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TIL coding with agents: Patch, the language
Claude just doesn't even bother regenerating a patch when it needs one, it just codes in patch –as if it was purposely built as a language for mutating text by humans, and not as a file delta interchange format. It doesn't care, so much of
Gitub+GCP Identity Federation with Config Connector
I was recently needing to access GCP resources from a github actions workflow in order to run an end-to-end test of gcp-kms-issuer . The old way of doing this would be to create a GCP service account and then export a long-lived authentication keyfile that you'd then stuff into
People, not machines, drive the craft
One of my favorite things in the world is a thought provoking book, and there's not much I enjoy doing more on a lazy Saturday than wandering the aisles of books at the second-hand stores. There are so many gems to be found, a gem like a coffee
Composing and Diffing Your GitOps Repo
In a recent post I opined on a past gitops failure and contemplated how showing diffs of the changes you're going to make to the running repo is one check that can help mitigate certain types of mistakes. The automation around a gitops repo makes it a natural
GPT4-created Kubernetes Policies
Like I mentioned in my previous LLM+k8s post , I've been curious about how we can bring the power of LLMs to bear in generating k8s resources from their knowledge given some natural language instruction. As I'm a big fan of javascript from waaaay back, I&
How to Delete Your GCP Org in One Easy Step With GitOps
OK, not the whole org but all of its permissions, which will usually end up being almost the same. At my last job I was helping a small company with k8s and app management and bringing everything up to SOC2 levels of security compliance. One task I spent some time
GCP KMS cert-manager Issuer
In my current project, the PKI heirarchy I want to create needs to be dynamic as automated and agile certificate topologies bring a lot of value to the defensive security story. With the security hat on, I want the root of the certificate hierarchy, the root CA, rooted with its
fly puts the bus in reverse and backs over NATS
In a recent post on their blog , fly talks about how they finally hit a scale where they couldn't fit every user's wireguard peer in their regional gateway node's kernels anymore, and then in one fell paragraph, centered on one deadly sentence, NATS finds
LLM-Powered Embodied Lifelong Learning SysOp
I'm going to spend the next couple kilowords talking about how I view an LLM model's view of the world, and how we might map the LLM's conceptual-space to concept-first action spaces, like k8s-backed devops, to effect a higher-order persistent learning method driven by
NixOS + SteamVR + OpenXR + Godot
I'm in love with VR and with nix. I want to do my godot and other VR dev in Linux with the ability to easily share the output. SteamVR itself has a pretty simple usability story on nixos as of late and can be installed/configured basically by
The Atlantic-Sized Hole between docker and k8s
One place where I've been really unhappy with the UX of modern container-based SDLC pipelines is the creation of the images themselves. Docker was a disruptor, they were first to bring a (mostly) effective UX to the concept of "containers". But it hasn't kept
fly.io replaces Nomad with NIH
The newtech, selfhosted, cloud, IaaS provider fly.io released a blog post last month detailing the escapade. I came upon this post as I've been recently looking through the landscape of [I|P]aaS providers. I'm simple, when I see "replacing Nomad", I click;
Why Kubernetes is the Linux of the Future
I wrote a large diatribe attempting to extol the virtues of kubernetes in an internal document, trying to sell it off as the perfect abstraction layer. The Linux kernel itself is the OS's arbiter between the hardware and software worlds and in fact plays an integral part of
Addicted to Kubernetes
I've spent the last year working at my current gig with a talented team to make a huge move from onprem kvm virtual machines and puppet, to containers and kubernetes deployed to an onprem cloud. Before that I spent the better part of a decade building a containers-to-the-edge