I want to be a superhero, and also a ninja! Why choose?
Superhero Ninja is an initiative I’ve started in September 2018, it is meant to empower engineers and to find smarter, cleaner and more beautiful solutions to common problems.
This site contains small snippets of code and tips in the form of blog posts, which can quickly help you on your way.
The next part might sound super geeky but I’ve always wanted to feel like a superhero. Being an IT engineer makes me feel like I can have superpowers. Your spider sense will tingle when you see ugly code and we’re changing thousands of systems with the press of a button.
With that in mind it feels like Spiderman, when Uncle Ben told Peter Parker:
”With great power comes great responsibility.”
You can solve big problems with code and with that code you can positively impact lives every day. On the other hand, mistakes can have big consequences. When coded correctly our work helps organisations run more efficiently and effectively.
Most engineers are already ninjas, often solving problems before they come to attention. IT engineers are often working in the shadows, on our best when we’re being invisible and unnoticed.
Yet if you know where to look, our actions are very present.
In the end, I hope the solutions posted on this site can help people write code smarter, safer and more responsibly. And that will make us all feel more like superhero ninjas.
This site’s name is basically a big high five to all engineers, geeks, nerds and alike.
Being proud of what we do and who we are.
I know I am.
At work we are responsible for an API Gateway offering. Testing of that API gateway is often done by using an API backend. This post shows how to create a static API backend to which you can easily add responses. While looking for solutions I did not want to maintain another image, so I tried …
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Today I wanted to check some stuff on a pod running in my local kubernetes cluster. I’m still getting used to Kubernetes, thus didn’t want something ugly like exposing that pod. The easiest way of doing it for me has been to spin up a temporary pod using Ubuntu; Now you can do whatever you …
Continue reading “Run a quick interactive shell in kubernetes for testing purposes”
I was running a container from linuxserver.io, which is based on Alpine linux. While this container ran fine for a while, it seems after a while I’m getting the following errors in the log: It seems this is because there are incompatibilities between the minimal (musl) system C library (libc.so) that ships with Alpine Linux …
I am a self employed DevOps engineer, currently working in the Netherlands. I’ve been working in IT since 2001 and have worked with Oracle Middleware software since 2009.
I’ve gained my bachelor degree from the HanzeHogeschool in Groningen after I’ve spent two years working full time as a Windows systems and network administrator.
At work I’m mostly working with Red Hat Linux servers which run some kind of Oracle server software. When I’m at home I’m more playing around on my old thinkpad, which is running Ubuntu Linux. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 2004 with a small de-tour on OSX and Fedora, but I keep coming back to Ubuntu and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
My hobbies are travelling, swimming, cycling and ice skating, or simply having a good time with friends.
Email: joris@superhero.ninja
Phone: +31 30 369 03 15