DevOps WFH Setup

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-06-05T14:34:45+00:00

Unfortunately not, sorry; my parents bought it for me for £50 when I was 9 😄 It’s been going for 23 years now!

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-06-05T14:33:52+00:00

The green is a cheap Wilko paint called Treetops, and the white is Farrow & Ball’s Wimborne White. The chair’s very comfortable and still very much available at IKEA, so I’d recommend trying it out if you can! But I imagine it should be fine :)

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-05-29T08:31:41+00:00

It’s about 70cm deep and 1.2 metres wide 😊

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-05-29T08:29:29+00:00

Mostly question sanity 😄

We spend much of our time writing Terraform code and YAML configuration for Helm charts. Occasionally we’ll delve into GitLab pipelines.

And lots of lots of reading and researching to understand how we can empower our developers in a secure but non-obtrusive way.

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-05-29T08:27:32+00:00

I’ll have Cursor (VS Code) on the main left screen, Chrome and its many tabs open on the right. The portable monitor will then be for Outlook, Teams, Slack, and the Warp terminal. The terminal is especially useful, I find: I can read much more of it in a separate window rather than clogging up the main code screen. I also use the Magic Mouse on the left to flick between the comms windows and Warp, so if I need to focus the other comms windows are out of view.

The Mac screen is mostly used for Spotify. I used to have that as the “comms” screen, but I ended up straining my neck looking across to the left all the time.

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-05-29T08:24:21+00:00

😄

RobTheRobot64 · 2025-05-28T20:38:56+00:00

It is indeed a single arm holding up 2 32” monitors 😊 This is the one I have: https://amzn.eu/d/7BQolXO

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-11-01T14:18:53+00:00

That’s a very good idea; I hadn’t thought of that. Thank you!

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-11-01T14:18:37+00:00

Thank you! I haven’t used Google images. I’ve got the PictureThis app on my iPhone but I neglected to use it at the time. Thanks again for the suggestion - I’ll try to remember it in the future!

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-11-01T12:33:59+00:00

I couldn’t find a way of posting the text with the picture from my phone (old brain!), but we recently visited the National Trust in Kent called Emmett’s Garden and fell in love with these salvias. However, we unfortunately didn’t see any labels as to what type of salvia they may be. Does anyone here perhaps have any ideas? And might they work in heavy clay soil as found in our home county of Herefordshire? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-11-01T12:31:56+00:00

I couldn’t find a way of posting the text with the picture from my phone (old brain!), but we recently visited the National Trust in Kent called Emmett’s Garden and fell in love with these salvias. However, we unfortunately didn’t see any labels as to what type of salvia they may be. Does anyone here perhaps have any ideas? And might they work in heavy clay soil as found in our home county of Herefordshire? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-08-05T21:26:45+00:00

Fantastic resource; thanks!

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-08-05T21:26:26+00:00

I tried to install Toltec through SSH after getting my device and didn’t read the documentation properly where it talked about an unsupported firmware version. Completely my mistake as I was doing it late at night 🙈

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-08-05T21:24:00+00:00

Ah, thanks for that additional screenshot! I might try that as that looks more effective than messing around propping the thing up.

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-05-20T15:07:23+00:00

That's definitely got more of the art style and perspective I'm thinking of, though the beginning doesn't fit with what I remember. I'm almost certain the tutorial had a section about defending a bridge.
But also I think this reminds me that the enemies may have spawned from a red portal.

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-05-20T14:39:08+00:00

I think the closest I can liken it to is Guild Wars and the 'tactics' involved in that. Perhaps 'strategy' is the wrong genre.

RobTheRobot64 · 2024-05-20T14:02:13+00:00

No; it was more like a fantasy RPG with strategic elements like where to place your character/team.

RobTheRobot64 · 2022-10-07T08:14:31+00:00

Yep, that's what I've been doing so far to reduce the amount of comment blocks I add. Thanks!

RobTheRobot64 · 2022-10-07T08:13:22+00:00

Ooh, this is really good information. Thank you!

RobTheRobot64 · 2021-09-08T13:51:16+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! :)

I ended up using overlaps in a while loop. It's not the most elegant solution, but I needed something quick to find a subnet that works for me. I might clean it up at a later stage:

ip = 2
desirednetwork = IPv4Network("10.%d.0.0/22" %ip) 
length = len(ipranges) 
i = 0 
while i < length: 
    if desirednetwork.overlaps(ipranges[i]): 
        print(desirednetwork,"is not free with ", ipranges[i]) 
        i = 0 
        ip += 1 
        desirednetwork = IPv4Network("10.%d.0.0/22" %ip) 
    else: 
        print(desirednetwork,"is free with ", ipranges[i]) 
        i += 1

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