Andrew Wippler's Sketchpad

I replaced OnlyOffice with Collabora in my lab.

I am thoroughly convinced that God still desires to pour out His Spirit into His chosen vessels as recorded in Acts 2:17–18, with the ultimate end being the salvation of souls (Acts 2:21).

Since August, I have been updating my digital life, which began with organizing my digital collection of books.

I think I had it all wrong when I accused OnlyOffice of sending data to the Russian goverment.

In my quest to replace Google Docs, I came across AbiWord, Gnome's editor.

Vibe coding is supposedly going to replace actual programmers.

The problem I have a few frustrations with Google Docs.

Dear Google, I want a functioning product that is fast.

I have delayed switching away from Wordpress on my personal blog to something different for quite some time.

I have been using GnuCash for personal finance since 2014.

ChatGPT4 has emotion now, and I asked it to write a song about everything being just OK in Oulunkylä (A neighborhood of Helsinki).

For most of my life I had to visit the optometrist yearly as my vision changed frequently, but as I got older, my eyes stopped degrading.

Next year I want to encourage my children to read the Bible through at least once.

I recently switched my home setup from nginx to traefik.

How do you repent from sin?

The Zoom application has built in AI captions for various languages.

As AI tools are becoming more frequent, many have found interesting use cases.

This past week I have been able to traverse down the rabbit hole of personal tech debt.

I have been working on a personal project to organize my preaching illustrations.

"I am right.

Recently, I evaluated why I take time out of my day to read the Bible.

I just remembered how painful it was to share content through a blog to friends.

After setting up an RSS reader and a bridge to pull in tweets, I no longer access Twitter.

This morning I read from one of the people I follow a short, concise list of comparing Depression and Anxiety.

It is very ironic - to me at least - that when I visit drive.google.com on a Chromebook, I am presented with a notification to install Google drive.

The new year has already been dubbed by some in the tech world as the year of RSS, meaning people will ditch social media for the consumption-style RSS feed.

LastPass was recently hacked and the hacker was able to steal keys from a developer which had access to the company's backup files.

God became a man.

It is impossible to define a complex thought with one sentence.

As programmers develop new text generation methods, what can come as a result is interesting.

The painfully slow death of social media is pushing the masses back into our blog-o-spheres.

At first glance, the reMarkable seemed expensive for a one show pony.

As Containers have progressed, Docker has stood out as the defacto standard.

As a step further to my previous post, I have created a boilerplate for future WordPress projects.

WordPress is amazingly popular considering how antiquated the file structure and code appears to be.

I recently updated my kubernetes cluster from 1.10.2 to 1.11.0.

Jenkins-x appears to be the next big thing in CI/CD workflows - especially if you develop applications on kubernetes.

This is the script I use to change the DNS record of my home IP when it changes.

After I created a home kubernetes cluster, I immediately wanted to allow external access to pods/services/ingresses hosted inside the cluster.

So I admit it - I am completely obsessed with Kubernetes.

There is a God and He loves you.

I have not been posting as much tech stuff on my blog as I want to.

Merry Christmas from the Wippler family!

The day before thanksgiving, I was pondering an issue I was having.

In order to add a user to a kubernetes cluster, we will need several things: kubectl, CA.crt and CA.key (found in your head node's /etc/kubernetes/pki folder), and openssl.

I recently had the need to populate a file in a docker container based upon whether or not the container is in production or development.

I was going through my articles I have collected over the years and found this little gem.

It has been a month and a half since we moved, and we finally are on a set schedule.

(Note: This guest post is from my wife, Nicole.