This blog entry is going to be fairly brief and simple. I will give you and idea of the projects that are still on my to-do list. So, in no particular order, here we go
Joplin. Lee-Ann and I are big users of Evernote. Unfortunately the price of Evernote has been increasing and the product quality has been decreasing. I plan on self hosting a Joplin server. The biggest hurdle will be porting all of our data off of Evernote and moving it to Joplin so I can eventually cancel our Evernote subscriptions.
Wallabag. One of my most favorite features of Evernote is the web clipper. Wallabag is self hosted replacement for the Evernote web clipper.
Bitwarden. Bitwarden is a self hosted password manager. We currently use Keepass, but I want to get the added functionality of Bitwarden, which will make it easier to keep passwords synchronized between all of our devices.
Ansible Semaphore. While I currently have Ansible up and running, I really want to try out this graphical interface for Ansible and explore if it gives me more functionality
Terraform by Hashicorp. I want to get proficient with Terraform so that I can learn more about infrastructure as code. I mean, I don’t have a need to spin up a lot of new VMs, but this is one of those projects you do just for the sake of learning
Github. So far I haven’t gotten around to creating a Github account or using Git, mostly because I didn’t need it or the added complexity. But As I dive deeper into coding, I am going to need this
BASH scripting. I am teaching myself how to do BASH scripting, mostly with this book: Shell Scripting by Jason Cannon
I am also trying to improve my SQL skills. I know a bit from my IBM days (we used it for financial reporting), and I have built up these skills a bit more administering my local copies of MariDB. I am using this book: SQL: Learn SQL (using MySQL) in One Day and Learn It Well by Jamie Chan
Python. Python is the programming language of the internet, the cloud, big data and AI. I have decided its time for me to learn to code, and I don’t think there is a better language to start out with. I am using these books at the moment:
Python Programming: A Beginners Guide to Learn Python in 7 Days – by Ramsey Hamilton
Python Programming for Beginners by Phillip Robbins
Python Programming for Beginners by Jason Cannon
In addition to those books, Jay LaCroix has a series on Python Programming that have yet to watch. Same for Network Chuck.