DEV Community: Red Hacks

Welcome 2024

Red Hacks — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 11:02:00 +0000

Happy new year \o/

At RedHacks, our goal is to help you practice and take the next step in your career in tech. In 2023, we created this practice group so that everyone could get experience by working together on realistic projects. We created projects to help ecological farmers' markets, incentivize blood donation, integrate command line interfaces, and much more.

However, we need much more engagement and mentorship to be sustainable and successful. Our monetization strategy is not to charge members, except for a symbolic fee, mostly to prevent the "vandalism" we faced previously. We hope that, with the growth of our projects, we can monetize from the projects as an independent software organization.

It's essentially a chicken-and-egg situation. We need more members and investment to build projects but better projects to attract members and investment. That's why we decided to open our bounties program.

Bounties

Starting TODAY we'll be placing rewards on tickets, using bountysource.com, to incentivize participation in projects. This is not meant as a salary or any kind of work relationship. It's just a way to give back to the community, especially to the most engaged participants in the project.

All tickets with bounties will be clearly tagged, and rewards will be offered for all kinds of tasks. Backend, Frontend, Management, Publication, and all other activities we need to perform as a software organization. We hope that those rewards will help keep projects active and tasks well distributed among members, according to each individual interest and availability.

Bounties will start at $20 and will be revised monthly. We hope that this helps to keep members and projects active and healthy. If you'd like that, check your eligibility on bountysource.com and set up your account right away.

We're at your service to help you build and collect as much as possible. Join our meetings, and let's get our hands dirty. Your ideas and projects are very much welcome.

Let's build!

Coming up in October

Red Hacks — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:19:20 +0000

First of all, let me thank you all. We started this group about a month ago, and more than 50 people joined already. Our primary goal is to help everyone take the next career step through open-source collaboration. And that has already started happening!

So far, the focus of our effort has been the inception of projects. Repositories, scaffolding, issues, and so on. Here are the most active projects:

Blink: Incentivize blood donation and similar social projects.
ID42: Helping delivery riders and urban cyclists
UP: Unified and pluggable CLI solutions

Check our other project ideas, constantly being created, in our GitHub organization. Our ambition is that, through those projects, we can share technology openly and become a sustainable and independent software organization. If that's something you'd like to join, learn more at https://redhacks.net

In the upcoming weeks, we'll focus on the operations side of the organization and those projects. Identity, Secrets, Deployments, and all that jazz. See you at our next meeting!

Red Hacks Practice Group

Red Hacks — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 10:16:43 +0000

Red Hacks Practice Group

Our group is an open and safe space for practice in contributing to open-source projects, especially those maintained by Red Hat. This includes the projects created by this group as well as OpenShift, Quarkus, Ansible, and many related projects.

Our goal is to help developers be successful in their careers in open source. If you'd like to practice open-source development using the same processes and tools that world-class companies use, you're very welcome to join.

DISCLAIMER: This is an independent group, not affiliated with Red Hat or IBM in any way.

What members get?

As a member, you will be granted access to our projects, meetings, and resources as if we were working in the same software team at an open-source company:

Interesting and realistic projects
Weekly meetings to sync in ideas and challenges
1:1 mentorship sessions with mentors
Chat group and asynchronous collaboration
Pull-request reviews
Modern tooling (github, gitpod, AWS and more)

What members need to know?

The group is open to all levels of seniority. There is no problem if you are just beggining in technology. However, there are at least two things you'll need to contribute to the conversation:

Basic english communication skills to participate in the meetings and write comments or documents.
Any modern programming language, preferably Python, Java or Go, where you'll find more peers here.

What is expected from members?

Also, we expect that members:

Respect our code of conduct. TL;DR: Don't be an asshole.
Drive its participation proactively: participate in the meetings, schedule mentorships, assign tickets, and engage others.

The number of participants in the group is limited, please participate and make the most of your time in the group.

How to join?

If you'd like to join the group, there are only two things you need to do:

Sponsor Caravana Cloud on GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/CaravanaCloud
Submit your contact info: https://forms.gle/GkudAYCoZa3M6pXq5

After that, you'll be added to our google group and github team. That should grant you access to all the links, invites and content. Send us a message if you need help with anything.

To accomodate everyone's agenda, we have two meeting times:

17:00 BRT on the first and third monday of the month
13:00 BRT on the second and fourth monday of the month

Nobody is expected to join all meetings. However, they are a great opportunity to ask, share and meet your fellow members.

Where to find all the links?

All links to private meetings and channels are in the group private repo on github at https://github.com/CaravanaCloud/redhacks

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this free?

No, but it's really cheap, $5/month. We just want to keep the trolls out and the lights on.

Where can I learn more?

Besides this blog, you can send us a message on X/Twitter https://twitter.com/CaravanaCloud or email help at caravana.cloud

Why is this in english?

To better help members participate in real open-source, in english. Even thou we speak other languages, most open-source is done in english and we need to practice that as well. However, do not worry, it is perfectly OK to make mistakes, this is a place for safe, constructive practice.

Why are people speaking portuguese and spanish?

Our community is huge in Latin America, and sometimes we need to speak some "spanglish", please nevermind. We'll be back to english in a moment.

Is it OK to speak portuguese in meetings?

Yes IF YOU ARE SURE that everyone in the meeting speaks portuguese.
Please help us make everyone feel welcome.

Do I need to go to all meetings

No, but you are welcome to. Most members come on their prefered time, 2 times a month.

Where does the money go?

First, to the projects themselves, expenses like cloud services and developer tooling.
Then to donations to organizations selected by the group.

Open Kubernetes with OKD

Red Hacks — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:36:54 +0000

OKD is a great foundation to build open cloud-native applications and platforms.
Here is a demonstration and repository to help you get started!

My top 10 Midjourney Prompts

Red Hacks — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 12:29:30 +0000

Here are my favorite midjourney upscales and their full commands. Thanks Gabs Ferreira for the idea :)

10 - The Second Sun

My first try :)

Quando o segundo sol chegar Para realinhar as órbitas dos planetas Derrubando com assombro exemplar O que os astrônomos diriam se tratar De um outro cometa Quando o segundo sol chegar Para realinhar as órbitas dos planetas Derrubando com assombro exemplar O que os astrônomos diriam se tratar De um outro cometa Não digo que não me surpreendi Antes que eu visse, você disse e eu não pude acreditar Mas você pode ter certeza Que o seu telefone irá tocar Em sua nova casa que abriga agora a trilha Incluída nessa minha conversão Eu só queria te contar Que eu fui lá fora e vi dois sóis num dia E a vida que ardia sem explicação Quando o segundo sol chegar Para realinhar as órbitas dos planetas Derrubando com assombro exemplar O que os astrônomos diriam se tratar De um outro cometa Não digo que não me surpreendi Antes que eu visse, você disse e eu não pude acreditar Mas você pode ter certeza Que o seu telefone irá tocar Em sua nova casa que abriga agora a trilha Incluída nessa minha conversão Eu só queria te contar Que eu fui lá fora e vi dois sóis num dia E a vida que ardia sem explicação O seu telefone irá tocar Em sua nova casa que abriga agora a trilha Incluída nessa minha conversão Eu só queria te contar Que eu fui lá fora e vi dois sóis num dia E a vida que ardia sem explicação Explicação Não tem explicação Explicação, sem explicação Explicação, não tem Não tem explicação, explicação Não tem explicação, não tem, não tem

9 - Copilot

The moment i WOWed

<https://s.mj.run/M5MNBCSqKfo> an cinematic F-21 pilot after landing, arm to camera extending index and middle finger in two-fingered salute V-sign to camera, one mapping, CGI, VFX, insanely detailed and intricate, 8K, --s 1000

8 - Baby Capybara

And other adorable creatures

<https://s.mj.run/_emnzVoZITQ> holding a baby capybara. Photographic realism. Hyper realistic. --v 5

7 - Lucia

First attempt at GF and cat

a bedroom, with a female working on her desk, looking at a computer monitor, bed made behind her, hair long brown and curly, with a striped cat on her lap, a black cat on the bed, sun coming through the window on the opposite side of the desk, volumetric light, realistic

6 - Fantasy Art

Lots of D&D ideas

<https://s.mj.run/sK11y8wic78>, fantasy art

5 - Pink Freud

Classicos :)

Freud, Pink

4 - Penguins

Made lots of then <3

an cinematic group of penguins, leader smoking  with arm to camera, one mapping, CGI, VFX, insanely detailed and intricate, 8K, --s 1000

3 - Brasilidades

Exploring culture and bias

a brazillian indigenous native being interviewed by a girl, CGI, VFX, insanely detailed and intricate, 8K

2 - Red Hatters

Hacking in red

photo of a gril with a red hat assembling a robot. shot from behind. Use a Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera with a 24-70mm lens, ISO 400, f/2.8, 1/125 sec.

1 - The Future

Is indistinguishable from magic :)

Carl Sagan drinking coffee

Enjoy midjourney AND respect artists <3

Secure Web Apps with Quarkus, Keycloak and Vaadin

Red Hacks — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:10:37 +0000

A quick demo presenting how to integrate user authentication in an application with separate application and API tiers, using Quarkus and Keycloak.

Special thanks for the Vaadin folks for helping my rants on twitter :)

Code:
https://github.com/CaravanaCloud/openshift-ris

GitOps Survival Guide at DevConfCZ 2022

Red Hacks — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:43:11 +0000

As presented on DevConfCZ:
https://devconfcz2022.sched.com/event/siGr/gitops-survival-guide-kubernetes-edition

Slides:
https://speakerdeck.com/faermanj/gitops-survival-guide-kubernetes-edition

Getting Started with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Red Hacks — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 16:15:01 +0000

A quickstart guide to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

Commands, Config & References:

https://gist.github.com/faermanj/a577a8837712d509b81e0744553b98a2