vknabel
vknabel
Valentin Knabel
Developer, cyclist, coffee nerd, human. Open Source, kindness, honesty, vegan. It is fine to be imperfect, as long as we are honest and have fun along the way.
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The story is told from the perspective of a young boy in ancient Rome who grows up in a brothel. Some intense topics are brought up and talked about. But a lot of it is left to the reader’s imagination. So, luckily, the most intense...
One of the most iconic species of Anthurium is undoubtedly the queen of Anthuriums: the Warocqueanum. With its long, tapering, and often dark leaves, especially adult specimens know how to make a grand impression. The leaves of the...
Featuring bright green to golden leaves with hints of red, the Philodendron Malay Gold is a classic representative of its kind – just brighter. For those who appreciate the color but not necessarily the growth form, alternatives such as...
The Syngonium Wendlandii is truly something special. With its deep green, velvety leaves, a silver stripe in the middle, and a relatively compact size, it sets itself apart from its counterparts. As an alternative, there is also the...
Those in search of an Anthurium characterized by uncomplicated care will find success with the Anthurium Gracile, and will be rewarded by its affordable price. The leaves of Anthurium Gracile are bright, thin, and feel somewhat leathery....
In 2021 I started working on the current Go implementation of my own experimental programming language called Lithia. Now it is available in version v0.0.19. Infrequently I also wrote some words about it on this blog. It has been...
There are already many websites offering plant care tips. The articles tend to be very long but contain little relevant information. Almost every plant is described as needing bright, indirect light and as being unable to tolerate root...
My system language on my linux machine is set to English, but as a German raised with 24-hour days, I simply cannot wrap my head around to get the 12-hours am/pm format intuitively. By the time I learned that am is in the morning and pm...
Acorn is an application deployment framework for k8s, that tries to simplify instead of introducing another layer of indirection. I won’t cover all details and problems it tries to solve here, instead I’d like to share some experiences...
Did you ever want to access the contents of an auxiliary file from within your repository to access the contents at runtime? This file could include some static settings like the version of the application, translations for user-facing...
Today I stumbled upon Atomic Design. It is some kind of architectural pattern for the user interface. The goal is to build a reusable UI that is easy to understand and maintain. It starts with atoms, which represent the smallest units of...
With OPA you implement decisions of policies, not their enforcement. This avoids confusion between multiple servers that might come from different implementations of the policies. The decisions themselves are implemented using the Regi...
You can override Go values with ldflags during the build. That way, you can inject values like the current version, build date or the current commit hash. go build \ -ldflags "-X 'github.com/metal-stack/v.Version=$(VERSION)' \ -X...
All the hosted Kubernetes solutions I know of want you to pay roughly 10$ pre month for each load balancer. If you currently don’t expect much traffic, but want to play around with k8s or if many docker-compose files don’t fit your needs...
I have been playing around with minikube for quite some time now. Though as I run minikube on my Mac, I experienced multiple bugs regarding accessing the cluster and it’s published ports. From my perspective Kind works much better, is...