I have always liked text editors. There is something promising about them, a blank canvas that you can quickly mess up with your random commented out lines. I went from BBEdit, my favorite Mac app of all time (seriously I love this app so much I bought a tshirt with…
Once again I asked, “Father, I want to know what a dying person feels when no one will speak with him, nor be open enough to permit him to speak, about his dying.” The old man was quiet, and we sat without speaking for nearly an hour. Since he did…
I'll admit I am late to learning these exist. About once a month, maybe more, I need to spin up some sort of debug container inside of Kubernetes. It's usually for something trivial like checking networking or making sure DNS isn't being weird and…
A climate change what-if Over a few beers... Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies on…
My entire career there has been a wide gap between CLI applications and GUI applications. GUIs are easier to use at first, they have options to provide more direct feedback to users, but they also can have odd or confusing behavior. Endlessly spinning wheels, error messages that don't…
Modern infrastructure work is, by many measures, better than it has ever been. We live in a time when a lot of the routine daily problems have been automated away by cloud providers, tooling or just improved workflows. However in the place of watching OS upgrades has come the endless…
Finding new CIDR blocks in a VPC can get increasingly time consuming as you grow. I found a nice little tool which will quickly output to STDOUT the available ranges. You can find that here. You can install it with: pip install aws-cidr-finder Run with: aws-cidr-finder --profile aws-profile-name Output looks…
New AWS blueprint project gives you a much better new EKS cluster experience. After reading the terraform they provide, this should be the way we all do it from now on. You can find the new project here.…