Development

During hands-on Linux training it is useful to let a trainee follow your terminal session live — without the risk of his accidentally typing something that derails the demo. tmux makes this straightforward through shared sockets and its built-in read-only attach mode.

The WarmDesk project now has a proper website.

You can find it at https://tonk.github.io/warmdesk/ where you can read about all the features, browse the documentation, and find installation instructions.

The site covers everything from a quick start to a full administrator guide, including database setup, reverse proxy configuration, and horizontal scaling with Redis.

The source of WarmDesk itself is, as always, on GitHub at https://github.com/tonk/warmdesk.

Modern software teams produce a constant stream of tasks, conversations, customer commitments, and billable hours. Most commercial tools that manage all of this run in somebody else’s cloud, lock data inside proprietary formats, and charge per seat. WarmDesk is a self-hosted alternative: a single binary that covers Kanban boards, Scrum sprints, team chat, discussion threads, customer contracts, and time tracking — owned and operated by you.

As you probably know, I’m completely addicted to Ansible, so my new project requires some Ansible love.

As I have set it up with an API that can do, almost, anything with the cards, it was a breeze to create an Ansible collection to manage the WarmDesk instance.

I have created a collection from all the modules and uploaded that to the Galaxy. https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/ansilabnl/warmdesk/

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As I was typing along in my quest for success with Coworker, I noticed that the name was already used by multiple projects, so it was not wise to keep using this name. I really want to avoid name conflicts.

Asking Claude to come up with a new name, resulted in a lot of nice names, all where already taken.

Then the name WarmDesk came up. This is a warm environment, with a nice cup of coffee. And all the tickets and Kanban stuff on the desk.

I do quite a lot of development work for a customer, and this particular customer uses Ryver (https://ryver.com) for the management of the different projects. This works rather well and it’s not very expensive. But a big problem is that it looks like development of Ryver is completely shutdown. At least the last couple of years nothing has happened, nothing at all.

As Marcel (my Boss Mann) was pushing me to use Claude as a development aid, I got curious if Claude could give me a hand. I even went a step further and decided to go the very lazy route. I don’t want to write a single line of code.