My folks and I used to use Hangouts. However, because that’s being deprecated, I had to find an alternative. Taking control of my chat data is a bonus.
I tried Rocketchat but for whatever reason so I just didn’t like it very much. Ended up doing some more research and found Mattermost.
Mattermost is great. It’s basically a slack clone and has a Jitsi plugin to allow for anonymous video calls. Read More...
I stopped using Lastpass as my password manager because I had found Bitwarden. I’m using bitwarden_rs which is another opensource implementation of the already opensource Bitwarden.
I really like the the design of the Chrome extensions and the Android app for it. It has all the features I want: auto-fill in Chrome, auto-fill on Android and 2FA.
Now is it safe to self-host a password manager? I can’t say I know more about server security than folks who run the public password managers, but I know enough to setup firewalls and use HTTPS. Read More...
Added some stuff:
Helmsman: This is a way to managed Helm Charts as Code to version control charts and their versions you wish to deploy. Monitoring: Setup Telegraf on my hosts, InfluxDB to run in K8s for metrics data storage, and Grafana for visualization of this data. I’ll make a post about my Grafana dashboards later. Statping: Wanted to have some sort of system to alert me if my public services go down but since this runs in my K8s too, if my server goes down, this would too. Read More...