kevin ✨ (he/him)

#DevOps person with a background in web dev.

Love #Rust, Hate facism. 🦀 🏴🚩

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KevinGimbel_at_fosstodon.org@mostr.pub

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2025-04-08 15:09:41

🔗 RE: "Denial"
Jeremy Keith on the Denial of using AI.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-adactio-com-journal-21831
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #ai #tech #ddos #open web

2025-04-03 08:41:06

When I was using WordPress, I had a ActivityPub Profile at @nprofile…3rnq but since moving to Kirby, this no longer exists yet there's still traffic to the ActivityPub endpoints from Mastodon servers.
How could I best handle this? Could I deploy a GoToSocial or similar "small" instance to handle this "profile"?
#ActivityPub #mastodon #mastoadmin #help #FollowerPower

2025-03-31 17:42:34

I’m very overstimulated today with all that’s happening at work, home, and on my beloved www.
Looking forward to some down time tonight.

2025-03-31 13:57:30

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@nprofile…qfh3 i know right?? I was blown as well when a coworker showed it to me. :D

2025-03-31 13:56:39

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@nprofile…qfh3 You can become 50% more effective by using :x (which does the same as :wq)

2025-03-23 17:00:22

🔗 RE: "Introducing JobSet"
New Kubernetes workload type to fit the needs of running distributed systems for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence applications.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-kubernetes-io-blog-2025-03-23-introducing-jobset
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #Kubernetes #AI #ML #DistributedSystems

2025-03-16 20:48:39

Happy 9th “First Mastodon Post” Anniversary to those who celebrate.
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1
#mastodon #fediverse

2025-03-14 10:52:27

🔗 RE: "ChatGPT Would be a Decent Policy Advisor"
A bit jokingly Maggie Appleton comments on a UK ministers usage of ChatGPT for policy advise
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-maggieappleton-com-2025-03-chat-gpt-policy
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #AI #Tech #Futurism

2025-03-11 19:24:39

Elon Musk has lost 132 billion(!!) dollar since the year started.
Nobody should be able to lose so much money and still have so much left. It’s completely absurd.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/
#TaxTheRich

2025-03-11 07:35:33

🔗 RE: "On Organizing"
A superb overview of organising. The article contains a well of knowledge and references, and starts strong with evidence that non-violent revolutions have a higher success rate than violent ones.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-lifeisasacredtext-com-organize
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #Politics #Protest #Organizing

2025-03-10 10:19:25

🔗 RE: "World's first 'body in a box' biological computer uses human brain cells with silicon-based computing"
<p>What a time to be alive 🥲 Apparently, we're now building real (lab-grown) brains into computer hardware.</p>
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-tomshardware-com-tech-industry-worlds-first-body-in-a-box-biological-computer-uses-human-brain-cells-with-silicon-based-computing
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #AI #Biology #Bio-Computing

2025-03-07 14:07:33

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@nprofile…qfh3 I agree. Would love to have better neighbours on all sides, and more collaboration between the people globally but it feels we’re far away from that.
At least within Europe we should keep the peace we have and stand together.

2025-03-07 09:17:57

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@nprofile…qfh3 regarding your post and especially this comment:
> In a way, I am becoming more and more a European nationalist.
I feel this tendency as well, and while I welcome a strong and independent European it goes a lot agains my ideals of "no borders, no nations". It's a odd feeling to feel, and one I have a hard time coming to terms with.

2025-02-28 12:16:57

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@nprofile…qfh3 yes, and custom domain if you want to, multi-user, plugins, etc. - I've been using it for years with no problem. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

2025-02-28 08:20:29

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@nprofile…qfh3 I use their Managed Nextcloud offering (1TB for I think 4EUR?) and compute for my web server :)

2025-02-27 09:22:26

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@nprofile…qfh3 can recommend Hetzner! I use them for all my stuff, and have used them in a professional context as well.

2025-02-26 14:00:06

Got Adobe Lightroom from work since I'll be doing some photography for my employer and holy shit it's good.
I've been using Darktable (FOSS) for my private photography which is great, but for (semi-) professional work it felt never quite "right".

2025-02-21 08:28:12

posting " #antifa " is not allowed on floss.social - wtf?
RE: https://floss.social/@OddDev/114040785145556419

2025-02-17 19:30:11

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@nprofile…ca53 I thought about splitting my work and private but they overlap and I guess that’s the idea of a Zettelkasten? To connect all ideas across all interests

2025-02-17 12:14:04

As I try to get into the habit of having a Zettelkasten I started of with multiple "Kasten" - one for tech and work, one for my other interests, one for learning languages, ... but that's not the point of it, so I consolidated them all into one big "Kasten".
Still very new to this, but it's very exciting!

2025-02-17 08:01:34

k9s, a superb terminal UI for Kubernetes, has released version 0.40.0! https://github.com/derailed/k9s/releases/tag/v0.40.0
#kubernetes #cli #tool #devops
📌 https://kevingimbel.de/status/1739779213

2025-02-15 19:35:01

My Fujifilm X-Pro1 doesn’t turn on anymore 😭😭😭

2025-02-14 09:27:14

🗞️ New blog post: "Rewriting a pushed commit message with git rebase"
🔗 https://kevingimbel.de/blog/rewriting-a-pushed-commit-message-with-git-rebase

2025-02-14 08:38:37

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@nprofile…ca53 thanks for including me! Long time since I've seen a #ff, would love to make it a habit again! :)

2025-01-13 08:03:25

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@nprofile…25dv yes that's a big plus! Keychron has this as well which I really liked (for mechanical Keyboards). @nprofile…qrcq

2025-01-13 06:47:58

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@nprofile…25dv @nprofile…qrcq +1 for both. Use the MX Keys is a great keyboard for Mac, and the Lift mouse is super comfy!

2024-12-25 10:15:02

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@nprofile…25dv Merry Christmas to you and the family! 🎄💖

2024-12-24 09:57:47

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@nprofile…qfh3 thanks! That’s nice to hear :)

2024-12-24 08:41:33

Reading about @nprofile…qfh3's GoToSocial setup makes me wanna run my own on my raspberry but then again I don’t have any real use case for it 😅
#selfhosted #GoToSocial #RaspberryPi

2024-12-22 16:59:27

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@nprofile…25dv just added the blueprint and it works like a charm! Thanks again, i was already thinking of putting some html together 😬

2024-12-22 15:42:22

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@nprofile…25dv oh nice!! Will do this, thanks 🙌

2024-12-22 10:42:06

Fellow #kirbycms users: Are there any plugins to resize/optimise images during upload? I feel very bad having ~40MB of images in a blog post, but I also don't want to resize them all by hand.
#lazyweb #followerpower #kirby #cms

2024-12-22 07:41:43

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@nprofile…qfh3 seems to be. I got a notification too but the status was already gone when I opened my app

2024-12-17 13:09:59

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@nprofile…25dv thanks for the write-up. I think you just saved me an extra round with Android.

2024-12-12 14:07:26

Downloaded llama3.3 70B (40GB) just to find out it requires more RAM than I have to run it locally. 😵
#llm #llama #ollama

2024-12-06 07:28:35

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@nprofile…25dv @nprofile…e96a I silently lost a domain a few month back and had the biggest heart-attack ever, but luckily got everything back.
Fingers crossed for you! 🤞

2024-12-04 09:46:42

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@nprofile…qfh3 k8s makes sense when you're trying to manage hundreds of containers across multiple servers. It's def harder to get into compared to docker and docker-compose. As for your Load Balancer I assume it isn't connected to the service - I think there should be some label selector assigned to it.

2024-12-03 09:45:04

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@nprofile…25dv Same, great book but not too surprising. The next one (Use of Weapons I think is the title) is quite good!

2024-12-02 07:07:03

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@nprofile…qfh3 Quite ambitious! I think minikube is a great starting point for understanding how to work with Kubernetes. The first things I’d look at are Pods and Deployments, as that’s what you’ll likely need first.
A colleague of me is running Kubernetes on 3 raspberry pis so it’s definitely possible :)

2024-12-01 09:49:21

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@nprofile…qfh3 What are you looking for, exactly? I’ve been wanting to write a k8s post series for a while now but just can’t find the time haha 🥲

2024-11-29 15:45:05

I’ve been using Openvibe for a few days now and I actually like the way it lets me use Bluesky & Mastodon in one app with a shared timeline.
I still generally prefer Mastodon, and I miss custom emojis in the app, but otherwise it seems like a cool app!
#mastodon #bluesky #openvibe

2024-11-27 10:28:41

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@nprofile…qfh3 100%! I still find the syntax a bit weird, but once you're used to them it's super convenient

2024-11-27 09:48:13

While I'm not the biggest Python fan[1], I do love these weird-looking one-liners in Python, and the general efficiency when programming in it.
[1]: https://kevingimbel.de/blog/2024/03/i-dont-like-python
#Python #DevOps #AWS
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/554/276/589/438/377/original/e80ebc4957164f80.png

2024-11-27 08:26:21

🔗 Just saved: „X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts“
Just fucked up, really.
#x #ownyourweb
"What is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, sp https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/

2024-11-27 08:25:52

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@nprofile…qfh3 thanks! I will give it a go, I got a Pi 5 at home and it's already running some connected services. Could be a nice Holiday project :D

2024-11-27 08:01:57

@nprofile…qfh3 hey! Are you hosting GoToSocial on a Raspberry Pi or on a real server? I just looked at the specs and wonder if it would be suitable to run on a Pi :D

2024-11-18 10:37:54

I made a thing! ✨
A SVG thingy to create antifa-flag like icons. Combine any two emojis into an icon :)
https://codepen.io/kevingimbel/pen/vYowBem
#css #svg #web #codepen
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/503/515/320/505/288/original/bb4fd3d8b251199a.png

2024-11-16 15:27:28

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@nprofile…qfh3 oh yes! Oo was such a good one, how could I forget!

2024-11-16 14:53:21

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@nprofile…qfh3 also -.- and -.-”

2024-11-16 14:53:08

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@nprofile…qfh3 I miss
o.o
ô.o
ò.ó
._.
Simpler times

2024-11-12 08:01:41

I can recommend to setup a filter for political themes if you - like me - are very much a person that gets depressed by world events easily.
This hides the content behind a sort-of CW (see second screenshot)
#mastodon #staysave #mentalhealth
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/468/924/096/524/743/original/f63fae18d94575de.png
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/468/928/311/286/061/original/bcddc67cc7842929.png

2024-10-25 09:28:24

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@npub1fm4…f7sx thanks!

2024-10-19 07:57:49

This whole #Wordpress mess is super annoying. I just spent 2 years moving all my content to WP. I really don’t want to migrate off again, but I also don’t want my website be caught in the middle of it all (getting an extension I use replaced by a WordPress fork with no notice).
Matt has destroyed my confidence in WordPress as a open-source system and I’m actively looking for alternatives.

2024-09-11 08:29:05

🇩🇪 Nächste Woche, am 18.09., halte ich einen Vortrag auf dem TechTalk Wiesbaden! 🎉
Es geht um Vulnerability Management in Kubernetes - der selbe Vortrag wie auf den Container Days!
Kommt vorbei, der Eintritt ist kostenlos. 🎟️
https://www.techtalk-wiesbaden.de/home.html
🏷️ #rmg #rheinmain #techtalk #wiesbaden #mainz #frankfurt #k8s #devops #secops #devsecops #platform

2024-08-28 08:19:29

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@npub1sh4…32nx thank you! That's super nice to hear! :)

2024-08-28 06:30:29

One week untill I'll be in Hamburg talking about Container Vulnerability Management in Kubernetes at #ContainerDays!
I'm super excited! 🎉
14:25 on stage K4!
https://www.containerdays.io/containerdays-conference-2024/agenda/

2024-08-15 07:06:18

🔗 Just saved: „Surveillance Watch“
A well made website showing global surveillance companies and who they work with/sell their services to. #surveillance #war #it #ai #privacy
👉 https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

2024-08-10 07:53:19

Not much happening right now, but here's this week's notes!
https://kevingimbel.de/blog/2024/08/week-36-prepping/

2024-08-09 19:04:30

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@npub1sh4…32nx same… and also got drafts lined up which I want to finish 🥲

2024-08-01 09:26:00

kevin.gimbel.dev is now built using @npub1z9m…rz2z 3.0.0-beta.1!
https://kevin.gimbel.dev/ops/
Also, I pushed the redesign I've been working on for some time! All a little brighter and fresher, and - as always - work in progress. :)

2024-08-01 06:45:33

Yay! @npub1z9m…rz2z v3.0.0-beta.1 is now available!
I've been using the 3.0.0 release since alpha.4 so I'm excited to move my websites to the first beta release!
https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta.1
#ssg #staticsite #webdev #nodejs

2024-07-08 16:08:46

Working on a re-design of kevin.gimbel.dev, here's a little WIP!
#11ty #eleventy #ssg #wordpress
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/751/730/509/692/235/original/3e058da9ef5b1400.png

2024-07-08 13:51:52

For some reason KeePassXC in Vivaldi on Fedora doesn't work and won't connect to the open DB. :thinking:

2024-07-04 18:04:32

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@npub1sh4…32nx nice write up, wonder if I can run this on my raspberry pi haha!

2024-06-26 14:22:49

New week, new supply chain attack!
Polyfill.io was taken-over by Funnull, a company from China now serving malware from the domains.
https://kevingimbel.de/blog/2024/06/polyfill-io-supply-chain-attack/

2024-06-17 07:13:21

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@npub1y9z…3ykm ... if only the AI could see the irony.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/630/715/121/353/747/original/3203a350895bbfd9.png

2024-06-12 18:57:29

I’ve been toying around more with #haskell and one thing I absolutely love is ranges:
['a'..'z']
gives a list with all English letters in it
[1..100]
gives a list with all numbers from 1 to 100
🤯

2024-06-11 08:09:01

TIL: There's a open source build of VSCode which removes all the telemetry and Microsoft stuff.
https://vscodium.com/

2024-05-29 08:14:01

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@npub1hg2…k372 ahh yes, everyone I know keeps complaining about teams haha

2024-05-29 08:11:45

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@npub1hg2…k372 oh no what did they do now??

2024-05-29 07:23:45

They be putting AI into everything, and they destroy years of trust.
https://kevingimbel.de/blog/2024/05/re-trust/

2024-05-18 08:15:16

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@npub1sh4…32nx maybe https://www.photoprism.app ?

2024-05-15 05:50:33

Just realised Markdown turns 20 this year! 1.0.1 was released by @npub1eee…e209 in December of 2004!
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

2024-05-14 12:08:43

I'm so glad people find my MermaidJS plugin useful 🤩
https://github.com/KevinGimbel/eleventy-plugin-mermaid
It's a little something I once did for my own website when it was still build with 11ty, and I'm glad others find it useful as well!
#11ty #oss #foss #javascript

2024-03-06 08:18:40

I'm running fail2ban on a small server and in the last two days there have been 1028 failed SSH login attempts.
I wholeheartedly hate running my own servers in this toxic place called the public internet >:(

2024-02-20 06:58:15

After writing a lot of weeknotes on my dev blog I finally have a _real_ tech blog post lined up covering the Raspberry Pi and VPN setup.
#blog #blogging #wp #11ty #RaspberryPi

2023-11-27 14:38:31

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If I was to have a (business) Linux PC again it would be a Tuxedo!
I've had one years ago and I loved it.
https://linuxrocks.online/@tuxedocomputers/111483010887071910

2023-11-15 08:49:11

Just released v4.0.0 of mktoc, my Table of Content generator for markdown files! 🚀
Available as binary and library - and on the Web thanks to WASM!
📦 Release: https://github.com/KevinGimbel/mktoc/releases/tag/v4.0.0
📦 crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/mktoc/4.0.0
🕸️ WASM: https://kevingimbel.github.io/webtoc/
#rust #binary #lib #cli #tableofcontent #markdown

2023-09-15 07:39:32

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@npub1hg2…k372 abonnierst du Hashtags? Wenn ja kann es daran liegen (hab das Problem auch)

2023-09-07 06:37:43

jq has a new home - and a new release!
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7
#jq #cli #tool #json #query