July 16 2024

Going to be playing a bit of catch-up, since it's been a few months.
Work is still workin' -- I've got some coaching going on, and am still working mainly with one team on consulting. It's been fun times, and the gig is flexible enough that I've gone essentially part time …
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April 01 2024
A few months further into my "not working full-time and seeing how that goes" journey.
I've picked up a contract for the consulting end of my 'job' since January, that'll likely last til the summer or thereabouts -- it'd been fun doing the good and useful parts of the job I …
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Production, SRE and the Architecture of the Built Environment
Recycling old talk proposals for fun and...that's it!
Here's an amalgamation of the proposal text and some notes from a talk I proposed for SRECon EMEA last year -- I'll be talking about this to the Dublin SRE meetup in a couple of weeks, so here it is while the …
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November 21 2023

The last few weeks were a bit of a hive of activity. I went back to work, started a small business, and went from no-busy-at-all levels of work-related concentration to quite-busy-and-not-very-stressful-yet. I'm going to be doing more than just coaching, but that's for another time.
Earlier this year, I asked …
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WOMC: Nomad Variables as Secrets
Standard disclaimer: Maybe don't do this in production? I hear Hashicorp also does a secret store :-)
Nomad 1.4.0 added support for 'variables', which are essentially key/value blobs protected by nomad's ACL system. As someone who had steadfastly avoided either running vault, or doing secrets properly, I knew …
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