tag: Technology

Unshackle Your Digital Life Get a Google Pixel phone, so you can install GrapheneOS. I recommend Google Pixel 6a. Very cheap and very good. Get rid of all the apps you don’t need Sync your data with SyncThing Create your own NextCloud server Use VimWiki/Obsidian + vim/neovim to take notes in markdown, and take full ownership over your own data Use Linux on your personal computer(s) Use pass to store your accounts/passwords Don’t let proprietary software take your money and own YOUR data Never look back

These modern Linux tools might enhance your workflow fd is a simple and fast file search tool, enhancing the Unix find command. exa is a modern replacement for ls, enhancing file listing with better defaults. dog is a modern, feature-rich DNS client for the command-line. ncdu is a console disk usage analyzer for quick space management. bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration for the command-line. sd is a simple and intuitive find-and-replace CLI tool, aiming to improve upon sed....

Demystifying Cloud Engineering Cloud engineering is the application of engineering disciplines to cloud computing. It brings a systematic approach to the high-level concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance in conceiving, developing, operating, and maintaining cloud computing systems. It is a multidisciplinary method that encompasses contributions from diverse areas such as systems engineering, software engineering, web engineering, and database engineering. Key Components of Cloud Engineering Cloud Infrastructure: Design and management of the physical and virtual resources necessary for cloud computing....

Understanding DevOps: A Brief Overview DevOps, a compound of development (Dev) and operations (Ops), is a software development and delivery approach that emphasizes communication, collaboration, integration, and automation among software developers and IT operations teams. The goal of DevOps is to improve and speed up the delivery of software applications and services. By fostering a culture where building, testing, and releasing software can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably, DevOps has become a key practice in the software industry....