Automate attention

The biggest challenge for me moving into the manager role was the seemingly ever growing ToDo list and the massive context switches that are required.

At my old university (NTNU) we had our own irc server on freenode.

It’s the morning of x-mas eve, the kids are plowing through big red socks filled with candy, and I’m tucked away with my laptop and thought I’d share one of my more long term homelab wins.

Sometimes you need to be multiple people and use different ssh keys even.

Many engineers have a strained relationship with Bash.

The need for air sensing I had a conversation with my wife about ventilation that went something like this: I have a soft spot for buying sensors and gadgets at night when I’m supposed to go to sleep.

A sudden urge to upgrade It was a warm spring day, kids were out of the house, I had just finished a round of Rocket League and I thought; Maybe I should upgrade my kubernetes cluster?

After wanting one for many years, I finally pulled the trigger and bought a 3D printer as a birthday gift to myself.

The year of interviews A few years ago the company I worked for had a period of intense hiring.

So from my post about replacing my doorbell with a security camera you might have noticed that I have a accumulated quite a few PoE security cameras that I use with Frigate to get object detection and fancy integrations with Home-Assistant.

So my door bell ran out of battery, and I started wondering if I could use my security camera instead.

One major difference between running k8s in a corporate setting vs running in a homelab is the extreme amount of custom hardware you end up wanting to put into the cluster.

I don’t like having to relying on other people’s computers, aka the cloud, so when I can I selfhost the tools and services I need.

In my second year at the Norwegian Tech & Natural Science University (NTNU) in Trondheim I joined DotKom.

Kevin in The Office once said ‘Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick’.

tl;dr Remapping caps lock to control and escape on Linux The elephant on the keyboard Nothing good has ever come from pressing the CAPS LOCK key, either accidentally or intentionally during a heated discussion on IRC.

tl;dr: This is a ´problem -> solution´ type post, reflecting on problems I encountered while writing a bash prompt generator.

A journey begins Almost 10 years ago I finished my Masters degree in Computer Science and started working as a consultant at KnowIt in Oslo.

I have two modes, completely distracted and dead focused.

I’m horrible at waiting, so when things are slow or repetitive I tend to automate them.

To help me figure this out, I use a few shell functions.

I’m a Norwegian Software Engineer, weight lifter, hobby psychologist, metal head and I love to automate things.