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My dumb theory applied to how much you should get paid

How much should I be paid? Is $X a good salary for us? Should I switch jobs for $X? These are questions I get asked all the time on social media, and honestly, I used to ask myself these things too. Me when I get these questions So, let’s dive into these questions using a theory I totally made up. 😜 Understanding Your Salary Let’s face it—aside from HR, no one really knows how salaries work....

~3000Km trip through Morocco, Here is what I learnt

Last month, I went on an adventure. It’s been more than a year now that I’ve been wanting to do this, but for a some haven’t. 23th of July 2022, I packed my backpack and went into what turned out to be the longest and most aweosme trip I took in my whole life. Before diving into the lessons I learnt from the trip, here are some facts about it:...

THS: Life in the Web

In the previous THS posts we have setup the hardware and the OS and installed the dotfiles. In this post we will talk about web browsers. Two years ago, I’ve written an article about the web browsers I was using at the time. Most of the things in that article are still the same, but there are some changes. My primary Browser I use Firefox as my primary browser. I use it because it is fast (post quantum era), customizable, provides more privacy option....

The holy setup - Treat your dotfiles better

Now that the hardware is here, and the OS is up and ready, It is time to install the packages we need and configure them to our likings. First let me tell you what I used to do: I used to keep the list of all the packages I need in csv files. For dotfiles I stored them in a plain directory tree, one folder per package. On new installs I use a shell script to filter the csv files and install the packages, and then copy the dotfiles from backup (HD or git)....

Finally rootless compose

Today I tried Docker Compose with rootless Podman 3.4.4, and the happy news is that it works 🎉. Podman (and Rootless) had compose support since version 3.0, However I’ve never had luck with it. I’ve tried it again today and it works perfectly. Here are the steps to run compose files using podman rootless. Ditch Docker and install Podman instead. Start the rootless Podman daemon systemctl --user start podman.socket Install compose (download the binary from the release page and put it in a folder figuring in you PATH) curl -L "https://github....

Takeways from CKAD

Hello again 👋 I passed CKAD exam last week and here are some takeways Takeways: It is not about prep, it is about how much do you know kubernetes (at the Developer level) and how much do you understand its different concepts. The exam is not hard, in the contrary if you know your Kubernetes, it is the best way to validate you skills and knowledge. It is worth every penny in that sense....

The Holy Setup - Road to the Valhalla

It’s been a long time since I wrote something in the blog. A lot of things happened since my last blogpost. One of the interesting things that I’ve been into is working on my new setup. This post is the first of a series of articles about my new setup. I’ll share with you the things I added to (and removed from) my workflow, and how they benefited me. The big problem: Hardware My job and my research as a systems’ engineer requires from me to create clusters of VMs (and containers) in order to simulate various environments and architectures....