Apr 08, 2020 from Max Brenner Integrating cdk8s with Flux After I got used to cdk8s I was curious how well it integrates with some current continuous delivery tools for Kubernetes. Therefore I sat down for a quick session for integrating it with Flux. I w...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 07, 2020 from Randall Degges Defensive Finance in a Downturn I live in the bay area of the United States in a suburb of San Francisco. At the time of writing, I’ve been in isolation from the world for roughly 3 weeks, with no clear end in sight. And while th...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Apr 05, 2020 from Randall Degges Don't Waste Time Getting Feedback Time is valuable. In fact, time is the single most valuable thing any of us have. That’s why I think it’s so important not to waste time if you don’t have to. Every second you waste working on some...
Mar 30, 2020 from Max Brenner cdk8s, the future of Kubernetes application deployments? Hint: As cdk8s is fairly new at the time of this writing expect that things will change/have changed. Intro cdk8s (probably cloud development kit for Kubernetes) is a new framework released by AWS ...
Mar 27, 2020 from Remains of the Day My Pandemic Zoom Setup Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at, and then asking me about, my Zoom setup. It’s actually not all that elaborate. I know many people ...
Mar 21, 2020 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog Exploring Immutable Infrastructure with Vault During the last year, I have been curious about Immutable Infrastructure. After researching, I noticed that I had been applying some of these concepts already to stateless Docker containers, and I ...
Mar 12, 2020 from Remains of the Day Veblen values NOTE: I'm going to start cross-posting individual stories sent out in my newsletter over here on my blog. The versions here may contain additional side notes, and often as I bring them over I'll do...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 17, 2020 from Randall Degges The Only Type of API Services I'll Use I love API services. It still feels magical each time I query an endpoint and get back some interesting data or cause some complicated functionality to occur. I’ve built my entire career (and hobbi...
Feb 14, 2020 from seize the dev A Guide to Compiling Programs on Windows A guide to compiling C programs on Windows, with all the gotchas in one place.
Feb 05, 2020 from PREPEND Cleaning up Tableau workbook files to remove the inline thumbnails I like to track my Tableau visualization projects in git to protect against screwups and for curiosity of what previous versions looked like. Theoretically, it might help with collaborators working...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Jan 17, 2020 from Randall Degges My Personal Financial Strategy I’ve always been fascinated by money: how people earn it, spend it, and invest it. What fascinates me most about personal finance is how personal it is. Everyone has different goals and desires, an...
Jan 13, 2020 from PREPEND How to identify yourself, when yourself changes? Neal Stephenson's PURDAH. I try to read every book by Neal Stephenson because he writes characters that I wish I could be, or perhaps are the closest to from any other characters in fiction. I was excited when Fall; or, Dod...
Jan 08, 2020 from Remains of the Day The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture “Si vis pacem para bellum”translated “If you want peace, prepare for war” I hadn’t planned on seeing John Wick 3 - Parabellum, but out for a walk in Stockholm in May, I got caught in a sudden downp...
Jan 07, 2020 from Remains of the Day The Uncanny Valley of Interactivity I believe mass entertainment suffers from a bit of format rigidity due to the natural inertia from structural ossification in the music, film, and publishing businesses, to name the most prominent....
Dec 13, 2019 from Remains of the Day Narrative debt HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of fan fiction to ever appear on the silver, errr, OLED screen. DC may lag behind the Marvel Univers...
