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✏️ These are my blog posts. Visit the archive for an yearly overview.

Attempt at Visualizing Eve Room (and Weather) Metrics in Grafana

Some weeks ago, I sort of discovered this Grafana dashboard from a Hackerspace here in Eindhoven. Since then, I’ve been wanting to create such an “observability” dashboard for the microclimate inside my home, and also balcony. I already own quite a few temperature and air quality sensors, so it can’t be that hard - I thought.

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Trending File Browser

In July 2017, something unexpected happened: I opened the trending page on the GitHub interface, under the Go language and saw my own project there. File Browser - then still called File Manager -, was trending in first place under the Go language!

At the time, that allowed the project to go from around 200 stars to over 700 during that week. Nowadays, this project I started long ago has over 22k GitHub stars ⭐️. Despite no longer maintaining it, I’m grateful to the current maintainers for continuing the project.

Screenshot of GitHub Trending Page

No Space Left on Device

I think that most of us that deal with Docker have, at some point, being confronted with the message “no space left on device”. Well, that is what happened to me this morning: I woke up, looked at my phone, and had three alerts since 2am that there was no space left on device. Miniflux was down because PostgreSQL goes automatically into recovery mode, but other that than, everything was still up and running.

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