https://eyskens.me/ Recent content on Maartje Eyskens Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:02:20 +0200 https://eyskens.me/cd-i-meets-bluetooth/ Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:02:20 +0200 https://eyskens.me/cd-i-meets-bluetooth/ Philips CD-i. Enough said for some to either bring back traumas or joyful memories. I never had a CD-i in my life but I did have a facination for it as a weird misunderstood device that existed in the past. It barely became any success except where it was made: Belgium, The Netherlands, and a tiny bit in the UK. Recently I got my hands on a CD-i 210 /00 model from a good friend on mine who repaird a few “throwaway” units into a clean and working device with a replacable clock battery. https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:00:18 +0200 https://eyskens.me/beginners-guide-to-pentabarf/ How to submit a talk to FOSDEM What is Pentabarf? Pentabarf is the official name of the FOSDEM talk submission and management system. It started out in the past as the software used to print the program booklets but has since evolved to the system that manages the whole schedule and website publishing. Why this guide? From our past experience from running the Go devroom we found that some people were unsure if they submitted a talk correctly to us, for this reason we decided to write the ultimate guide on how to use Pentabarf to submit a talk to FOSDEM (both main tracks and devrooms). https://eyskens.me/linux-phone-adventure/ Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:20:18 +0200 https://eyskens.me/linux-phone-adventure/ It’s 2019, the year of Linux on the phone! Just like 2016 was the year of Linux on the tablet! Or was that 2015? Anyhow Ubuntu gave up, but newer and better. The future looks exciting: Librem 5 and Pine64 Phone both promise us Linux on the phone. PostmarketOS tries to bring old phones back alive by putting Alpine on them. KDE claims they wil run everywhere (or so they told me at FOSDEM). https://eyskens.me/building-a-kubernetes-ingress-controller/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 21:41:50 +0100 https://eyskens.me/building-a-kubernetes-ingress-controller/ Now that writing tooling on top of Kubernetes is part of my every day job I thought it would be a good idea to dig deeper. If you know me longer than today you might have realised I love writing my own code for my clusters. So why not just dig in into some mechanics of Kubernetes? At (not the above job) Innovate we have been very happy with Nginx/OpenResty to proxy and handle radio streams. https://eyskens.me/docker-on-the-desktop/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:30:16 +0200 https://eyskens.me/docker-on-the-desktop/ note to self: change blog bio to Jess Frazelle-wannabe So I decided to give Linux on the desktop a best try. I recently installed Ubuntu with the i3 window manager on my Cr-48 and fell in love with it. Since I feel like Linux on a MacBook is a pain I start looking for a nice new laptop. It had to be powerfull, good looking and not too heavy. After I gave up looking for a rose gold laptop with something more that a celeron (really, somebody make one, I’ll order 10). https://eyskens.me/the-itframe-swarm/ Thu, 25 May 2017 20:18:56 +0200 https://eyskens.me/the-itframe-swarm/ So a year ago I wrote London can sink, we’re fine on how we made sure ITFrame would stay up all the time (*as much as possible). This setup proved itself over the year by having exelent uptime and mitigating disasters when one of the 2 datacenters had an issue. Scaling. For now all those nodes had been set up by hand (and disk images). This didn’t scale well. When the time came to update Node. https://eyskens.me/vue.js-for-php-people/ Sat, 25 Mar 2017 21:05:28 +0100 https://eyskens.me/vue.js-for-php-people/ This post is written in context of my education as a tutorial for my teammates Vue.js is a very light Javascript framework that offers the magic of the big ones (Angular, Ember, React…). Magic you say? How about: <table> <tr ng-for="person in people"> <td ng-click(delete(person))>{{person.name}}</td> <tr> </table> 5 lines that control a table with persons you can delete on one click. (note controller not included) The magic here is to just insert the JS into your HTML code. https://eyskens.me/how-many-women-actually-go-c-rust-js..../ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:33:51 +0100 https://eyskens.me/how-many-women-actually-go-c-rust-js..../ Note: there are waaaay more than 2 genders, the problem is GitHub has no field for them (keep it that way!) nor do we have tools to check them based on the name. 2nd note: I wrote this post during the process, just see it as a live blog with delay. After the results of the Go survey on how many Gophers identify as woman, the Women Who Go community (well at least me anyway) wondered how other languages are doing. https://eyskens.me/hello-hugo/ Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:22:37 +0100 https://eyskens.me/hello-hugo/ After a chat about blogging systems and static site generators in the Gophers Slack I got to know Hugo. A static site generator written in Go. While in the past I used Ghost to host my blog it only offers basic features that are also offered by (almost every) static site generator. Also my template was broken so I had the choice to fix that or give Hugo a try. Why should I keep using Ghost? https://eyskens.me/makerscene-not-only-for-the-nerds/ Thu, 15 Dec 2016 11:59:36 +0100 https://eyskens.me/makerscene-not-only-for-the-nerds/ When you and your sweetheart* both get the assignment to visit a Fablab. There is only one option left going together. That you send an Applied Computer Science student to there is obvious but a future kindergarten teacher? That is a different story. Or maybe we see it in the wrong way, many people who are into technology tend to show some interest in working with 3D printers and stuff. But what we often forget is that there is use for these tools: making individual things that are often unique or hard to get (eg. https://eyskens.me/carbon-graphite-grafana---on-a-raspberry-pi/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 19:12:28 +0100 https://eyskens.me/carbon-graphite-grafana---on-a-raspberry-pi/ This story starts in IoT class: read out 2 a light and temperature sensor and send it to a MySQL database. Piece of cake! Simple SQL select, parsing into JSON passing to Graph.js and here we go. Heh, this is fun let’s set up my OpenVPN on the Pi and a reverse proxy to make it accessible from everywhere. (why dynamic DNS if you can make it more complicated but firewall bypassing) Not even 24 hours later Léo (as a joke) suggests Grafana. https://eyskens.me/telenet-flaws-by-design/ Sat, 18 Jun 2016 14:51:33 +0100 https://eyskens.me/telenet-flaws-by-design/ “Can I have the Wi-Fi password?” “Sure, what can go wrong?”. If you have Telenet at home: A LOT. Each and every Telenet user has a unique login and an email address, the last one is probably known by already everybody. What do you need to take over their network? Just an entry point! That Wi-Fi password usually is no issue to get, you might already have it via Skype. https://eyskens.me/innovate-a-remote-story./ Tue, 03 May 2016 16:29:49 +0100 https://eyskens.me/innovate-a-remote-story./ So we tried Slack, a sentence from their first ad which is actually true. At Innovate we have a team in 3 countries in 4 locations. With in the past even more. Managing to work together when it is impossible to just walk to each other is perfectly possible these days. And Slack helps us a lot with this. The team Currently we exist of 4 people. Me, Aaron Gregory, Ethan Gates and Léo Lam. https://eyskens.me/london-can-sink-were-fine/ Sun, 01 May 2016 18:32:50 +0100 https://eyskens.me/london-can-sink-were-fine/ “redundancy” 37 matches last month ITFrame is a vital component of our our infrastructure, it is designed to be the central hub and database of Cast, Control, Apps, Player and DJ. Unfortunately last month(s) was/were not great. Despite the redundancy we had built we had one issue we could not solve. The infrastructure. ITFrame was hosted at OVH Public Cloud, which had several issues to even complete downtime since we switched to it from RunAbove (which has been closed in favor for OVH). https://eyskens.me/aquaris-m10-hd-ubuntu-edition-review/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:47:25 +0100 https://eyskens.me/aquaris-m10-hd-ubuntu-edition-review/ Warning: I am not a professional journalist. I am a huge fan of Linux (on ARM). This review may not be fully objective. Or contain all correct spelling/grammar. A few months ago when the Aquaris M10 with Ubuntu was announced I was very excited. First of all the first device with convergence, a dream of Canonical even before Microsoft told a word about “one (scaled down) Windows”. But also the first (commercial) tablet with the Linux kernel. https://eyskens.me/multiarch-docker-images/ Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:44:32 +0100 https://eyskens.me/multiarch-docker-images/ A few months ago I wrote about Docker and CoreOS on ARM. With the introduction of the C2 by Scaleway we did some changes to that infrastructure. To make it multiarch. That means we both use arm(hf) and x86_64 servers in one cluster, with the same Docker images. Why should you want this? Some architectures are better suited for some tasks, have a small app that doesn’t need much single thread power? https://eyskens.me/why-linode-does-replace-runabove/ Sun, 06 Mar 2016 10:59:23 +0100 https://eyskens.me/why-linode-does-replace-runabove/ Follow up on my last post. Somebody at OVH decided that 7 days warning is enough to pull the plug at RunAbove (even 0 days for their extra storage disks). 7 days later somebody noticed maybe a migration guide would be handy telling that the VPS SSD replaces the beloved HA S (see last post for why not). Lucky we just had moved all our services away to not OVH. https://eyskens.me/why-ovh-cloud-doesnt-replace-runabove/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 17:00:52 +0100 https://eyskens.me/why-ovh-cloud-doesnt-replace-runabove/ I am a big fan of OVH. They got a great network, best DDoS protection, very good pricing, nice hardware but they made a mistake with their cloud. More than a year ago we at Innovate Technologies migrated many of our services to the new cloud service under the sub-diary of OVH called RunAbove. They had a nice offering. Sandboxes, with SSD, 2 or 4GB memory and shared resources. Great to develop on or run a small unimportant server. https://eyskens.me/http/2-with-lets-encrypt/ Fri, 27 Nov 2015 23:06:28 +0100 https://eyskens.me/http/2-with-lets-encrypt/ Last week we enabled HTTP/2 on all “new” infrastructure at SHOUTca.st, serving all ITFrame API requests, Cast streams and album art faster. When updating the Debian based servers today I also took the time to upgrade my blog here. Let’s encrypt As you can see I also changed from CloudFlare’s TLS to Let’s encrypt (a few weeks ago). They were friendly enough to let me in for the beta test. https://eyskens.me/cast-dj/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 18:57:56 +0100 https://eyskens.me/cast-dj/ At SHOUTca.st, we’re working hard. Developing new products and bringing you improvements to our current services. But sometimes I feel it’s not clear to everybody what we are doing currently on the development side of things. That’s why I’m running a new blog series to explain the things behind the scenes of our development. This series is called “Meanwhile in Git” as we use Git to work on our internal projects. https://eyskens.me/floating-containers-on-an-arm-mini-cloud/ Tue, 15 Sep 2015 22:40:00 +0100 https://eyskens.me/floating-containers-on-an-arm-mini-cloud/ Scaleway is a great idea. Using self-designed ARM hardware to host small applications on and being able to offer it at a price your Amazon instance can barely boot for. In fact I moved my blog to there and be able to run it on my dedicated supercharged Raspberry Pi like server and still have enough power left to play Angry Birds (if only that was possible). Their vision is to horizontal scale your apps over several small machines.