Intro

I recently purchased a 3D resin printer for D&D miniature printing.

I had quite an interest in 3D printing for some years now and have seen the topic as a somewhat useless hobby with no actual real-world usability for me directly.

Of course one is able to create anything you can imagin (and print when it comes to size) like replacement parts for oldschool consoles or simple shapes like a hanger for your headset for example but I did not see any use in it, especially since all the small things I could imagine would already exist for purchase or my hobbies would not require special parts like mentioned above.

Here is a quick collection of some interesting shell tools I have encountered and been using lately.

fd

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

fasd

https://github.com/clvv/fasd

dry

https://github.com/moncho/dry

axel

https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel

bashtop

https://github.com/aristocratos/bashtop

In this article I want to paste a code snippet which is checking it’s filtered subfolders for docker-compose files and pulls and ups automagically.

Here it is!

#!/bin/bash

# our docker base folder
DOCKER_BASE_DIR="/home/user/docker"
# folders to exclude from udpate
DIRS_TO_EXCLUDE=("code" "snacklish" "nginx-proxy" "psono")
# docker-compose binary location
DC=$(which docker-compose)

cd ${DOCKER_BASE_DIR}
for D in *; do
    # if is directory and not excluded
    if ([ -d "${D}" ] && [[ ! " ${DIRS_TO_EXCLUDE[@]} " =~ " ${D} " ]]); then
        cd ${D}
        echo "I am in $(pwd)"
        if [ -f "./docker-compose.yaml" ]; then
            echo "I found a docker-compose.yaml, updating ..."
            ${DC} pull && ${DC} up -d && cd ..
        else
            echo "No docker-compose.yaml found, stepping back"
            cd ..
        fi
    fi
done

Oriented on Selenium acceptance tests, I have designed the output to be as readable and as debuggable as possible.

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology is a system for monitoring and recognizing errors of storage media like Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) and Solid State Disks (SSD).

All HDDs and SSDs (refered to as HDD in the following) have SMART functionality while some external drive cases do NOT support reading SMART values from the HDD directly.

Since SMART is not a standardised procedure or well-defined value collection, these values differ greatly between manufacturers and might indicate death for some hard drives while others do not even show or update said values.

Here are some funny IT job titles which I might deserve, working as a “Junior Backend Developer”:

• DevOps Engineer
• Technical Digital Analytics Consultant
• Internetprogrammierer (german)
• Penetration Tester, Integration Tester
• System Engineer, System Administrator
• Backend Developer, Frontend Developer, Full-Stack Developer
• IT-Data Architect
• Database Engineer / Developer
• Software Quality Assurance
• IT-Auditor
• Digital Marketing Manager
• Business Intelligence Analyst
• IT-Systemintegrator
• Systemengineer
• SEO & Analytics Manager
• Marketing Data Analyst
• Business Analyst