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This is an update from my 2023 post , as I’ve added some equipment and the camera I use is discontinued. 
 I really enjoy using the Elgato Prompter for video calls. If you’re anything like me, you probably are typically looking at your own preview in a video call, and usually end up looking at like the corner of the screen instead of at the webcam lens, and to the person on the…

 Disclaimer: I work as a Principal Software Engineer at AWS on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Apple is an AWS customer . The following post is solely my own perspective and speculation based on publicly available data, with no internal insight from anyone at Apple into their reasoning. 
 
 High level summary of the announcement 
 On June 9, 2025, at Apple’s…
A few months ago I came across this Bluesky post about using Bluesky replies as blog comments, and pinned (replied with a 📌 to add to the pin feed ) it for later. 
 Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section? 

`npm install bluesky-comments` 

Built by @coryzue.com — Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team) 2024-11-25T22:32:20.183Z 
 Bluesky post embed shortcode…
I recently recorded a talk for work, and was asked about my AV setup.
The camera and lense choice is directly inspired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal’s setup for their excellent podcast, Acquired . I figure since I work full time remote from home, I want to be seen and heard clearly. Also, the a7c is a fantastic full-frame compact travel camera. 
 
	 
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UniFi homelab setup 
 Hardware 
 My home network looks something like the following: 
 
 EPB 1GB fiber in ($68/mo) 
 UniFi Dream Machine 
 Switch Lite 16 PoE 
 2x Access Point In-Wall HD 
 Switch 24 (for the rack) 
 Switch Flex Mini 
 
 Fortunately my house is wired with CAT6 and the cables terminate in the garage.
I’ve got my UDM sitting on…
2026 
 To Read 
 
 Holy Hurt: Understanding Spiritual Trauma and the Process of Healing - Hillary McBride 
 The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century - Tim Weiner 
 
 Completed 
 
 The Ruthless Elimanation of Hurry - John Mark Comer 
 
 2025 
 
 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation - Andrew Ross Sorkin…
Ingress is
one of the most under-appreciated features of Kubernetes, and in this post I’ll
show you how to easily get a new service up and running with automatic TLS and
DNS on a kops 
cluster in AWS using Ingress rules. Kubernetes Ingress rules allow you to route
path or host-based HTTP traffic with native Kubernetes API objects. 
 Setup 
 First we’ll need…

 Tools and Strategies for Making the Most of Kubernetes Access Control - KubeCon NA 2025 - Atlanta, GA ( slides ) 
 A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer - KubeCon Europe 2025 - London, UK ( Panel dicsussion ) 
 End to End Message Authenticity in Cloud Native
Systems - Cloud Native Rejekts Europe 2025 - London, UK 
 Securing Kubernetes workloads in Amazon EKS - re:Invent…

 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design - AWS Security Blog - 11/12/25 
 Cedar: A New Approach to Policy Management for Kubernetes - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Blog (CNCF) - 3/28/25 
 Cedar Access Control for Kubernetes - Cedar Blog - 10/30/24 
 Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) - AWS Open Source Blog - 12/1/20…