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In random order:
-* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
-* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
-* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
+* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
+* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
-* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
-* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
-* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
-* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
+* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
+* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
+* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
+* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
+* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
+* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
+* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
+* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* Raku Fundamentals; Moritz Lenz; Apress
-* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
+* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
-* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
-* Effective Java; Joshua Bloch; Addison-Wesley Professional
-* Leanring eBPF; Liz Rice; O'Reilly
-* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
-* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
-* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
-* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
+* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
+* The DevOps Handbook; Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis; Audible
+* Amazon Web Services in Action; Michael Wittig and Andreas Wittig; Manning Publications
+* DevOps And Site Reliability Engineering Handbook; Stephen Fleming; Audible
* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
-* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* The Pragmatic Programmer; David Thomas; Addison-Wesley
-* Programming Ruby 3.3 (5th Edition); Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas; The Pragmatic Bookshelf
+* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
+* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
+* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom;
* Polished Ruby Programming; Jeremy Evans; Packt Publishing
-* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
-* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
-* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
-* Raku Recipes; J.J. Merelo; Apress
-* Ultimate Go Notebook; Bill Kennedy
-* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
-* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
-* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
-* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
-* Kubernetes Cookbook; Sameer Naik, Sébastien Goasguen, Jonathan Michaux; O'Reilly
-* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
-* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
-* 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them; Teiva Harsanyi; Manning Publications
+* Perl New Features; Joshua McAdams, brian d foy; Perl School
* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup;
-* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
-* 97 things every SRE should know; Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo; O'Reilly
-* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson
+* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
+* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
+* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
+* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+* Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale; David N. Blank-Edelman; eBook
+* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
* Chaos Engineering - System Resiliency in Practice; Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones; eBook
+* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
+* Go Brain Teasers - Exercise Your Mind; Miki Tebeka; The Pragmatic Programmers
+* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
* Tmux 2: Productive Mouse-free Development; Brain P. Hogan; The Pragmatic Programmers
-* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
-* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
+* The KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) Book; Nigel Poulton
* The Kubernetes Book; Nigel Poulton; Unabridged Audiobook
-* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
+* Data Science at the Command Line; Jeroen Janssens; O'Reilly
+* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
+* Hands-on Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus; Joel Bastos, Pedro Araujo; Packt
+* Terraform Cookbook; Mikael Krief; Packt Publishing
## Technical references
I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things. The books are in random order:
-* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
-* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
-* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley
-* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
-* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
* Go: Design Patterns for Real-World Projects; Mat Ryer; Packt
+* Relayd and Httpd Mastery; Michael W Lucas
* Implementing Service Level Objectives; Alex Hidalgo; O'Reilly
+* Groovy Kurz & Gut; Joerg Staudemeier; O'Reilly
+* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
+* BPF Performance Tools - Linux System and Application Observability, Brendan Gregg; Addison Wesley
+* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
## Self-development and soft-skills books
In random order:
-* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
-* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
-* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
+* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
+* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
* 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know; Camille Fournier; Audiobook
-* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
-* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
-* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
-* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
-* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
-* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
-* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
+* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
+* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
+* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
+* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
+* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
-* Search Inside Yourself - The Unexpected path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace); Chade-Meng Tan, Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn; HarperOne
-* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
-* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* Buddah and Einstein walk into a Bar; Guy Joseph Ale, Claire Bloom; Blackstone Publishing
+* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
+* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
-* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite
-* Slow Productivity; Cal Newport; Penguin Random House
-* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
-* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
-* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
-* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
+* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
+* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
+* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
* The Good Enough Job; Simone Stolzoff; Ebury Edge
-* Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track; Will Larson; Audiobook
-* Getting Things Done; David Allen
-* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
-* Eat That Frog; Brian Tracy
-* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
* The Courage to Be Disliked; Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga; Audiobook
-* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
+* Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction; Susan Blackmore; Oxford Uiversity Press
* Influence without Authority; A. Cohen, D. Bradford; Wiley
-* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
+* Coders at Work - Reflections on the craft of programming, Peter Seibel and Mitchell Dorian et al., Audiobook
* The Phoenix Project - A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping your Business Win; Gene Kim and Kevin Behr; Trade Select
-* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
-* The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups; Gergely Orosz; Audiobook
+* Never Split the Difference; Chris Voss, Tahl Raz; Random House Business
+* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
+* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
+* Getting Things Done; David Allen
* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
-* The Obstacle Is The Way; Ryan Holiday; Profile Books Ltd
+* 101 Essays that change the way you think; Brianna Wiest; Audiobook
+* Solve for Happy; Mo Gawdat (RE-READ 1ST TIME)
+* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
+* Meditation for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman, Audiobook
+* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
+* Ultralearning; Anna Laurent; Self-published via Amazon
[Here are notes of mine for some of the books](../notes/index.md)
@@ -146,30 +146,30 @@ In random order:
Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only. In random order:
-* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
+* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
* The Well-Grounded Rubyist Video Edition; David. A. Black; O'Reilly Online
-* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
-* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
+* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
+* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...;
+* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
+* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
+* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
-* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc.
+* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
+* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
* AWS Immersion Day; Amazon; 1-day interactive online training
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option, I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
+* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen
-* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
-* Developing IaC with Terraform (with Live Lessons); O'Reilly Online
-* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2-day on-site training
-* Cloud Operations on AWS - Learn how to configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot your AWS environments; 3-day online live training with labs; Amazon
-* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3-day on-site training
## Technical guides
These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very useful. in random order:
-* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
-* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
* How CPUs work at https://cpu.land
+* Raku Guide at https://raku.guide
+* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
## Podcasts
@@ -177,28 +177,28 @@ These are not whole books, but guides (smaller or larger) which I found very use
In random order:
-* Pratical AI
+* Wednesday Wisdom
* Cup o' Go [Golang]
-* Fork Around And Find Out
-* Fallthrough [Golang]
-* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
-* Dev Interrupted
-* Modern Mentor
-* BSD Now [BSD]
-* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
* The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
* Maintainable
-* Wednesday Wisdom
-* Hidden Brain
+* Dev Interrupted
* The Changelog Podcast(s)
* Backend Banter
+* Fallthrough [Golang]
+* BSD Now [BSD]
+* Fork Around And Find Out
+* Hidden Brain
+* The ProdCast (Google SRE Podcast)
+* Deep Questions with Cal Newport
+* Pratical AI
+* Modern Mentor
### Podcasts I liked
I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "finished" (no more episodes) or I stopped listening to them due to time constraints or a shift in my interests.
-* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
* Go Time (predecessor of fallthrough)
+* CRE: Chaosradio Express [german]
* FLOSS weekly
* Java Pub House
* Modern Mentor
@@ -209,16 +209,16 @@ I liked them but am not listening to them anymore. The podcasts have either "fin
This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random order:
* Changelog News
+* Golang Weekly
+* VK Newsletter
* The Pragmatic Engineer
* The Valuable Dev
* Andreas Brandhorst Newsletter (Sci-Fi author)
-* Golang Weekly
-* The Imperfectionist
* Applied Go Weekly Newsletter
+* Monospace Mentor
* Ruby Weekly
+* The Imperfectionist
* Register Spill
-* Monospace Mentor
-* VK Newsletter
* byteSizeGo
## Magazines I like(d)
@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ This is a mix of tech and non-tech newsletters I am subscribed to. In random ord
This is a mix of tech I like(d). I may not be a current subscriber, but now and then, I buy an issue. In random order:
* Linux Magazine
+* LWN (online only)
* freeX (not published anymore)
* Linux User
-* LWN (online only)
# Formal education
diff --git a/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.md b/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.md
index 521f008d..3cff80fb 100644
--- a/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.md
+++ b/gemfeed/2025-07-14-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-6.md
@@ -1388,6 +1388,8 @@ Auto-failback ENABLED (removed /data/nfs/nfs.NO_AUTO_FAILBACK)
When `f0` reboots (planned or unplanned), `f1` takes over as CARP MASTER. To ensure `f0` automatically reclaims its primary role once it's fully operational, we'll implement an automatic failback mechanism. With:
+> Update: Fixed the script at Sun 4 Jan 00:04:28 EET 2026 - removed the NFS service check because when f0 is BACKUP, NFS services are intentionally stopped by carpcontrol.sh, which would prevent auto-failback from ever triggering.
+
```sh
paul@f0:~ % doas tee /usr/local/bin/carp-auto-failback.sh <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
@@ -1427,12 +1429,6 @@ if [ -f "$BLOCK_FILE" ]; then
exit 0
fi
-# Check if NFS services are running (ensure we're fully ready)
-if ! service nfsd status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
- log_message "SKIP: NFS services not yet running"
- exit 0
-fi
-
# All conditions met - promote to MASTER
log_message "CONDITIONS MET: Promoting to MASTER (was $CURRENT_STATE)"
/usr/local/bin/carp master
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index 13994b97..f5e6d163 100644
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Hello!
-> This site was generated at 2026-01-03T23:57:42+02:00 by `Gemtexter`
+> This site was generated at 2026-01-04T00:05:40+02:00 by `Gemtexter`
Welcome to the foo.zone!
diff --git a/uptime-stats.md b/uptime-stats.md
index 53e06b95..3995610b 100644
--- a/uptime-stats.md
+++ b/uptime-stats.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# My machine uptime stats
-> This site was last updated at 2026-01-03T23:57:42+02:00
+> This site was last updated at 2026-01-04T00:05:40+02:00
The following stats were collected via `uptimed` on all of my personal computers over many years and the output was generated by `guprecords`, the global uptime records stats analyser of mine.