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Stories from when I worked at Sears

The DevOps movement has died out. What went wrong?

I review Github Copilot Workspaces and it doesn't go well.

A simple way to inject encrypted secrets into your Kubernetes cluster and keep an encrypted record of what is there.

The Worst Website In The Entire World is owned by Broadcom

Due to a combination of issues with GKE and Linkerd, I ended up deleting my load balancer routes when I removed the Linkerd helm chart.

In my hometown in Ohio, church membership was a given for middle-class people. With a population of 8,000 people, somehow 19 churches were kept open and running. A big part of your social fabric were the kids who went to the same church that you did, the people you

Proton email keeps sending my non-Proton email accounts encrypted emails. I figure out why and show you how to turn it off.

Where we are with git and if alternatives exist

The

Just a quick opportunity to check in with you all and say thanks!Don't worry, nothing is changing. I just wanted to write this as a quick thank you to all of you for checking in with my little site. I also wanted to address a few questions

Kubernetes Service Meshes aren't free anymore, what teams need to know moving forward.

I like Python. I've had a lot of success with it on projects large and small. It is fast enough for most of the things I need and when it isn't, migrating from it to a more performant language isn't challenging. The depth of

Since folks seemed to like the first one, I figured I would do another one. These are just interesting stories from my whole time doing IT-type work. Feel free to subscribe via RSS but know that this isn't the only kind of writing I do. Getting StartedI

My love of WordPerfect and discovering the full written history of the product and company.

Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.

We live in dangerous times. The average level of peacefulness around the world has dropped for the 9th straight year. The impact of violence on the global economy increased by $1 trillion to a record $17.5 trillion. This is equivalent to 13% of global GDP, approximately $2,200 per

There is no denying that containers have taken over the mindset of most modern teams. With containers, comes the need to have orchestration to run those containers and currently there is no real alternative to Kubernetes. Love it or hate it, it has become the standard platform we have largely

I love reading. It is the thing on this earth that brings me the most joy. I attribute no small part of who I am and how I think to the authors who I have encountered in my life. The speed by which LLMs are destroying this ecosystem is a

One interesting thing about the contrast between infrastructure and security is the expectation of open-source software. When a common problem arises we all experience, a company will launch a product to solve this problem. In infrastructure, typically the core tool is open-source and free to use, with some value-add services

One complaint I hear all the time online and in real life is how complicated infrastructure is. You either commit to a vendor platform like ECS, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk or Cloud Run or you go all in with something like Kubernetes. The first are easy to run but lock you

Review of Terraform Cloud

I recently returned from Google Cloud Next. Typically I wouldn't go to a vendor conference like this, since they're usually thinly veiled sales meetings wearing the trench-coat of a conference. However I've been to a few GCP events and found them to be technical

The best tools in tech scale. They're not always easy to learn, they might take some time to get good with but once you start to use them they just stick with you forever. On the command line, things like gawk and sed jump to mind, tools that

As I discussed in Part 1 I've converted this site over to pure IPv6. Well at least as pure as I could get away with. I still have some problems though, chief among them that I cannot send emails with the Ghost CMS. I've switched from

IP addresses have been in the news a lot lately and not for good reasons. AWS has announced they are charging $.005 per IPv4 address per hour, joining other cloud providers in charging for the luxury of a public IPv4 address. GCP charges $.004, same with Azure and Hetzner charges

Around 2016, the term "serverless functions" started to take off in the tech industry. In short order, it was presented as the undeniable future of infrastructure. It's the ultimate solution to redundancy, geographic resilience, load balancing and autoscaling. Never again would we need to patch, tweak

I have a long history of loving text editors. Their simplicity and purity of design is appealing to me, as is their long lifespans. Writing a text editor that becomes popular really becomes a lifelong responsibility and opportunity, which is just very cool to me. They become subcultures onto themselves.

For those of you who have spent years dealing with the nightmarish process of carefully putting EU user data in its own silo, often in its own infrastructure in a different EU region, it looks like the nightmare might be coming to an end. See the new press release here: