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Ergaster is the personal website of Thibault Martin (Thib), a nonprofit strategist and open source program manager at the Matrix.org Foundation.

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News ScienceDaily 2 months ago
Homo ergaster
Homo ergaster ("working man") is an extinct hominid species (or subspecies, according to some authorities) which lived throughout eastern and southern Africa between 1.9 to 1.4 million years ago with the advent of the lower Pleistocene and the cooling of
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Blog 5 months ago
I realized that A cheap VPS is a good front
I have a server at home. It runs a Kubernetes cluster and a few services. I want to expose them to the Internet, so I can e.g. share public links from my Nextcloud, or synchronize my Kobo reader with Grimmory . But I don't want to expose my home IP to the
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Yubikeys are convenient for Linux login
I got myself a Yubikey recently, and I wanted to use it as a nice convenience to: Grant me sudo privileges Unlock my session Decrypt my LUKS-encrypted disk I've only managed to do the first two, since they both rely on Linux Pluggable Authentication Modul
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Minikube mounts volumes as root
When I have to play with a container image I have never met before, I like to deploy it on a test cluster to poke and prod it. I usually did that on a k3s cluster, but recently I've moved to Minikube to bring my test cluster with me when I'm on the go. Mi
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Pagefind does great client-side search
I post more and more content on my website. What was visible at glance then is now more difficult to look for. I wanted to implement search, but it is a static website. It means that everything is built once, and then published somewhere as final, immutab
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Blog 6 months ago
I realized that Niri can have gorgeous animation
I was a huge fan of Niri already. It's a scrolling tiling window manager. Roughly: When I open an app it takes the full height and a pre-configured width on the screen. When I open more apps and the screen was already full, it pushes the existing apps off
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Animated AVIFs make lightweight videos
Sometimes in my posts I need to show a screen recording. Videos can get heavy rapidly and take a lot of time to load. I also write my posts in markdown which has syntax to include images: !Alt text describing the image(path to the image) Using that syntax
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Kubernetes can give you a shell into a crashing container
When a container crashes, it can be for several reasons. Sometimes the log won't tell you much about why the container crashed, and you can't get a shell into that container because... it has already crashed. It turns out that kubectl debug can let you do
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven
I love Markdown with all my heart. It's a markup language so simple to understand that even people who are not software engineers can use it in a few minutes. The flip side of that coin if that Markdown is limited. It can let you create various title leve
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Blog 6 months ago
TIL that Git can locally ignore files
When editing markdown, I love using Helix (best editor in the world). I rely on three language servers to help me do it: rumdl to check markdown syntax and enforce the rules decided by a project marksman to get assistance when creating links harper-ls to
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