Bridging the Decades

Installing Kubernetes for Docker just minutes after I’ve asked for an OpenVMS license (because I want to run a VAX in simh). Bridging the decades… I like that.

Build a K8s Cluster in Azure

Kubernetes is the hottest container runtime. Kubernetes is hard to build. The first statement is correct, the latter one not necessarily. Actually, maintaining Kubernetes is the harder part, but building its infrastructure doesn’t have to be. This final part of our small series about Azure (part one) will show you…

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Plancked

Planck PCB

There is no way back once you have left rubber dome keyboards. Do yourself a favour and free yourself from typing on keyboards that give you the experience of typing on wet cardboard: a mechanical keyboard looks good, feels good, and adds that ‘klack’ factor to your life. There are…

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First Steps With Azure

Sometimes it takes visiting a meetup in order to note that Microsoft isn’t the company that it used to be. Should you be using Azure for a while, you may skip this post; the rest might follow me along Microsoft’s cloud solution that doesn’t need to hide from Amazon’s overwhelming…

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Hard Truths In a Few Words

In just a couple of sentences this article (German) in a major German news portal slaps the faces of older employees: the negative effects of them having in your company are significant, especially in the building and services sectors, the article is quoting a study. At least in some economic…

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Analog Screenshots

Did you know that the IBM 704 (“electronic data processing machine”) had a camera unit that was attached to the smaller one of its CRT’s in order to take visual recordings on film (a.k.a. screenshots)? (Source: IBM 704, operations manual)

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Dying? Clojure? Come on!

A couple of weeks ago the Clojure community had a discussion whether Clojure is dying or not. Most of this lament seems to be based on some peoples’ wish for happiness that obviously wasn’t served enough. That’s a bit too neurotic, I think; do you really want to be constantly…

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Running a Lisp Machine On Your Desktop

Genera Desktop

Sometimes interesting things happened so much time ago, you simply miss them. Although I was aware about these super cool Lisp machines back in decades long ago, I didn’t even think about looking for an emulator. Maybe there was too much other stuff that distracted me from these things, but…

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