Matthew Ames
@mames.dev
Site Reliability Engineer, linux, Quake player, causal photographer
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Matthew Ames
@mames.dev
· Oct 27
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.
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.
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.
The only caveat is that the Steam snap sucks.
October 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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.
The only caveat is that the Steam snap sucks.
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!
January 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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!
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.
January 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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
* Terminal: ghostty.org
* Shell: zsh
* Prompt: starship.rs
* Sync: chezmoi.io
January 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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
* 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...
* 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...
January 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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...
* 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
January 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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!
Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt
Starship is the minimal, blazing fast, and extremely customizable prompt for any shell! Shows the information you need, while staying sleek and minimal. Quick installation available for Bash, Fish, ZS...
starship.rs
January 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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.
December 29, 2024 at 10:10 PM
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.
chezmoi - chezmoi
Manage your dotfiles across multiple machines, securely.
www.chezmoi.io
December 28, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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
December 28, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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.
December 27, 2024 at 5:54 PM
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!
December 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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
December 26, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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
Reposted by Matthew Ames
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...
www.tiktok.com/@wisdm8/vide...
Honestly just wear a northface puffer
TikTok video by Wisdom Kaye
www.tiktok.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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...
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
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
December 5, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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
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.
From that point I can update, restart and check logs of containers without issue.
December 3, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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.
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!
December 2, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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?
But how do I kick that off?
December 2, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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?
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
It would be rather snazzy to have a similar web interface for configuring my subvolumes, mountpoints and, most usefully, snapshotting and backups
November 30, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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
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.
November 30, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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.
November 29, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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.
November 25, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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.