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kowalski7cc

20 karma · joined November 29, 2021

Cheerful, tech-savvy dragon who loves programming and often shares his passion through teaching. Also cherishes cozy naps!
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kowalski7cc··on Flatpak from the CLI Sucks
Flatpak is today's preferred distribution platform for graphical desktop apps, yet it isn't popular for terminal apps, and for good reason! Launching CLI apps is difficult and not very user-friendly. However, Flatpak can take inspiration from other systems to improve CLI app usage.
kowalski7cc··on Short-lived certificates: a nuisance or an automation opportunity?
How the policy change of certification authorities can push IT towards better HTTPS certificate management
kowalski7cc··on Static web hosting on Kubernetes with OCI images as volumes
Taking advantage new Kubernetes features to simplify static site deployment, and not only, by using OCI images as container volumes along with vendor runtime images.
kowalski7cc··on Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Sooner or later I'll split the game from data so the second part will be easier, allowing custom flatpaks to extend data. The flatpak has received updates especially for keeping an up-to-date runtime but the upstream game, however, has not and Flathub will only show appstream data for the update. You can see on the flatpak manifest repo that latest commit is 6 months old: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.k4zmu2a.spacecadetpinb...
kowalski7cc··on Show HN: I built a simple, open-source tool to manage servers and SSH keys
You should really look into Ansible, and ssh_config...
kowalski7cc··on TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer
Hexagons are the bestagons
kowalski7cc··on TSMC experimenting with rectangular wafers vs. round for more chips per wafer
Why not hexagons?
kowalski7cc··on Saturn's Hexagon
Hexagons are the bestagons