2019-Oct-05

Somebody Out There

One really nice thing from the MacSysadmin conference (see the next/previous article), i got to hear that i have at least one reader of my blog! Yay! Thank you! I wish i had a little hand-wavy-thing on this blog, like the one on Medium, so people could react and say “Yay!” or “I read this”, or even “Thanks!”, if they were so inclined. I’d like it to be privacy conscious though.

2019-Oct-05

Shut Up and Speak

I’ve spent this wonderful week at the MacSysAdmin conference, which, as you may be able to deduce from its name, is a conference for Mac sysadmins. Being at a conference, and at this conference in particular, can be inspiring, which is why i’ve decided to create a follow-up talk for my first one (or last one, however you want to put it), on the topic of Humane Security. Now while i’d love to give it at MacSysadmin, which i consider the crown jewel of all Mac sysadmin conferences1, i really feel i should first approach Macaduk with my proposal.

2019-Sep-25

Going home, not back

Using an iPad with a hard keyboard is kinda nifty. There’s Cmd+Tab to switch between apps, Cmd+Space to search. Arrow keys, with the Cmd and Alt modifiers work as they should. And while i’ve been searching for a Back button on the iPad, you can go Home using the keyboard with the shortcut Cmd+H. Nifty. Coming from an Android world, a universal Back button is a central navigation device that i’m truly missing.

2019-Sep-19

Blogging on an iPad (the non-Apple way)

Thers’s this thing in the Apple admins community called The Apple Way. It’s a half-humourous, half-cynical and just half-given-up way of saying that on an Apple device, you can do things the way Apple intended, or you can do it the hard way (but regretting you did). I publish my blog the hard way. My blog is built using a static website generator 1. Under the hood, it’s a bunch of markdown files, configuration files, styles and stuff, which the generator converts into a website.

2019-Sep-19

iPad as a tool

Two happy things coincided this week. Apple released a new iPad that you can use an actual keyboard with, and i had a meeting with my Apple SMEs. So i voiced an earlier thought i’d had, “can you get any actual work done with this?”. So the other one asked “Do you want to try?” Yes! Absolutely! Shure dang! (just as soon as i return the MacBook i borrowed from them :) 1

2019-Aug-31

Gitlab Pages and Automatic Letsencrypt Certificate

It happened again. I let this site’s certificate expire. I’d blame my faulty calendar entry, but it’s really just a case of my procrastination. As i was getting ready to read my article on how to renew the Letsencrypt certificate the hard way, again, i saw that Gitlab Pages had something new to surprise me with. Automatic Letsencrypt Certificate Management. By the beard of Odin. Here are the steps to enable that

Learning in public

Curing my incompetence, one step at the time, in front of an audience.