April 17 2023
I've been gradually rolling out more homelab updates, including whats turned into a bit of a rebuild and de-flakiness effort. Nothing like a bit of sunlight to realise that things need a proper looking at :-)
It's also been pretty good for my brain, I think -- having the benefit of really …
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#worksonmycluster
Now that I've a bit more time on my hands (more on that later) the predictable swing back toward being able to do actual tech fiddling has started (I Hope).
I've been running nomad from Hashicorp as the compute coordinator for my home setup for a couple of years now …
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November 06 2022
It's November! That most wonderful time of the year when your brain and being need a little more maintenance.
Part of my maintenance schedule is taking the worsening weather as a prompt to feel less guilty about not going outside and doing outside things -- i.e. getting to coding and …
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Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time
I spent a number of days at SRECon 2022 in Amsterdam, and gave a talk that I'd had rattling around in my head for a wee while - roughtly based on a paper I left at Google when I left.
Laura was good enough to suggest it as a ;login: article …
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2021 Retrospective
2021 was a year. I've seen the receipts.
In summing it up, I guess I'll preface it by saying that this, more than any previous year, was one where
the shared experience of being the connected human was a more closely bonded one than ever. The shared
experience definitely had …
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