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I've recently started using Obsidian Notes as a part of my daily workflow and I have to say, it's wonderful. For the unitiated: Obsidian Notes is a personal knowledge base solution that uses local plain-text Markdown files. So, basically, it's a very advanced Markdown editor, with tons of features...and its free. I had long been searching for such a product. I've tried many: EverNote, OneNote, Google Keep, Notion, Joplin and a few others. None quite met my needs: support for Markdown syntax, synchronization, mobile apps, encryption, extensibility through themes/plugins. Joplin came very close. I had been using it most recently until I decided to take the plunge and try Obsidian. I haven't looked back.

Do you find yourself typing the same thing over and over again? Sort've gets old doesn't it? Wouldn't it be nice to just automatically insert that boilerplate text with a simple shortcut? That's where a text expander comes in handy! The venerable TextExpander is an excellent option, but it is not free. Here we'll explore some free & open source alternatives. I promise, once you integrate one of these tools into your workflow, things will never be the same.

I've long been a fan of Docker (and containerization in general), but I've managed to avoid Kubernetes (k8s) for some time. Mostly because I didn't have a suitable environment in which to play around with it. That changed recently when I discovered Oracle Cloud and…

Last night, I was taking inventory of my old Ubuntu 18.04 Intel NUC's Docker stacks & containers. I'm prepping it to start fresh and integrate into the Docker Swarm I run now. Anyway, I came across a container for Netdata. The container was listed as…