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Garden of D’Lights

Arduino code used to run the Garden of d'Lights at the Ruth Bancroft Garden.

Making JIRA Suck Less

Why JIRA Sucks JIRA is almost universally reviled by every engineer that I know. Most of them can t quite explain why is sucks, they just hate it. In my view the problem isn t JIRA, it s how managers implement JIRA s features that causes so much suckage. Here s a short list of the problems that I see [ ]

Adding a volume for docker images to Tanzu Kubernetes

If you deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster using a typical YAML file with no volumes defined you ll end up with a fairly small worker node that can quickly fill up all available disk space with container images. Each time a container is deployed on a node Kubernetes makes a local copy of the container image [ ]

Installing TrueNAS Scale on a Terra Master NAS

My 10+ year old Synology NAS failed recently. I tried replacing the power supply and replacing the CMOS battery but it would not come back to life, so I started searching around for a replacement. I originally intended to buy another Synology NAS, but when I looked over the various models I came to the [ ]

Adding a LUKS-encrypted iSCSI volume to TrueNAS and Ubuntu 24.04

I have an Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat workstation already set up with LUKS full disk encryption, and I have a Terra Master F4-424 NAS with 32TB raw storage that I installed TrueNAS Scale on. Years ago I set up a LUKS-encrypted iSCSI volume on a Synology NAS and used that to back up my main [ ]