IPv6 Is A Disaster (but we can fix it)

IP addresses have been in the news a lot lately and not for good reasons. AWS has announced they are charging $.005 per IPv4 address per hour, joining other cloud providers in charging for the luxury of a public IPv4 address. GCP charges $.004, same with Azure and Hetzner charges…

Serverless Functions Post-Mortem

Around 2016, the term "serverless functions" started to take off in the tech industry. In short order, it was presented as the undeniable future of infrastructure. It's the ultimate solution to redundancy, geographic resilience, load balancing and autoscaling. Never again would we need to patch, tweak…

CodePerfect 95 Review

I have a long history of loving text editors. Their simplicity and purity of design is appealing to me, as is their long lifespans. Writing a text editor that becomes popular really becomes a lifelong responsibility and opportunity, which is just very cool to me. They become subcultures onto themselves.…

Today the EU decided to give me a giant present

For those of you who have spent years dealing with the nightmarish process of carefully putting EU user data in its own silo, often in its own infrastructure in a different EU region, it looks like the nightmare might be coming to an end. See the new press release here:…

GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) Review

What if Kubernetes was idiot-proof? Love/Hate Relationship AWS and I have spent a frightening amount of time together. In that time I have come to love that weird web UI with bizarre application naming. It's like asking an alien not familiar with humans to name things. Why…

Developers Guide to Moving to Denmark

I've wanted to write a guide for tech workers looking to leave the US and move to Denmark for awhile. I made the move over 4 years ago and finally feel like I can write on the topic with enough detail to answer most questions. Denmark gets a…

Monitoring is a Pain

And we're all doing it wrong (including me) I have a confession. Despite having been hired multiple times in part due to my experience with monitoring platforms, I have come to hate monitoring. Monitoring and observability tools commit the cardinal sin of tricking people into thinking this is…

The point of AI chat is selling ads

It's all advertising, all the way down. The Robots are Coming My entire life automation has been presented as a threat. It is hard to measure how often business has threatened this to keep wages down and keep workers increasing productivity. While the mechanism of threatened automation changes…