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Premix is now public

This is a copy of an update I recently sent to my GitHub sponsors..

After some reflection, I've made the decision to make the Geek Cookbook Premix repo public, rather than sponsors-only. Instead of switching the private repo to public (which would potentially expose all of your forks), I've created a fresh repository at geek-cookbook/premix, and will leave the private repo as-is.

My reasoning as is follows:

  1. I've been neglecting it / you. Over the past 14 months, I've spent all my spare time / funds building ElfHosted (read about the journey in the monthly reports here), and it's only just showing signs of becoming self-sustaining.

    It's unrealistic to think that I'll have time/focus in the short-term to hack on recipes / premix, so in offering repo access in exchange for sponsorship, I'm setting a false expectation for support / updates.

  2. Some of the recipes / premixes need a "fresh coat of paint", and making the repo public will hopefully encourage more PRs and community engagement.

I realize that premix access may have been your primary motivator for sponsoring me, and so you have my blessing to "un-sponsor" if you'd prefer...

Still here? Thank you for sticking with me ❤️ , and please feel free to hit me up in Discord with questions / comments / ideas / requests, I'd love to hear from you! :)

Added recipe for Kubernetes Dashboard with OIDC auth

Unless you're a cave-dwelling CLI geek like me, you might prefer a beautiful web-based dashboard to administer your Kubernetes cluster.

Screenshot of Kubernetes Dashboard

I've recently documented the necessary building blocks to make the dashboard work with your OIDC-enabled cluster, such that a simple browser login will give you authenticated access to the dashboard, with the option to add more users / tiered access, based on your OIDC provider.

Here's all the pieces you need..

Added recipe for Nomie (swarm)

Do you wish you had a chart showing your exercise, weight, or pooping 💩 trends over the past month? Nomie is a beautiful life/self-tracking app, an 8-year labor of love from developer Brandon Corbin.

Brandon has recently shut down the commercially hosted version of Nomie, but open-sourced all the code, so one of the geekier alternatives, buyoued by the still-passionate community of users, is to run your own Nomie instance...

Added recipe for Invidious (swarm)

Are you tired of second-guessing the YouTube links your friends send you, afraid that you'll forever see weird videos recommended to you as a result? I found myself avoiding unknown links for this reason, and so deployed an instance of Invidious to act as a private, non-tracking frontend to YouTube..