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Raspberry Pi is getting busy

Posted on vr 16 oktober 2026 in 2026

A while back I added k3s to both of my Raspberry Pi 5 devices running Debian 13 Trixie. The idea is to run most software in a containerized manner. The last couple of days I've been adding some stuff and now one of the Pi devices is actually getting a …


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Debian 13 setup notes

Posted on wo 14 oktober 2026 in 2026

This is just a list of manual tasks that I still need to automate at some point. Left here as a pointer for future self

krew

To get the oidc-login plugin working in kubectl I needed to install krew first. source

(
  set -x; cd "$(mktemp -d)" &&
  OS="$(uname | tr '[:upper …

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Unpretentious automation using justfile

Posted on zo 11 oktober 2026 in 2026

There are one-off shell commands, there are shell script that you run, comment and rerun. And there is proper automation. Repeatable, visible, tested. A nice CI/CD pipeline using your technology of choice, all with test cases, secrets management, maybe alerting. The works.

But last year I came across something …


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Rethinking my social media presence

Posted on zo 11 oktober 2026 in 2026

If there is one clear path in my social media activities, it is inconsistency. It is inconsistency caused by changing platforms, changing ambitions and unpredictable motivation to put effort in. 'Social Media' has always a part of my Internet experience, long before 'Social Media' became a thing or even the …


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This website now served using an Nginx container managed by k3s on a Raspberry Pi

Posted on za 10 oktober 2026 in 2026

The content of this website goes way back and was published on a large number of subdomains and domain names over the years. The new URL for now is https://blog.lutra-it.eu and I realize that moving the website from URL to URL on a yearly basis does not …


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