dnsmichi.com

I like mountains, lakes, nature, hiking, and quiet spots, creative food, new tastes and culture.

At tech conferences, your badge is more than just a name tag.

"Sounds like one year worth for ten." said a friendly human on LinkedIn, cheering on my promotion to Principal Developer Advocate. 15 months after my promotion to Staff.

History Ghost is an open-source CMS that offers a blog with light-weight editing and Markdown formatting, social cards, and more, including a newsletter system.

Sound ... bar A headset for remote calls has been my go-to for many years.

Every March, I take time to reflect on my journey at GitLab.

After upgrading my remote office setup in early 2024 with a new 49" monitor and Caldigit Docking station, a discussion about multiple monitor / PC support started in the LinkedIn post comments. 🦊 Michael Friedrich 🌈 on LinkedIn: Remote workspace setup 4.0:

I've been exploring Bluesky as Twitter/X alternative for a year.

After upgrading to Ansible in recent weeks, the playbook to upgrade my Linux VMs stopped working with a cryptic error message, /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/env python3: not found ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini upgrade_linux_vms.yml

Weekend means time for maintenance tasks, this time upgrading this Ghost blog in Docker Compose on an Ubuntu VM.

A second Raspberry Pi 5 setup was required to perform comparison benchmarks with Ollama and LLMs, inspired by Philippe's tweets.

After four years all-remote, I decided to upgrade my remote workspace setup.

After studying Hardware/Software Systems Engineering 20 years ago, I've always been fascinated by the design and performance of modern embedded hardware.

It is rare that I feel that every year in my career brings me forward. 4 years in a row now at GitLab.

I have used Google Analytics for many years to get an insight into page views and visitor geography.