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It’s all Greek to me

In my post about Proofuction I described that term as the state a system is in when it was created as a proof of concept and rushed into production use without the usual productionization steps being taken. A related set of terms I would like to coin is with respect to early versions of things [ ]

Milestone or millstone, not sure which

Once again I am able to obfuscate my antiquity by expressing my age in hexadecimal as I rolled over from 0x3F to 0x40 last week.

High Availability Kubernetes

Lots of good advice here on building a production-grade high availability Kubernetes framework. Looking forward to the followup articles.

Farewell to Chico

I met my birth father, Paul Chico Fernandez, back in 2000 when I was 39 and he was 60. It was a fascinating adventure that I talked about here in 2001. After a stroke left him paralyzed earlier this year, he and the family decided it was time for him to let go, and he [ ]

Proofuction

For some time now I have been using a new word Proofuction which is a portmanteau of Proof of concept and Production . It describes a system which is designed as a proof of concept that is immediately deemed so useful that it is put straight into production without any effort to productionize it, i.e. make [ ]

Augmenting my Mastodon instance with S3-compatible object storage

I run my nerd.megahuge.com personal Mastodon instance on an inexpensive virtual private server such as the ones you can find via LowendBox.com. The CPU and memory specs are absolutely more than enough to manage a single-user instance, however Mastodon s cached media files can grow into the tens of gigabytes, even with cron jobs removing any [ ]

Understanding Mastodon Birdsite Gateways

I see a lot of people on Twitter up in arms that there are impostor Mastodon accounts pretending to be them, rushing to report this abuse and decrying the criminality of reposting their tweets without their consent. It s a bit confusing to people who are not familiar with the Fediverse, but I ll try to clear [ ]

Coming Full Circle?

A lot of people are wondering what to do. Twitter may have run its course, as its new Chief Twat flexes his tailfeathers early on, and the idea of a centralized social communication platform loses its shine. Many have already sought refuge in the Mastodon fediverse a federated network of twitter-like servers that approximates [ ]

Key to the door

Not that I have been keeping up with blogging much of late, but it s interesting to note that my blog is now old enough to drink in the USA.

New Horizons

You may have heard that I have joined the team of intrepid adventurers at Arctiq, where I ll be doing my part Scouting Over the Next Hill into the rarefied air of new and exciting cloud technologies. I ll try to cross-post any new technology ramblings here for my doggedly loyal audience.