I've installed Ubuntu again. I had been distro hopping for a little while, but when all is said and done, Ubuntu simply has that homely quality that none of the other distros have, in my opinion. I fired up Ubuntu and I felt like I was where I belonged. The only caveat is that the Steam snap sucks.

London! Look up over The Shard! #Superman is in theaters July 11.

I finally got around to looking at my photos from last weekend, and well here's mine of the Moon and Venus. This was taken with Lumix GX80, with a 45-150mm zoom lens, with the only additional stability offered by leaning on my sister in law's shoulder. Not too bad I say!

"Oi! Can't stand there mate!" - Yesterday at St James Park #london. It was absolutely beautiful in the frosty morning.

Definitely glad I spent the time at the weekend updating my setup to use ghostty/starship/chezmoi/helix over the weekend. When I booted into my work laptop this morning it superfast switching from all my old tools to the new ones. I'm loving the new way of doing things.

Back to work today, and I'm looking forward to trying my new terminal setup in anger. * Terminal: ghostty.org * Shell: zsh * Prompt: starship.rs * Sync: chezmoi.io

I really love Ubuntu server, but I'm annoyed that it doesn't have Podman 5.x in 24.04, so here are my options, in order of least to most hassle: * Upgrade to 24.10 * Install Fedora Server instead * Package up Podman 5.x into Ubuntu 24.04. Part of me wants to try Fedora server, but I don't know...

Here's my current Fedora setup, in full. That's Ghostty, Starship and Helix all configured with very little actual changes from the base

Once again I am sold on another low config tool for my Linux and MacOS needs, and this time it's starship.rs. I originally thought it was complicated, but the $all variable in the format makes it super easy to tweak your prompt. Give it a go!

Why am I only now learning about podman and quadlet? I've been using ridiculous tooling to deploy and manage my stacks, when all I really need is to drop files in /etc/containers/systemd and then I can manage everything easily with systemctl.

Thanks to @latenightlinux.bsky.social, especially the Linux Dev Time, I have discovered www.chezmoi.io, an incredibly easy way to keep your dotfiles in sync between machines, using git as a backend, and written in Go.

My current Ghostty config. It's really that simple to configure, and there's not much more that you really need

I feel like I've been very Ubuntu-pilled recently. I've been getting frustrated that even the most recent Ubuntu versions don't really have up to date apps. For instance, 24.04 only comes with Podman 4.9, despite 5.0 being available at the time of release.

I really appreciate this new trend for Low Config applications. Helix and Ghostty are great examples. They come packaged with a whole bunch of themes and sensible defaults, to the point that my config files for both are literally just the theme names (and font in Ghostty). Makes my life much easier!

Ghostty is definitely the best terminal application you'll use on MacOS or Linux. Their killer feature is simply using OS defaults for everything where possible and is fully platform native. No need to mess with config to get the basics done. My config file literally only contains the theme and font

This video stirred a surprising amount of controversy on Twitter. So I want to talk about how to think about the fit of men's pants. 🧵 www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/vide...

I have finally come to realise where my issues have been with Ansible. I was trying to create a single mono-playbook which would run tasks across multiple servers (only two in my case), but it would cause a number of issues

Having good fun today with Dockge. Ansible drops compose.yaml files into a Dockge directory, runs docker compose up, and walks away. From that point I can update, restart and check logs of containers without issue.

I understand that some people watching #strictly want Pete to stay in because they prefer to watch someone improve, but the facts are that Pete has been floundering for the last 3/4 weeks and hasn't seen any improvement at all! All the while Tasha is getting better all the time!

Today my noodling with Semaphore UI continues. I can combine a webhook with an ansible playbook to automatically create things for me. E.g, I could create the btrfs subvolume, the mount it in the right place, configure DNS and forwarding proxy to the container... But how do I kick that off?

I feel like I need a tool for managing the storage on my Raspberry Pi. I'm using Portainer for managing my containers, which is backed by a BTRFS volume. It would be rather snazzy to have a similar web interface for configuring my subvolumes, mountpoints and, most usefully, snapshotting and backups

I don't know who needs this cleaning hack, but here it is. My fave tool in a hard water area is an old credit/debit card. It removes limescale easily and works well with soap scum too. This Catit water fountain lid was coated in limescale, but 30s with the old Sky viewing card got rid of most of it.

The #firefox subrebbit is the absolute worst when it comes to learned helplessness. Every time there's an update, countless people turn up at the sub asking exactly the same, already answered questions, which would have been solved by actually looking in the settings.

I did that thing again where I switched back from Ubuntu to Windows 11. With the newborn, I've been playing games in the living room using Steam Link, and it just works better with a Windows host.

#strictly I don't know who has been keeping Pete in the competition for the last few weeks, but they need their eyes checked!

Perfect way to spend my Sunday. Cat on my lap, baby strapped to my chest, and a glob of chocolate on my chin

Has anyone noticed in #strictly that JB is doing *so* much better with Lauren instead of Amy? I love Amy to bits, but Lauren has really taken him to another level.

Surely such texts should be using Git or other source control repositories, with protected editing and pull requests...

I find it quite interesting that many #opensource projects haven't at least set up their accounts here. There's no Firefox, Ubuntu, Fedora presence here. VSCode, which absolutely smashes it with YouTube Shorts (and TikToks I guess?) also is interesting in its absence.

It's hackathon week this week at work, and I've gotta say that everything is going swimmingly. I was struggling to find a project, so I picked something someone asked me to do offhandedly a few months back, and I've realised it unblocks something completely unrelated.

Disk check on my first newly installed Nas drive is complete. I feel happy to put the second disk in, but may wait until the end of the week. I wish I'd never picked ironwolf last time. WD reds seem so much better right now.

Sometimes I steal the image of other creatures with my magic light absorbing box. This is one of my favourite recent pictures. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #m43

This photo legit made me stop scrolling through my feed. I can only one day hope to capture such an incredible image.

I'm not much of a hardware guy, but I have a nas at home which has been giving me trouble for a while. Running hot yet slow for a really long time. I've just replaced one of the disks which was reporting as bad for the last few days, and now it's cool and fast.

I remember 20 years ago when #halflife2 was released. At the start of my third term at uni I took £40 of my student loan out of my bank account and put it in an envelope with hl2 written on the front. Almost a year later when it was released, I was sat outside Game at 7am to get my hands on a copy.

glen powell's nipple:

Waiting for the big UK news outlets and government departments to move over here, now that X is due to a state-run propaganda machine. There's no way they can stay there... Can they?

Reminder if you're new to #Bluesky, you can use your own domain as your handle. Go into settings, click on Change Handle, and then click on "I have my own domain". From there you'll see a dialogue like this one where you can configure your domain.

I have three domains which all point to the same site. They are: matty.digital supermatt.net mames.dev I'm not sure which I want to be my primary identity. I use SuperMatt as my in-game name, and it's also my GitHub username, but I feel I could do more with the other two domains

One of the things that's impressing me about @bsky.app is the ability to use DNS verification for accounts. I'd love to see this extended in some way that a user could be `@journo1.newssite.com` without needing a DNS entry per user. That'd 100% help with preventing impersonation.

In order to interact with whatever algorithm Bluesky has, here's a little bit about me. Professionally I am an SRE doing a lot of work with Kubernetes & Prometheus at Yelp. Personally, I like to play Quake Champions too much, and am currently automating my server/desktop installs with Ansible.