Viktor's Tech Musings & Security Paranoia

Over the last few years, two things that I’ve paid close attention to are Deep Work and Remote Work.

In recent years, we’ve started to see more people speaking out about mental health in the tech industry.

Intro While still in college (go Broncos!)

Troubleshooting an HTTPS connection can be somewhat challenging at times (in particular if Cloudflare is involved).

In Kubernetes 1.8, RBAC was introduced to improve the security.

Over the last year, I’ve been hacking on-and-off on a little project called Sonar.

Today I got my hands on the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.

If you’re reading the KVM/Networking documentation for Ubuntu, you’ll see that the recommended way to expose VMs to the world (public or private interface) is to use a Bridge.

Disclosure: I have no idea how this impact the security of pfSense.

Using Kerberos.io with Docker and multiple cameras – Viktor Petersson – Medium

Building a low powered NAS/backup target with a Raspberry Pi

In my post How to fix kernel_task CPU usage on Yosemite, I first wrote about how a broken logic board can trigger high CPU usage from kernel_task as well as how to fix it.

(I try hard to stay away from Windows environments, but sometimes it’s unavoidable.)

Provisioner I’ve been working on Provisioner for a while now and it’s starting to come together.

Viktor Petersson, Screenly I was recently interviewed by Dave Haynes of Sixteen:Nine about Screenly.

I recently had to migrate a number of VMs currently running on an NFS share to an iSCSI target.

Here’s my deck from tonight’s talk at Ansible London.

Digital signage solution, Screenly, chooses Canonical’s Ubuntu Core Super excited to announce that Screenly partners with Ubuntu/Canonical to bring Screenly to Ubuntu Core.

How Weave Net Enables a Global Docker Cluster with OnApp I guest blogged a bit on Weave’s blog today.

Here’s my deck from my recent IoT London talk:

Sometime ago, I wrote the blog post How to fix kernel_task CPU usage on Yosemite.

For some time, Ansible has been my configuration management of choice and we use it for both Screenly and YippieMove.

The built-in Internet Sharing in OS X is very handy.

I’m a huge fan of autojump.

After moving to London, I decided to go with NatWest as my bank.

Dear Digital Security Controls (DSC), I recently purchased your T-link extension (IP module) for two alarm systems that I wanted to be able to remotely manage.

(Fine, this isn’t war dialing in the 90s context, but it made for a good title.)

After using Loggly for a few years, I stumbled across Logentries (disclosure: referral link).

An update on YippieMove

Yesterday I had the pleaseure to speak at Open Cloud Day in Bern, Switzerland.

Modern document management for your startup We’re currently in the process of revamping how we deal with documents at WireLoad.

Manage Docker resources with Cgroups My latest blog-post about Docker and Cgroups is live at CloudSigma’s blog.

hosted-graphite: One of the best ways to ensure your whole team knows what your technology is doing is to ensure that everyone has quick and easy access to your dashboards.

Here’s my presentation from ApacheCon in Austin, TX.

I’ve been using Google Voice for a long time.

As I was working on my upcoming presentation at ApacheCon, I was playing a little bit with cgroups inside Docker.

When deling with website migrations, you sometimes need to map out the old content such that you can create your redirect to the new pages.

On the Secure Messaging Community nadimkobeissi: This afternoon, WIRED published an article praising Telegram, a mobile messaging app, for its privacy features and “hardcore encryption”.

Just ran across this great slide deck today over at GrowthHackers.

Are they using Google Apps?

For some time, I’ve worn both my Pebble and a Fitbit Flex.

» CoreOS is now available on CloudSigma!

GetCanary.io - Intelligent notifications The other day I had a Eureka moment while archiving the daily batch of notifications from various server tasks.

Here’s the presentation deck from CloudExpo Europe 2015.

Privacy is difficult in this day and age.

In recent years, it has become fairly common within the retail space to use (IP-based) surveillance cameras to track foot traffic (this can also be referred to as a “people counter”).

Today I stumbled across the Purism’s Librem 15 laptop.

In the last few weeks, a lot of details have been disclosed around Ross Ulbricht’s arrest.

Interview with Viktor Petersson, VP of Business Development for IAAS provider CloudSigma Interview with Viktor Petersson, VP of Business Development for IAAS provider CloudSigma on what it takes to be a Gartner-Cool Vendor

While I’ve switched most of my workloads to Docker, there are still some situations where you need to manage and set up Virtual Machines (VM).