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At this time Audible doesn't yet allow for sharing the titles in your personal library, which is why I put up some titles here. Feel free to add titles in the comments that influenced you :)

Shortlist of IT-Related Books that influenced me

Thought provoking stories

Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders
The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win 5th Anniversary Edition

Multiplatform (`amd64` and `arm`) Kubernetes cluster setup

The official guide for setting up Kubernetes using kubeadm works well for clusters of one architecture. But, the main problem that crops up is the kube-proxy image defaults to the architecture of the master node (where kubeadm was run in the first place).

This causes issues when arm nodes join the cluster, as they will try to execute the amd64 version of kube-proxy, and will fail.

It turns out that the pod running kube-proxy is configured using a DaemonSet. With a small edit to the configuration, it's possible to create multiple DaemonSets—one for each architecture.

Steps

Follow the instructions at https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-kubeadm/ for setting up the master node. I've been using Weave Net as the network plugin; it see

The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

"Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
"Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft

We have moved: https://github.com/magnetikonline/linuxmicrosoftievirtualmachines

Due to the popularity of this Gist, and the work in keeping it updated via a Gist, all future updates will take place at the above location. Thanks!

	#!/bin/bash

	# This installs alacritty terminal on ubuntu (https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty)
	# You have to have rust/cargo installed for this to work

	# Install required tools
	sudo apt-get install -y cmake libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev xclip

	# Download, compile and install Alacritty
	git clone https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty

	Disclaimer: I am not associated with Copperhead and this is not supported by them WHATSOEVER, nor is this guaranteed to work.
	This has worked for me though.

	1. Download gapps from http://opengapps.org/

	The Nexus 5 has uses ARM (not 64-bit) and cOS is currently running Android Marshmallow (6.0).

	2. Download the latest version of TWRP (as of now v3.0)

	https://dl.twrp.me/hammerhead/twrp-3.0.0-0-hammerhead.img.html