In this article, I share a full list of the tech I travel with in my Day Bag. As a busy Digital Nomad software developer and business founder, as soon as I’m away from home I lose the comfort of my chair and big screen. »
My elegant method to manage SSL certificates in a Nomad-native way with Certbot, leveraging Nomad templates. This method makes it possible to provide SSL certificates to any service running in Nomad, from NGINX to Postfix. »
How I managed to trigger automated deployments from GitHub Actions of my Docker images with Nomad, hacking around Nomad variables, and securing the whole process with Nomad policies. »
Bringing the ergonomics of the 16 inches MacBook Pro to my 2012 Apple wireless Keyboard and Trackpad, with a custom tray design that creates a single solid piece. »
On improving the resiliency of a Web application to failed network paths, temporary proxying and tunneling errors and HTTP timeouts, with absolutely no server-side changes. »
How to deploy a Nomad cluster on cheap Vultr servers, step-by-step, using a minimal Alpine Linux distribution. The Nomad cluster will be made of 3 Nomad servers and as many Nomad clients as you’d like. We will be automating the process of adding more Nomad clients as you grow. »
Optimizations that resulted in much less events per seconds on our RabbitMQ cluster. We have reduced approximately by 40% the CPU load induced by RabbitMQ on the host server. »
View my full carbon footprint estimation report for 2021, containing all details and calculation methods. »
Time to change the status quo with Prose, a native cross-platform team messaging app, built on solid foundations, thanks to the XMPP standard. This article announces the Prose project, which I am starting aside from Crisp, my main business. »
The sixth (and last!) article of a series on the MakAir open-source ventilator, a project that I founded with friends, which was born at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. »
