Recent content on Sebastian's blog
After the renovations in my home, I had the luxuryt to be able to wire the whole house (2x ethernet drops per room, in addition to cctv ethernet drops etc) and to set up a little network cabinet to hide away all the equipment - aka homelab. Over the years, I’ve upgraded / changed my hardware and I wanted to share a bit my setup. gear I’ve a small homelab at home, running several QoL…
In the process of updating this blog, I found that several of the tech blogs had not only a /now, but some also had a page that summarizes the hardware and software they use. Hence this page! Hardware SFF build (components + Ncase M1) MacBook Pro M1 2020 (work) Monitors: Dell Alienware AW3430DW - my main monitor Dell S2721QS - a secondary monitor that sits rotated vertically on the left Realforce…
This is a /now page, and if you have your own site, you should make one, too! It will tell what I am focused on at this point in my life. gaming Currently playing the early access game No Rest for the Wicked on PC/Steam, a relatively unique ARPG. I’ve completed the main story line and now working on the end-game. When needing something a bit less intense, you can find me diving in Helldivers…
Renewed admiration for our foodpanda riders I recently decided to do a rider shift - both from a desire to dogfood our rider app, but more importantly, to better understand our riders’ day-to-day work, flows, and potential struggles. It was very humbling. I decided to do the session on my motorbike, which made the experience more relevant (as a most of our delivery folks use a motorbike) but also…
This blog was created quite some time ago but has not received any update in ages! One of the reasons behind was the fact that although it was fun to create, the setup to create new posts was fragile and required a number of ruby / npm packages in order to generate the site. At some point in 2015 I changed distro to Archlinux and procrastinated installing the required setup. Well, fast forward few…
Like the majority of the people nowadays, I interact with a computer most of my day - either for work or for leisure. Anything that makes working with a computer more comfortable or healthier can make a big difference. A year ago I managed to get one of these standing desks and I started looking a bit more on the keyboard side of things. I started reading more and more on /r/MechanicalKeyboards…
I work daily with an editor and I’ve already shared with you guys my love for Sublime Text. This doesn’t mean I do not try and get interested in other editors. I actually follow and contribute (ok - only once so far) to the Brackets editor which I found very interesting but at the end not entirely covering my use cases/workflow. Recently Github released their own editor - Atom. I…
Because Jekyll only serves static html pages, I need to use another component/system, that will handle and store the comments for me. Disqusis one of the different solutions out there and is definitely the one that handles the most traffic in the web (interesting read How Disqus Went Realtime With 165K Messages Per Second And Less Than .2 Seconds Latency). How to setup Disqus in your Jekyll blog…
I use Sublime Text 3 in a daily basis, and I’ve grown used to certain plugins/setup that make it much more productive for me. Getting it (Ubuntu) Option 1: use 3rd party PPA repository: 1 2 3 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer Option 2: install from source 1 2 wget…
As mentioned previously, I wanted to write a post on how this blog has been built. This website does not contain any interactive content: everything is static and fast - extremely fast. This is to focus on content rather than getting distracted by fancy visual effects. This blog is built from scratch using Jekyll. As described in their website: Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site…
Hey there! This is my personal blog that will help me journal my adventure learning things on the new front-end stuff! I’m an Engineer leader who loves technichal challenges. Based in Singapore, but sometimes found in Europe from time to time. During my spare time, I like coding, playing around with new technologies, practice boxing. Find the latest on what’s going on in my life in my…
One of the caveats of using “vanilla” Jekyll (vs using other tools that are built on top of Jekyll such as Octopress or JekyllBootstrap) is that there is some plumbing to do to add things that are “expected” on a blog engine, such as an RSS feed. An RSS feed comes handy for people that want to follow your site and consolidate everything into an RSS reader (such as feedly).
Hello all! This is my second blogging attempt. One of the reasons (among others) I stopped blogging back then was the pain associated to maintaining a server and the services where the blog was running on (LAMP + Wordpress). The web has been in a revolution lately, and new technologies have been swarming and being developed. HTML5, css, Javascript, have evolved to highs no-one could have imagined…