Tools to start learning some geek stuff An investigation of using Kubernetes to host prometheus for collecting monitoring. In the future I would like to split the Kubernetes from the Prometheus post. Links GitHub Source Repo. VS Code IDE Firebase Website Hosting Hugo Generate Web Page
VS Code Another page with a collection of links and notes that I am accumulating while learning how to use the VS Code IDE. This article evaluates the main IDE’s. It is available for download and installation is pretty straight forward. VS Code Addons As with most IDE’s the Addons (and managing of them) is the big win. Some I found helpful are: Quokka FiveThings: Five VS Code Extensions You Should Know About
A friend of mine started doing Code Club at the local schools. With the recent christmas holidays I thought it would be a great Father and Son project. Starting with the scratch you can find the projects Basically it is drag and drop programming and you can create some games quickly - The code club example 3 with a score was a big success. I have to say that it has been interesting.
Domain Name Hosting Services So just over a year ago I had the idea of registering a domain name. Working with DNS isn’t something new and I have done my bit as a sysadmin using windows, bind, AWS Route53, GCP Cloud DNS and Azure. At the time I decided to use GoDaddy. I had used it for a job previously and the price was good. So 10 months later it tried to auto renew for twice the price as the initial purchase and I didn’t like that idea.
Static HTML Generators This is my first post using Hugo. And yes it is still rough around the edges. ** Jekyll I had problems getting Jekyll to work that were most likely related to lack of understanding on my part more than issues with the product. ** HUGO So i started trying Hugo. Initially i tried using the govendor process which had an now reported error which is resolved by removing it from the installation documentation.
I thought it would be interesting to try learning a new programming langauge. So i followed the instructions provided. I originally published it to github pages as an experiment. This should now have been moved