Problem: Conferences are often a waste of time and you do not want to be the dude that only asks questions to ask questions. A big problem here is the misconception that conferences are to bring people together and make them network, but this is not true.
The purpose of …
moreApparently books are something people are interested in and usually when you go online and search for recommendations, you always get the same shit. So here is a list of books remarkable enough for me to make a recommendation against them, for them or how to use them.
I will …
moreThis is the fourth and final part of this little series of introducing kubernetes to system operators. In the first post I gave an overview about the general structure of a kubernetes cluster. The second post deals with managing ingress networking, as exposing services to the outside world is something …
moreThis is part three of my small high level Kubernetes introduction. In the first post I gave an overview about the control plane and in the previous post I explained how we can get traffic into our cluster.
In this post we will answer the basic question: When pods can …
moreIn the previous post I gave a rough overview about the control plane of a kubernetes cluster, as well as some explanation on how to think about it.
Why a post about this? Can't I just create a loadbalancer Service and everything works? Or just create an ingress with the …
moreIn this series of posts I want to give a small introduction into Kubernetes. I am fairly new to Kubernetes and the first platform I designed just went into production and I found most of the introductory literature not so helpful in this process. My memory is still fresh on …
moreWhen it comes to software I usually hate pretty much everything and I was born the proverbial grumpy old man yelling "get off my lawn". Especially in times where people have succumbed to atrocities like the initsystem that is everything, but a functioning initsystem, the sound management software that breaks …
moreThis is a topic which somehow still confuses people and there is a lot of seemingly contradicting advice. The main problem is that bodyweight fluctuates daily, but the best solution people came up with is doing weekly averages or, worse, only to step on the scale once a week. I …
moreMost people somewhat involved in strength sports are familiar with the term periodiziation [1]. To cite the first sentence of Wikipedia on it, it is the systematic planning of athletic and physical training, but for the rest of the article, I assume that the reader is somewhat familiar with the …
moreAs most trainees know there are different ways on how to prescribe or measure the weight on a bar. This is a small glossary of terms one encounters frequently, as it probably be also can be found elsewhere on the web, but well, now I have a link handy.
Boris Sheiko is currently the most renowned powerlifting coach in the world, having produced countless exceptional lifters, not only in Russia, but thanks to the internet all over the world. His programs often deem very complex, featuring his characteristic double sessions, where you perform a main lift twice in a …
moreOver the past two years the Juggernaut Method by Chad Wesley Smith has become the general strength training template of my choice. While Chad's book already has several pointers on how to modify the template to make it your own program, as well as exhaustive options for assistance work, I …
moreHere is a quick FAQ about creatine. Few things create so much confusion as creatine – not because there is so much conflicting information, but mainly because it is something almost anyone at some point comes into contact with it and wonders what it is about, whether you are into sports …
moreMost of the ways people teach the Olympic lifts to lifters seem to be tailored to weak people, who are in the beginning of their lifting career, or really athletic people, who can already move challenging weights during the whole range of motion. I guess in the past this was …
moreIt is popular to start strength training with some sort of linear program, like the aptly named Starting Strength program by Mark Rippetoe</a>` and in general, this is a good idea, as it produces consistent results across all age groups and genders. When these programs stop working, many people …
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