Milan Aleksić

Milan Aleksić

@aleksic.dev

Backend eng living in Belgium. Father of 2 boys. Mostly working on cloud, Java, Go, Python. Enjoys good SF/fantasy books. Opinions are my own. My website: https://aleksic.dev

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Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

Following up on the low quality of Telegram spam protection I've revisited other ways to serve notifications from some services and happy to report that "ntfy" has evolved enough to consider it a worthy replacement and Telegram is out. So easy to set up ntfy in k8s environment!

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

I am so old school that I paid for sublime text editor since I can't stand all these modern GUI editors that weigh too much or want to help a bit too much

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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

Sam Halpert@samhalpert.bsky.social

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

Standardizing some dev stuff, figured out this suits me best in 2025: - jetify devbox for db/tool/language dependencies - remake for build (if a must only) - tmux to start all the dev server(s) - modd+devd if a website - "just" to run commands No more weird targets in Makefile

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

For some reason, unclear to me immediately, we were in this flow of thinking that Jira was the way to go for a while now. I proposed to try Linear... and maan, what a change of perspective: it's so much better. One actually *wants to write down* the details of work.

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

After many months I got some motivation to look again at some of my projects. As an exercise, I am finishing migration from vue 2 to htmx of my main hobby project. The beginning was hard, but I think it's getting easier now, and the app seems to be easier to maintain than an SPA. No regrets so far

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

I bit the bullet and finally bought a mini PC for my home lab. This lets me decommission the (10y) old Intel i7-3540 laptop, and double the total capacity of the lab. Proxmox-driven k3s cluster will be the 1st use case.

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

Well, this didn't work out in the end - some motherboard issue, first SSD was disappearing and then the ethernet port could not get up. I sent it back. I am assuming I had some bad luck & will try another minisforum machine before changing brands or just building the machine myself

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

I bit the bullet and finally bought a mini PC for my home lab. This lets me decommission the (10y) old Intel i7-3540 laptop, and double the total capacity of the lab. Proxmox-driven k3s cluster will be the 1st use case.

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

The home lab backbone remains, though, Ansible+Nomad (for the foreseeable future) because I made it work so well over the years. The mini PC I chose is minisforum UM870 (Ryzen 7 8745H, 64GB DDR5, 1TB 990 Pro) & pretty happy so far

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

It is also unbelievable how some tech like Synology DS413j just... still works (with changed drives and unsupported DSM OS version though) after more than a decade.

Milan Aleksić
@aleksic.dev

Spring Boot and all other standard frameworks are good if you are doing standard stuff. They are not easy to debug. Latest trauma: blog.aleksic.dev/short-note-w...

blog.aleksic.devShort Note: when Spring Boot and Privoxy don't like each otherI figured out after full day of work a very peculiar behavior in Spring Boot and wanted to write this one down since it was a pretty annoying one. Let’s say you are: using Spring Boot and need to make HTTP client connections (using RestTemplate or R...

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