Developing in Toolbox containers

Download audio The mess that is a development setup You might be running something like openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap or MicroOS for your day to day development. Traditionally the workflow involves installing all sorts of tools you might need, enabling fun development repos like devel-perl or app-specific repos and tweaking the system configuration to your liking. Sooner or later you will learn about the existence of --allow-vendor-change and how priorities work....

February 19, 2021 · 5 min · Liv Dywan

Get started with openQA development

Download audio I want to develop openQA openQA is a framework to run system-level tests that is used for openSUSE, Fedora and others in a way that uses a serial console or mouse and keyboard input to interact with tests. No support from the software toolkit used is required to make this work. For the purposes of this article I’m going to assume you have a basic idea about openQA....

February 16, 2021 · 6 min · Liv Dywan

Setup a blog with GitLab Pages and Hugo

Download audio Blogging the lazy way Note: This little guide is focussing on GitLab, you can also setup a blog with GitHub Pages if that’s your preference. Allow me to introduce you to GitLab Pages. In short, you get a free git repo here with support for Hugo which is a static website generator based on Markdown. And the end result will show up on username.gitlab.io without your having to worry about domains or hosting....

February 12, 2021 · 6 min · Liv Dywan

Setup OBS Studio to record a video call

Download audio Let’s preserve that precious knowledge Virtual workshops are a thing. And because they are virtual, it’s easy to make a recording that you can share with everyone interested. Or maybe you’re organizing a video call and some of those beautiful people can’t make it. Let’s see how to do this with no prior knowledge. Get OBS Studio up and running flatpak install com.obsproject.Studio Since I like to keep my base system as lean as possible I’m quite happy to use the flatpak here....

February 10, 2021 · 5 min · Liv Dywan