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…
I, like the entire internet, has enjoyed watching the journey of 37Signals from cloud to managed datacenter. For those unfamiliar, it's worth a read here. This has spawned endless debates about whether the cloud is worth it or should we all be buying hardware again, which is always…
I recently rewrote a system to output a YAML to get a bunch of information for internal users. However we use Confluence as our primary information sharing system. So I needed to parse the YAML file on GitHub (where I was pushing it after every generation), generate some HTML and…
I'm trying to use more YAML in my Terraform as a source of truth instead of endlessly repeating the creation of resources and to make CLIs to automate the creation of the YAML. One area that I've had a lot of luck with this is GCP…
Imagine you had a dog. You got the dog when it was young, trained and raised it. This animal was a part of your family and you gave it little collars and cute little clothes with your family name on it. The dog came to special events and soon thought…
In the light of GoTo admitting their breach was worse than initially reported I have found myself both discussing passwords with people more than ever before and directing a metric ton of business towards 1Password. However, it has raised an obvious question for me: why are users involved with passwords…
One common question I see on Mastodon and Reddit is "I've inherited a cluster, how do I safely upgrade it". It's surprising that this still isn't a better understood process given the widespread adoption of k8s, but I've had to…
With the recent exodus from Twitter due to Elon being a deranged sociopath, many folks have found themselves moving over to Mastodon. I won't go into Mastodon except to say I've moved over there as well (@[email protected]) and have really enjoyed myself. It'…