I’ve been a Linux user for about 15 years, and I owe a lot of that journey to my first job at Capgemini Deutschland GmbH. It was a classic corporate setup-developers used Windows, but all the servers ran on Linux. That’s where I finally got to learn the essentials: Bash scripting, maintaining on-premise servers for testing environments, and all that fun in-house stuff. I was working there part-time while studying computer science, so it wasn’t long before I started using Linux for personal projects, too. I kept my gaming PC on Windows, though, because back in 2012, gaming on Linux was basically impossible. Read more

Archlinux’ documentation is good, but somehow i struggled to find simple instructions how to update a package. The kafka CLI i’m maintaining, kaf, has been available for some time in the AUR. At some point i have been passed the ownership of the AUR package, but i had no idea how to do a release. For more complex cases there’s probably more to do, however in my simple case: Clone repo: Read more