Posts tagged "tech"

Simplifying container orchestration with Ansible and Podman

Running a Volleyball club with N8N

Running a community sports club can easily turn into a juggling act of emails, spreadsheets, and schedules. In this article, I share how we used n8n to transform the day-to-day operations of our LG...

The tiny office, the compact cassettes, and the speaker upgrades

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of cassettes from my childhood days, I upgraded my office desk speakers.

NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW

Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.

NixCon 2025

Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...

What even are Cloudflare Durable Objects?

Notes from 2 years of building with Cloudflare Durable Objects

Apply New Kubernetes Pod/Deployment Configuration

Overview Applying configuration to kubernetes pods/deployments is a pretty big part of administering these environments. Whether you are making minor/major changes to the configuration of your depl...

List Kubernetes Resources Using Get Commands

Overview One thing to note is if you manage multiple name spaces. You’ll want to use the -n or --namespace with the namespace name to see those resources. Otherwise you will look in the default nam...

Restarting Kubernetes Deployments To Apply Config

Overview When you make changes to a kubernetes pod or deployment. You need to rollout these changes by hand. Which includes restarting that particular resource. kubectl rollout restart There are ot...

Another Long Unexpected Water Supply Disruption in 2025

Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienc...

Promise based Web Worker Messaging

If you've ever used Web Workers (or any other event-based communication), you probably noticed that this kind of code can be hard to read and reason about. You also have to implement some kind of i...

Efficient and green LLMs for software engineering

Training and using large language models to develop software is bad for the planet – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

Engineering a Rust optimization quiz

There are several Rust quizzes online, including one that’s literally called the “Unfair Rust Quiz” at https://this.quiz.is.fckn.gay/, but when I was given the opportunity to record an episode of t...

Throwing off my groove

A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of November 2025. The theme of this short post is Cycles and Fluctuations.

Special Edition — Ego

Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post has approximately 335 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submit...

October 2025

Once again, time moves fast, and here we are, with another monthly update. From the blog since my last recently post: Hima Devlog #1 🍀 Life To be honest it feels like a lot of stuff is happening at...

Simplifying music playback

I decided to throw complications away and use a tablet, and a tablet alone via it's headphone jack to the amplifier. Blasphemy, sacrilege - no separate DAC, no dedicated streamer, no NAS, no nothing.

Somebody else's computer

I talk about the fragility of "the cloud"

AWS Sagemaker Bring-Your-Own-Container (BYOC) with Pixi

To run your own container in AWS Sagemaker (Training Job) it’s required to have mamba. So how would you use pixi instead? It’s quite straight-forward, first add micromamba as part of your dependenc...

Unit Testing Embedded C: Off-Target with CppUTest on Windows

The reasons for having unit tests in your projects are well-known and accepted; I'm not going to rehash them here. Whether you follow the school of thought that says you must write the tests first ...