On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, ahriman wrote:
Pretty self-explanatory. What is everyone working on right now?
I'm setting up a couple of rpi to handle my 2 cheap UPSs and serve that information to the other machines connected to them, so they chan poweroff properly in the event of a power outage.
Also, while I'm at it, I'll attach some 7-segment display to the pi to provide a nice clock and maybe some UPS info ... still not sure about that.
Anyway, my backlog of systems and electronics projects is way bigger than I can do on my free time, and it keeps growing. So there's always somethig to do !
Currently, I'm working on sharpening my scripting and development skills with respect to system administration. As in, I'm not trying to become some rockstar software engineer, but I want to be fluent enough to where it significantly aids in maintaining a system. Right now I'm working with python, but I've ordered The Rust Programming Language. I'm interested in using rust and python both for system administration.
I'm not really a developer, but after some years of having to create scripts and little programs in about every language I thik I settled now with shell script (POSIX) for almost everything, if that falls short I go with pyton3 or go (If I have to distribute that somehow), and of course there's always C for the microcontrollers.
Oh, I also just got ssh working with my PGP key. w00t. This makes life a lot easier. No more backing up ssh keys, just back up my PGP key. And one single key to use everywhere. Now I just need to set it up on my personal VPS since I use that as a jump station to everywhere else.
As Ben said, that with a Yubikey is gold ! I also use the Yubikey to log into my main machine with just one touch. Is really convenient, and super easy to configure on OpenBSD.
Cheers,