This was the conclusion to a little practical exercise we held to get everyone to try somethingoutside of their comfort zone.

Back in September, we had a little workshop on building up an impractical project with an older generation raspberry pi to show a few things:

• Older generation computers can be useful
• x86 is not the only game in town
• GUIs are not always needed
• There are other Linux distributions
• Building an appliance system is not hard
• Serial consoles are useful
• etc.

All said, this was a fun project, at least I had fun.

This was a virtual meeting to have a quick talk about rootless containers and do what should be a relatively simple exercise in using podman in a rootless setting and running a kanboard container.

Needless to say, it went sideways a bit, but it was a fun exercise in an environment where making mistakes are just that, mistakes. We made it most of the way through the exercise, but did not get to the point of having the user level systemd manage the container. Maybe next time.

After some delays, we finally had a technical meeting. It was a little shorter then usual, but it was an easing back into a more technical program.

What did we talk about? Containers (surprise).

Specifically using podman and containers.

There were even slides. It was a bit short, but it illustrated using podman and a asciidoctor container to process the presentation with asciidoctor-revealjs. I also mentioned that there is a container that is used to build the website.

This site needs some minor tweaking and possibly a new theme. I’m not too concerned with the general look, but I want it to be clean and not busy. You should not want to stab your eyes out when looking at it or reading it.

I am also considering going back through all of the content and retagging it so that it can be viewed by topic rather than the linear stream it currently is. This is probably a lot of work and will take a bit of time, but the early posts are mostly from a mailing list and not really interesting beyond providing a history. It would be nice to carve out any technical items and start adding presentations we do as well.

As I review the site, I am seeing a few things that no longer work as they did in the past. I am not surprised though as the hugo engine has had a significant number of updates and the theme has been updated as well. Some configuration items are no longer valid, there are new ones to learn about, and the theme has had a number of revisions.

One thing in particular is that if you visit the main page, you get a page on a jupyter talk from 2016 instead of a list of posts. I do not know why yet, but will attempt to get it fixed. I love mysteries! I do not love things that change for what appear to be arbitrary reasons.