Michael Stapelberg’s private website, containing articles about computers and programming, mostly focused on Linux.| Michael Stapelberg
Turns out my previous attempt at this build had a faulty CPU! With the CPU replaced, the machine now is stable and fast! 🚀 In this article, I’ll go into a lot more detail about the component selection, but in a nutshell, I picked an Intel 285K CPU for low idle power, chose a 4TB SSD so I don’t have to worry about running out of storage quickly, and a capable nvidia graphics card to drive my Dell UP3218K 8K monitor.| Michael Stapelberg
Update (2025-05-15): Turns out the CPU was faulty! See My 2025 high-end Linux PC for a new article on this build, now with a working CPU. In January I ordered the components for a new PC and expected that I would publish a successor to my 2022 high-end Linux PC 🐧 article. Instead, I am now sitting on a PC which regularly encounters crashes of the worst-to-debug kind, so I am publishing this article as a warning for others in case you wanted to buy the same hardware.| Michael Stapelberg
Let’s say you created a Go program that stores data in PostgreSQL — you installed PostgreSQL, wrote the Go code, and everything works; great! But after writing a test for your code, you wonder: how do you best provide PostgreSQL to your automated tests? Do you start a separate PostgreSQL in a Docker container, for example, or do you maybe reuse your development PostgreSQL instance?| Michael Stapelberg
When I saw the first reviews of the ASRock DeskMini X600 barebone, I was immediately interested in building a home-lab hypervisor (VM host) with it. Apparently, the DeskMini X600 uses less than 10W of power but supports latest-generation AMD CPUs like the Ryzen 7 8700G!| Michael Stapelberg
