From 353ca6154ff67c64cd721970ef9a47eb09461db6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Buetow
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:28:58 +0200
Subject: Update content for html
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uptime-stats.html | 2 +-
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In random order:
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Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
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DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
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The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
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100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
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Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
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Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
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The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+
97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
+
Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+
Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+
Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
+
Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
+
Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
+
Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
-
Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-
Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-
Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
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C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
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Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-
Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
+
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
+
Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
+
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+
Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
-
Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-
Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
-
The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
-
Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-
Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
-
Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
-
21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
+
Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
-
DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-
Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-
The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
-
Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
+
Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
+
Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
+
DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
+
Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
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Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-
Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-
Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
+
The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
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Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+
Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
+
C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
+
The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
-
Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
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Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
-
Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
+
Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+
DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
+
Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
+
21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
+
Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+
Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
+
Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
-
97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-
Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
+
Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
+
Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
+
Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
+
The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
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Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
+
Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
-
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
-
Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
-
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
-
The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+
Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
+
Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+
Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
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Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
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Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
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Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
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The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
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BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
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Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
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Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
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Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
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Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
+
BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
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The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+
Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
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The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
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Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
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Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
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The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
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Getting Things Done; David Allen
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Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
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The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
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101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
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Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
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The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+
Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
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Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
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Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
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So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
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Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
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Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
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Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
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The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
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Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
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Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
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Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
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Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
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Getting Things Done; David Allen
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Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
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The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
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The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
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Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
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The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
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Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
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Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
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Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
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Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
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Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
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Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
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Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
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Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
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The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
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Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
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The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
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Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
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The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
-
Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
+
So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
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Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
-
The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
-
Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
+
Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
+
Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
+
101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+
The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
+
The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
@@ -164,31 +164,31 @@
Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
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Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
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Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
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Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
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The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
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Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
-
Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
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Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
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F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
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Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+
The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
+
Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
+
Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
+
Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
+
Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
+
F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
+
Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
+
Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
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Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
+
Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
+
Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
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Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
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Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
Podcasts
@@ -197,32 +197,32 @@
In random order:
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Fork Around And Find Out
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Dev Interrupted
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BSD Now [BSD]
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The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
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The Changelog Podcast(s)
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Dev Interrupted
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
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Cup o' Go [Golang]
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Backend Banter
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Fallthrough [Golang]
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Modern Mentor
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Pratical AI
-
Maintainable
Hidden Brain
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The Changelog Podcast(s)
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The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
Wednesday Wisdom
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Fork Around And Find Out
+
Modern Mentor
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Maintainable
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Pratical AI
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Cup o' Go [Golang]
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Fallthrough [Golang]
+
BSD Now [BSD]
+
Backend Banter
Podcasts I liked
I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.
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CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
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Modern Mentor
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Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
Java Pub House
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CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
FLOSS weekly
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Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
+
Modern Mentor
Ship It (predecessor of Fork Around And Find Out)
Newsletters I like
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The Imperfectionist
Register Spill
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Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
The Valuable Dev
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byteSizeGo
Ruby Weekly
Golang Weekly
The Pragmatic Engineer
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Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
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byteSizeGo
VK Newsletter
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Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
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Monospace Mentor
Changelog News
+
Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
+
Monospace Mentor
Magazines I like(d)
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
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freeX (not published anymore)
Linux Magazine
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LWN (online only)
Linux User
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freeX (not published anymore)
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LWN (online only)
Formal education
diff --git a/gemfeed/2025-12-07-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-8.html b/gemfeed/2025-12-07-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-8.html
index ed67c72d..448ee49d 100644
--- a/gemfeed/2025-12-07-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-8.html
+++ b/gemfeed/2025-12-07-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-8.html
@@ -158,7 +158,52 @@ NAMESPACE: monitoring
STATUS: deployed
-The persistence-values.yaml configures Prometheus and Grafana to use the NFS-backed persistent volumes I mentioned earlier, ensuring data survives pod restarts. The persistent volume definitions bind to specific paths on the NFS share using hostPath volumes—the same pattern used for other services in Part 7:
+The persistence-values.yaml configures Prometheus and Grafana to use the NFS-backed persistent volumes I mentioned earlier, ensuring data survives pod restarts. It also enables scraping of etcd and kube-controller-manager metrics:
+
+
+
+By default, k3s binds the controller-manager to localhost only, so the "Kubernetes / Controller Manager" dashboard in Grafana will show no data. To expose the metrics endpoint, add the following to /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml on each k3s server node:
+
+
+
+
+Repeat for r1 and r2. After restarting all nodes, the controller-manager metrics endpoint will be accessible and Prometheus can scrape it.
+
+The persistent volume definitions bind to specific paths on the NFS share using hostPath volumes—the same pattern used for other services in Part 7:
diff --git a/gemfeed/atom.xml b/gemfeed/atom.xml
index 1cd3d97c..ad53209f 100644
--- a/gemfeed/atom.xml
+++ b/gemfeed/atom.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
- 2025-12-26T00:46:52+02:00
+ 2025-12-26T01:27:25+02:00foo.zone feedTo be in the .zone!
@@ -1083,7 +1083,52 @@ NAMESPACE: monitoring
STATUS: deployed
-The persistence-values.yaml configures Prometheus and Grafana to use the NFS-backed persistent volumes I mentioned earlier, ensuring data survives pod restarts. The persistent volume definitions bind to specific paths on the NFS share using hostPath volumes—the same pattern used for other services in Part 7:
+The persistence-values.yaml configures Prometheus and Grafana to use the NFS-backed persistent volumes I mentioned earlier, ensuring data survives pod restarts. It also enables scraping of etcd and kube-controller-manager metrics:
+
+
+
+By default, k3s binds the controller-manager to localhost only, so the "Kubernetes / Controller Manager" dashboard in Grafana will show no data. To expose the metrics endpoint, add the following to /etc/rancher/k3s/config.yaml on each k3s server node:
+
+
+
+
+Repeat for r1 and r2. After restarting all nodes, the controller-manager metrics endpoint will be accessible and Prometheus can scrape it.
+
+The persistent volume definitions bind to specific paths on the NFS share using hostPath volumes—the same pattern used for other services in Part 7:
-This site was last updated at 2025-12-26T00:46:52+02:00
+This site was last updated at 2025-12-26T01:27:25+02:00
The following stats were collected via uptimed on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by guprecords, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.