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Can we afford it?

Tuesday 15 October 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Flying is great fun, but it’s not a cheap hobby. Renting planes from a flying club is usually the best option to keep the cost under control. That is exactly what we have been doing for years.

But there’s a downside to that: the availability of the planes. And that is how we ended up with the idea of buying a plane. Before taking that step, let’s figure out if we can afford it.

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We bought a plane!

Saturday 22 June 2024
FlyingOwning a plane

Yes, we did – really! Let me share how this all started and the journey that led to the actual purchase of the plane and how I moved from renting the PH-VTB to (partially) owning the F-GSBM.

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Dev Containers Fail Fast

Friday 27 October 2023
Dev ContainersLinuxPodmanWSL 2

I started to experiment with Development Containers using Podman. The Linux system setup by the podman machine init command was so basic that things like git were not installed. So, let’s install git to find out that another thing was missing and a setting had to be changed an yet another one and and another one.

And finally, things still fail… Time for another approach: replace the Podman installed and configured Linux system with another one that comes with Windows/WSL integration.

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Then came Podman

Thursday 26 October 2023
Dev ContainersHugoLinuxPodmanWSL 2

In the First there was Linux post I explained how to get going with a Linux system on a Windows laptop. Where this would be a difficult task many years ago, it’s a breeze nowadays with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Running a Linux system only doesn’t add much value to my way of working. I need applications. But this whole journey started with messing up a Windows laptop with all sorts of applications, frameworks and add-ons to just try something. I don’t want to do the same thing on a Linux system.

The solution: containerization; and that doesn’t read: Docker. Let’s dive into it.

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First there was Linux

Wednesday 25 October 2023
WSL 2Linux

Step one on the road to using Dev Containers is to get a Linux system running on my Windows laptop. In my setup, the Linux system will be used to run the Dev Containers. But since it is a full-fledged Linux system, I can use it for anything that I want of course.

Let’s get going and start to install a Linux system on top of a Windows laptop.

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