Alex Schiessl

I'm in I.T. since 1984 when I started my education to become an I.T. engineer. So I've seen many things in I.T. and did my share in bringing I.T. forward.

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Switching to Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W for monitoring...

Nov 28, 20213 min read 44 views

... or better to show the monitoring website on my monitoring monitor. So recently I saw some review videos of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W SoC. All were more or less ecstatic about the performance over the old version. So I decided I want one, too....

Looking on k8s through a Lens…

Nov 14, 20215 min read 3 views

... or better with a tool call Lens which can be found on k8slens.dev. Ok, so here is another chapter in my k8s adventures. This time it is somewhat positive. Let’s start from the beginning. Recently I watched a video "How To Replace Docker With ner...

Perseverance, Analytics, Search expressions and a little luck.

Nov 1, 20217 min read 5 views

Pair perseverance, some good analytic skills, the ability to build the right search expressions and a little luck and you most likely get a success story. So as many of you already know, Apple put some speedy new hardware out on the marketplace, comi...

2004 and my Bail Bond Web Scraper

Oct 10, 20218 min read 8 views

A few days ago Youtube suggested a video to me how to make a "Build a Web Scraper (super simple!)". This reminded me, that I have to write one more story from my past, where I think I was a pioneer. But let's put it into context. So the huge Online ...

My love hate relationship with k8s continues

Sep 25, 20217 min read 26 views

Yup, another chapter in my love hate relationship is topic of this blog post. So, a few days ago, exactly on the morning of my birthday, I wanted to check the temperature at my node-red driven Weather panel. But, "page cannot be found"! So, naturally...

My story of an IM Chat bot from 2002...

Sep 5, 20218 min read 4 views

Back from vacation, let's get to my story for this blog post. So in 2002 I was still working for this big Online Service Provider and had just successfully introduced CVS to the release process of our software/content projects. This success got me ...