Setting up an old school Self-Hosted Server Stack: Mattermost, OpenWebUI, and Monitoring This is how Claude and I installed an Ollama server from scratch. Part 1: Installing Ollama and OpenWebUI Installing Ollama First, we installed Ollama, which is the backend for our AI operations: 1curl https://ollama.ai/install.sh …

Finding files with fzf ripgrep and nnn This is the next articial in the series 'mouseless'. Find previous articles here: Terminal workflow Nice vim commands Why? Because navigating through files in can take a lot of time, especially if you are faced with a big git repo. However, tools like ripgrep and fzf can assist …

This is a post about my workflow when editing files in the terminal. When editing files quickly I usually resort to vim. It requires a lot of muscle memory but hey, one needs to train their reptile brain, right. Tmux config So I use tmux and vim so you need those two installed. My tmux config is really simple. I …

Here is my vim & tmux cheatsheet. tmux This is my .tmux.conf. I prefer to set the meta key to q. 1set-option -g prefix C-q 2set -g mouse off 3 4set -g status-bg black 5set -g status-fg white Command What it does ctrl+q arrows Navigate windows (tmux) ctrl+q % Split vertically (tmux) ctrl+q " Split …

Arch Linux is extremely well documented so I highly recommend to read the Arch installation guide. This guide installs the Gnome desktop environment, but one can easily swap Gnome for i3 or another desktop environment, or leave it all together. This is the procedure I used for installing Arch on a Thinkpad t460s, t490s …

Here is how to quickly install Kubernetes with ingress on your laptop. I use this to test and create operators with the Operator Framework. Still learning though. I was first using K3s but then I discovered Kind which seems to be even faster, deployment wise. Also it leaves a smaller footprint because it runs in a …

This post is about installing lightweight Kubernetes (K3s) on our new vm. K3s The previous post was all about being able to install Kubernetes quickly. For that I will use k3s from Rancher because it is fast. Let's go! Prepare We do this for testing so we can safely disable the firewall and SELinux on our CentOS vm. …

Here is a post about how to create virtual machines with Vagrant and the libvirt plugin. Why use libvirt as a vagrant provider Because when on a modern Linux distro running Gnome, chances are it's already there! I use Vagrant extensively to run quick, short lived virtual machines to test and try out things. I always …