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🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must-reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 📚 Articles Worth Your Time Stop Building Internal Tools Nobody Wants: A Platform Engineer’s Guide Why “Normal” Engineers Are the Key to Great Teams - IEEE Spectrum Revenge of the junior developer | Sourcegraph Blog Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way | Microsoft Learn 🛠️ New Tools & Announcements composecraft/composecraft xpipe-io/xpipe: Access your entire server infrastructure from your local desktop Ray-D-Song/goread: cli epub reader written in Go Thanks for reading! ...

From time to time I test new extensions for my browsers (currently it’s Microsoft Edge), and of course work with web require a lot of extensions in modern times. So here is the list of extensions, which installed constantly in my browsers, as most of them cross-platform or can be installed for all Chrome-based web browsers. Redirector Chrome Web Store: url Example of confiuguration uBlock Origin Chrome Web Store: url Raindrop.io Chrome Web Store: url ...

Это продолжение третьей части. ArgoCD Let’s install argocd cli tool first brew install argocd Create new namespace for ArgoCD kubectl create namespace argocd Deploy ArgoCD manifest kubectl apply -n argocd -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml Get admin password from pod kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d Authorize argocd cli app ARGO_PWD=$(kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d) argocd login localhost:8080 --username admin --password $ARGO_PWD --insecure Get access to UI via kubectl port-forward ...

Just short note about it, as from time to time I need to increase volume size. Part 1 - In host system Get list of VMs Get-VM Turn off the VM. $vmName = "YourVirtualMachineName" Stop-VM -Name "$vmName" Expand the disk Get-VHD -VMName $vmName Resize-VHD -Path "VHD_PATH" -SizeBytes 100GB Check the changes Get-VHD -VMName $vmName Start the VM & connect to VM Start-VM -Name "$vmName" Connect-VM -VMName "$vmName" Part 2 - Inside VM Install guest tools for VM (if it wasn’t done before) ...

One interesting article about experience with replacing daily meetings to daily journals from Marco “Efesto” Polita. Here it’s just copy-pasted article about his thoughts, which I found very interesting for myself. How do you keep people connected if they don’t see each other at the daily? This concern was present also at the introduction of the journal and is not related specifically to removing the remote daily itself but rather to the whole remote working approach. ...