeds on my self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS. However, not all interesting blogs do offer an RSS feed. In this post, I will show you how I generate my own RSS feed from those blogs via Huginn.