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This page groups the blog into a smaller set of consistent topics so it is easier to find practical guides, Linux notes, infrastructure writeups, and the occasional AI or security deep dive.

8 posts

Tutorials

Step-by-step walkthroughs, tooling guides, and hands-on setup articles.

8 posts

Linux

Distribution notes, operating system opinions, and practical platform work.

2 posts

AI

Local AI, model-serving experiments, and applied assistant workflows.

2 posts

Ansible

Automation patterns, dynamic inventory ideas, and real operations glue.

4 posts

Security

Operational security, secrets handling, and defensive workflow improvements.

1 post

macOS

Apple platform workflows, networking, and the tradeoffs of the ecosystem.

1 post

Gentoo

Focused Gentoo notes and distro-specific installation or packaging details.

2 posts

CentOS

CentOS Stream commentary and production-oriented Linux platform discussion.

2 posts

Architecture

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Automation

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CI/CD

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CLI

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Cloud

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Dependency Management

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DevOps

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Developer Experience

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Development

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Docker

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Engineering

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Filesystems

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Fish

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Flux

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Git

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GitOps

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Kubernetes

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Maintainability

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Make

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Metrics

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Platform Engineering

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Productivity

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Renovate

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Shell

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Software Engineering

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Tooling

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8 posts

Tutorials

Step-by-step guides that prioritize practical outcomes over theory.

November 22, 2024 (over a year old) · ~1 min read

Routing All macOS Traffic Through the Tor Network

For certain tasks, I need to use macOS and sometimes prefer to route all my traffic through the Tor network. In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process. While you ca...

Tutorials

October 20, 2024 (over a year old) · ~4 min read

Go as a Backend for AI Applications: A Performance Case Study

When developing AI applications in Python, leveraging Go for model serving in the backend can offer significant performance advantages. While Python excels in machine learning m...

Tutorials

October 16, 2024 (over a year old) · ~9 min read

Simple Load Balancer Tutorial with k3d

Local Kubernetes clusters are useful when an application needs more than a single container. They provide a realistic environment for testing Deployments, Services, routing, hea...

Tutorials

June 14, 2024 (2 years old) · ~5 min read

Why I Switched from cd to zoxide

cd is one of the simplest and most reliable Unix commands. It does exactly what it should, is available everywhere, and requires no explanation. Replacing it is therefore not ab...

Tutorials

January 17, 2024 (2 years old) · ~6 min read

Gitea - A Small and Scaleable DevOps Platform - From Your Homelab to Enterprise

What I appreciate in software is when it scales efficiently. I dislike overstretched goals and under-delivering on value. In recent years, GitLab, for example, made numerous pro...

Tutorials

January 16, 2024 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

k9s Tutorial

I am excited to introduce an article about k9s, a powerful tool designed for efficient management of kubernetes clusters, whether it be on platforms like EKS or k3s. This tool h...

Tutorials

August 15, 2023 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

Lazygit Tutorial

This is my Lazygit tutorial, which will help you get an overview of the most important features. It will speed up your git workflow and make it easier for you.

Tutorials

August 3, 2023 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

Advanced (CLI) tools for coders & hackers

This article is aimed at the advanced coder/hacker and exclusively includes tools that go far beyond the standards such as “bash”, “nano”, or “git”. I am writing this text becau...

Tutorials

8 posts

Linux

Linux opinions, distro notes, and day-to-day systems work.

July 3, 2026 (6 hours old) · ~13 min read

Why Fish Is My Favorite Interactive Shell

The shell is one of my most frequently used interfaces. It sits between me and source code, Git, Kubernetes, package managers, remote systems, build tools, and almost every oper...

Linux Fish Shell CLI Productivity

July 3, 2026 (10 hours old) · ~15 min read

Lines of Code Tells You Where to Look, Not What to Think

The current discussion about the Linux kernel reaching another milestone measured in tens of millions of lines of code follows a familiar pattern. Some people treat the number a...

Software Engineering Architecture Linux Maintainability Metrics

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~12 min read

BTRFS, Subvolumes, Snapshots, and Snapper

Most Linux installations still treat the filesystem as an afterthought. You make one root partition, maybe one home partition, format everything as ext4, and move on. That works...

Linux Filesystems

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~9 min read

Your .env File Does Not Belong in Plaintext

In an earlier article, AES‑256 Is Enough. Your Secrets Workflow Isn’t, I argued that the cipher is usually not the weak point. The weak point is the workflow around it. One of t...

Linux Security DevOps

June 8, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~9 min read

AES‑256 Is Enough. Your Secrets Workflow Isn’t

There is a strange little ritual in engineering teams. Someone mentions encryption, someone else says “AES‑256,” and for a brief second the room relaxes. The magic number has be...

Linux Security

October 27, 2024 (over a year old) · ~6 min read

The Philosophical Dichotomy Between macOS and Linux

In the ongoing discourse surrounding operating systems, macOS and Linux occupy distinct philosophical and practical niches. Linux, with its open-source ethos, exemplifies adapta...

Linux macOS

March 5, 2024 (2 years old) · ~3 min read

Why I Continue To Advocate For Centos Stream In Production Environments

A few years ago, there was considerable discussion surrounding Red Hat’s transition of CentOS, which, according to insights shared by “industry experts” on platforms such as Red...

Linux CentOS

January 18, 2024 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

Gentoo goes Binary

I was genuinely excited as I read the latest Gentoo news regarding their commitment to providing more binary packages for Gentoo stable. Gentoo is often referred to as the non-b...

Linux Gentoo

2 posts

AI

Applied AI work, local model experiments, and assistant-oriented projects.

January 10, 2024 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

Running Your Own AI on Your Local Machine - A Guide

In another article, I talked about utilizing GPT’s API to write a Telegram Chat-Bot. Now, I will write about using an LLM like GPT but on your local machine and for free. You ca...

AI

January 10, 2024 (2 years old) · ~5 min read

Write Your Own GPT based Telegram Assistent

In this article, I will teach you how to write a GPT-based Telegram Bot in Go using OpenAI’s API. This bot is just an example of how easy it is to utilize GPT’s API. There are w...

AI

2 posts

Ansible

Automation patterns and inventory ideas from practical operations work.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~18 min read

GitOps: From Tribal Knowledge to Auditable Infrastructure

Infrastructure used to be full of stories that began with, “Ask Alex, they know how that server works.” Someone had installed a package over SSH, changed a configuration file du...

GitOps DevOps Kubernetes Ansible Platform Engineering

June 9, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~16 min read

Running a Tor Exit Node on CentOS Stream 9 with Ansible

If you want to operate a Tor exit node properly, you should avoid doing it by hand. You need a repeatable bootstrap, a hardened SSH configuration, a firewall that only exposes w...

Ansible CentOS

4 posts

Security

Security workflows, secrets handling, and operational hardening.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

Renovate Is Not the Problem. Your Pipeline Is.

Keeping dependencies current is healthy engineering. Old dependencies accumulate security issues, compatibility problems, unsupported APIs, and migration work. Small updates tha...

Renovate DevOps CI/CD Security Dependency Management

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Installing Kyverno and Capsule with Flux

A local Flux setup becomes much more interesting once it manages more than demo applications. In the previous article, Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI, I used a...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux Security

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~9 min read

Your .env File Does Not Belong in Plaintext

In an earlier article, AES‑256 Is Enough. Your Secrets Workflow Isn’t, I argued that the cipher is usually not the weak point. The weak point is the workflow around it. One of t...

Linux Security DevOps

June 8, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~9 min read

AES‑256 Is Enough. Your Secrets Workflow Isn’t

There is a strange little ritual in engineering teams. Someone mentions encryption, someone else says “AES‑256,” and for a brief second the room relaxes. The magic number has be...

Linux Security

1 post

macOS

macOS workflows, networking details, and ecosystem tradeoffs.

October 27, 2024 (over a year old) · ~6 min read

The Philosophical Dichotomy Between macOS and Linux

In the ongoing discourse surrounding operating systems, macOS and Linux occupy distinct philosophical and practical niches. Linux, with its open-source ethos, exemplifies adapta...

Linux macOS

1 post

Gentoo

Gentoo-specific installation notes and packaging details.

January 18, 2024 (2 years old) · ~4 min read

Gentoo goes Binary

I was genuinely excited as I read the latest Gentoo news regarding their commitment to providing more binary packages for Gentoo stable. Gentoo is often referred to as the non-b...

Linux Gentoo

2 posts

CentOS

CentOS Stream discussion with a production and platform lens.

June 9, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~16 min read

Running a Tor Exit Node on CentOS Stream 9 with Ansible

If you want to operate a Tor exit node properly, you should avoid doing it by hand. You need a repeatable bootstrap, a hardened SSH configuration, a firewall that only exposes w...

Ansible CentOS

March 5, 2024 (2 years old) · ~3 min read

Why I Continue To Advocate For Centos Stream In Production Environments

A few years ago, there was considerable discussion surrounding Red Hat’s transition of CentOS, which, according to insights shared by “industry experts” on platforms such as Red...

Linux CentOS

2 posts

Architecture

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (10 hours old) · ~15 min read

Lines of Code Tells You Where to Look, Not What to Think

The current discussion about the Linux kernel reaching another milestone measured in tens of millions of lines of code follows a familiar pattern. Some people treat the number a...

Software Engineering Architecture Linux Maintainability Metrics

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~15 min read

Vendor Lock-in: Why It Is Not Always Bad and How to Manage It Deliberately

Vendor lock-in is not about using a vendor. It is about losing room to move. A company does not become trapped merely because it runs workloads on AWS, buys a SaaS product, uses...

Architecture Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering

3 posts

Automation

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (37 minutes old) · ~11 min read

Why Every Repository Should Have a Makefile

Every repository develops a collection of commands. There is a command to install dependencies, another to run tests, one for formatting, one for building an artifact, and sever...

Make Automation Developer Experience DevOps CI/CD

July 3, 2026 (4 hours old) · ~12 min read

Why I Recommend pre-commit to Every Engineering Team

Many code-review comments should never have required a reviewer. Trailing whitespace, malformed YAML, forgotten generated files, unresolved merge markers, inconsistent formattin...

Git DevOps CI/CD Developer Experience Automation

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

My Famous Formula: Speed = Process + Automation

Engineers spend a remarkable amount of time arguing about tools. Should we use Renovate or Dependabot? Kubernetes or a simpler container platform? Flux or Argo CD? Terraform or ...

Engineering DevOps Automation CI/CD Platform Engineering

7 posts

CI/CD

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (37 minutes old) · ~11 min read

Why Every Repository Should Have a Makefile

Every repository develops a collection of commands. There is a command to install dependencies, another to run tests, one for formatting, one for building an artifact, and sever...

Make Automation Developer Experience DevOps CI/CD

July 3, 2026 (4 hours old) · ~12 min read

Why I Recommend pre-commit to Every Engineering Team

Many code-review comments should never have required a reviewer. Trailing whitespace, malformed YAML, forgotten generated files, unresolved merge markers, inconsistent formattin...

Git DevOps CI/CD Developer Experience Automation

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

My Famous Formula: Speed = Process + Automation

Engineers spend a remarkable amount of time arguing about tools. Should we use Renovate or Dependabot? Kubernetes or a simpler container platform? Flux or Argo CD? Terraform or ...

Engineering DevOps Automation CI/CD Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

Renovate Is Not the Problem. Your Pipeline Is.

Keeping dependencies current is healthy engineering. Old dependencies accumulate security issues, compatibility problems, unsupported APIs, and migration work. Small updates tha...

Renovate DevOps CI/CD Security Dependency Management

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~16 min read

Why I Recommend Trunk-Based Development

Using branches as environments sounds attractive at first. A dev branch, a test branch, a staging branch, and a prod branch feel simple, visible, and comfortable. Developers mer...

Git DevOps CI/CD GitOps Platform Engineering

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~13 min read

Why Docker Buildx Bake Is More Interesting Than It Looks

If you only ever build one image with one Dockerfile, Docker Bake can look a bit underwhelming. You move a docker build command into a docker-bake.hcl file, type docker buildx b...

Docker CI/CD

June 9, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~20 min read

You Probably Want a Monorepo for Your Base Images

Most engineering teams do not start with an image governance problem. They start with something humble: one Dockerfile for Python, one for Node.js, one for kubectl, maybe one fo...

Docker CI/CD

2 posts

CLI

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (2 hours old) · ~15 min read

Why I Recommend asdf for Every Repository

Every software repository depends on tools. Even a small project may require one particular version of Go, Node.js, Python, or another runtime. Larger repositories often add Ter...

asdf Developer Experience DevOps CLI Tooling

July 3, 2026 (6 hours old) · ~13 min read

Why Fish Is My Favorite Interactive Shell

The shell is one of my most frequently used interfaces. It sits between me and source code, Git, Kubernetes, package managers, remote systems, build tools, and almost every oper...

Linux Fish Shell CLI Productivity

1 post

Cloud

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~15 min read

Vendor Lock-in: Why It Is Not Always Bad and How to Manage It Deliberately

Vendor lock-in is not about using a vendor. It is about losing room to move. A company does not become trapped merely because it runs workloads on AWS, buys a SaaS product, uses...

Architecture Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering

1 post

Dependency Management

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

Renovate Is Not the Problem. Your Pipeline Is.

Keeping dependencies current is healthy engineering. Old dependencies accumulate security issues, compatibility problems, unsupported APIs, and migration work. Small updates tha...

Renovate DevOps CI/CD Security Dependency Management

10 posts

DevOps

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (37 minutes old) · ~11 min read

Why Every Repository Should Have a Makefile

Every repository develops a collection of commands. There is a command to install dependencies, another to run tests, one for formatting, one for building an artifact, and sever...

Make Automation Developer Experience DevOps CI/CD

July 3, 2026 (2 hours old) · ~15 min read

Why I Recommend asdf for Every Repository

Every software repository depends on tools. Even a small project may require one particular version of Go, Node.js, Python, or another runtime. Larger repositories often add Ter...

asdf Developer Experience DevOps CLI Tooling

July 3, 2026 (4 hours old) · ~12 min read

Why I Recommend pre-commit to Every Engineering Team

Many code-review comments should never have required a reviewer. Trailing whitespace, malformed YAML, forgotten generated files, unresolved merge markers, inconsistent formattin...

Git DevOps CI/CD Developer Experience Automation

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

My Famous Formula: Speed = Process + Automation

Engineers spend a remarkable amount of time arguing about tools. Should we use Renovate or Dependabot? Kubernetes or a simpler container platform? Flux or Argo CD? Terraform or ...

Engineering DevOps Automation CI/CD Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

Renovate Is Not the Problem. Your Pipeline Is.

Keeping dependencies current is healthy engineering. Old dependencies accumulate security issues, compatibility problems, unsupported APIs, and migration work. Small updates tha...

Renovate DevOps CI/CD Security Dependency Management

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~16 min read

Why I Recommend Trunk-Based Development

Using branches as environments sounds attractive at first. A dev branch, a test branch, a staging branch, and a prod branch feel simple, visible, and comfortable. Developers mer...

Git DevOps CI/CD GitOps Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~18 min read

GitOps: From Tribal Knowledge to Auditable Infrastructure

Infrastructure used to be full of stories that began with, “Ask Alex, they know how that server works.” Someone had installed a package over SSH, changed a configuration file du...

GitOps DevOps Kubernetes Ansible Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~15 min read

Vendor Lock-in: Why It Is Not Always Bad and How to Manage It Deliberately

Vendor lock-in is not about using a vendor. It is about losing room to move. A company does not become trapped merely because it runs workloads on AWS, buys a SaaS product, uses...

Architecture Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~10 min read

What You as a Dev Should Know About Kubernetes

Silos have a bad reputation in software organizations. They are blamed for slow delivery, poor communication, and tickets being thrown from one team to another. But silos are no...

Kubernetes DevOps

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~9 min read

Your .env File Does Not Belong in Plaintext

In an earlier article, AES‑256 Is Enough. Your Secrets Workflow Isn’t, I argued that the cipher is usually not the weak point. The weak point is the workflow around it. One of t...

Linux Security DevOps

4 posts

Developer Experience

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (32 minutes old) · ~10 min read

Why Git Worktrees Are Awesome for Parallel Development

Git branches isolate history, but a normal clone gives us only one working directory. That mismatch creates friction as soon as more than one task matters. I may have an unfinis...

Git Development Productivity Developer Experience

July 3, 2026 (37 minutes old) · ~11 min read

Why Every Repository Should Have a Makefile

Every repository develops a collection of commands. There is a command to install dependencies, another to run tests, one for formatting, one for building an artifact, and sever...

Make Automation Developer Experience DevOps CI/CD

July 3, 2026 (2 hours old) · ~15 min read

Why I Recommend asdf for Every Repository

Every software repository depends on tools. Even a small project may require one particular version of Go, Node.js, Python, or another runtime. Larger repositories often add Ter...

asdf Developer Experience DevOps CLI Tooling

July 3, 2026 (4 hours old) · ~12 min read

Why I Recommend pre-commit to Every Engineering Team

Many code-review comments should never have required a reviewer. Trailing whitespace, malformed YAML, forgotten generated files, unresolved merge markers, inconsistent formattin...

Git DevOps CI/CD Developer Experience Automation

2 posts

Development

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (32 minutes old) · ~10 min read

Why Git Worktrees Are Awesome for Parallel Development

Git branches isolate history, but a normal clone gives us only one working directory. That mismatch creates friction as soon as more than one task matters. I may have an unfinis...

Git Development Productivity Developer Experience

June 30, 2026 (3 days old) · ~7 min read

Git Worktree: A Practical Tutorial

You are halfway through a feature when another branch suddenly needs your attention. Perhaps a pull request needs reviewing, a hotfix needs testing, main has moved, or you need ...

Git Development Productivity

2 posts

Docker

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~13 min read

Why Docker Buildx Bake Is More Interesting Than It Looks

If you only ever build one image with one Dockerfile, Docker Bake can look a bit underwhelming. You move a docker build command into a docker-bake.hcl file, type docker buildx b...

Docker CI/CD

June 9, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~20 min read

You Probably Want a Monorepo for Your Base Images

Most engineering teams do not start with an image governance problem. They start with something humble: one Dockerfile for Python, one for Node.js, one for kubectl, maybe one fo...

Docker CI/CD

1 post

Engineering

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

My Famous Formula: Speed = Process + Automation

Engineers spend a remarkable amount of time arguing about tools. Should we use Renovate or Dependabot? Kubernetes or a simpler container platform? Flux or Argo CD? Terraform or ...

Engineering DevOps Automation CI/CD Platform Engineering

1 post

Filesystems

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 12, 2026 (3 weeks old) · ~12 min read

BTRFS, Subvolumes, Snapshots, and Snapper

Most Linux installations still treat the filesystem as an afterthought. You make one root partition, maybe one home partition, format everything as ext4, and move on. That works...

Linux Filesystems

1 post

Fish

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (6 hours old) · ~13 min read

Why Fish Is My Favorite Interactive Shell

The shell is one of my most frequently used interfaces. It sits between me and source code, Git, Kubernetes, package managers, remote systems, build tools, and almost every oper...

Linux Fish Shell CLI Productivity

3 posts

Flux

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~19 min read

Managing Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with Flux

Running one Flux-managed cluster is useful. Running three Flux-managed clusters from the same repository is where the repository structure starts to matter. The moment you have ...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Installing Kyverno and Capsule with Flux

A local Flux setup becomes much more interesting once it manages more than demo applications. In the previous article, Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI, I used a...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux Security

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI

GitOps is one of those ideas that sounds more complicated than it has to be. The useful version is simple: Git becomes the desired state for your cluster, and a controller insid...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

4 posts

Git

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (32 minutes old) · ~10 min read

Why Git Worktrees Are Awesome for Parallel Development

Git branches isolate history, but a normal clone gives us only one working directory. That mismatch creates friction as soon as more than one task matters. I may have an unfinis...

Git Development Productivity Developer Experience

July 3, 2026 (4 hours old) · ~12 min read

Why I Recommend pre-commit to Every Engineering Team

Many code-review comments should never have required a reviewer. Trailing whitespace, malformed YAML, forgotten generated files, unresolved merge markers, inconsistent formattin...

Git DevOps CI/CD Developer Experience Automation

June 30, 2026 (3 days old) · ~7 min read

Git Worktree: A Practical Tutorial

You are halfway through a feature when another branch suddenly needs your attention. Perhaps a pull request needs reviewing, a hotfix needs testing, main has moved, or you need ...

Git Development Productivity

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~16 min read

Why I Recommend Trunk-Based Development

Using branches as environments sounds attractive at first. A dev branch, a test branch, a staging branch, and a prod branch feel simple, visible, and comfortable. Developers mer...

Git DevOps CI/CD GitOps Platform Engineering

5 posts

GitOps

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~16 min read

Why I Recommend Trunk-Based Development

Using branches as environments sounds attractive at first. A dev branch, a test branch, a staging branch, and a prod branch feel simple, visible, and comfortable. Developers mer...

Git DevOps CI/CD GitOps Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~18 min read

GitOps: From Tribal Knowledge to Auditable Infrastructure

Infrastructure used to be full of stories that began with, “Ask Alex, they know how that server works.” Someone had installed a package over SSH, changed a configuration file du...

GitOps DevOps Kubernetes Ansible Platform Engineering

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~19 min read

Managing Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with Flux

Running one Flux-managed cluster is useful. Running three Flux-managed clusters from the same repository is where the repository structure starts to matter. The moment you have ...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Installing Kyverno and Capsule with Flux

A local Flux setup becomes much more interesting once it manages more than demo applications. In the previous article, Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI, I used a...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux Security

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI

GitOps is one of those ideas that sounds more complicated than it has to be. The useful version is simple: Git becomes the desired state for your cluster, and a controller insid...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

5 posts

Kubernetes

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~18 min read

GitOps: From Tribal Knowledge to Auditable Infrastructure

Infrastructure used to be full of stories that began with, “Ask Alex, they know how that server works.” Someone had installed a package over SSH, changed a configuration file du...

GitOps DevOps Kubernetes Ansible Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~10 min read

What You as a Dev Should Know About Kubernetes

Silos have a bad reputation in software organizations. They are blamed for slow delivery, poor communication, and tickets being thrown from one team to another. But silos are no...

Kubernetes DevOps

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~19 min read

Managing Multiple Kubernetes Clusters with Flux

Running one Flux-managed cluster is useful. Running three Flux-managed clusters from the same repository is where the repository structure starts to matter. The moment you have ...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Installing Kyverno and Capsule with Flux

A local Flux setup becomes much more interesting once it manages more than demo applications. In the previous article, Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI, I used a...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux Security

June 18, 2026 (2 weeks old) · ~12 min read

Learning GitOps with Flux, k3d, and the Flux CLI

GitOps is one of those ideas that sounds more complicated than it has to be. The useful version is simple: Git becomes the desired state for your cluster, and a controller insid...

Kubernetes GitOps Flux

1 post

Maintainability

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (10 hours old) · ~15 min read

Lines of Code Tells You Where to Look, Not What to Think

The current discussion about the Linux kernel reaching another milestone measured in tens of millions of lines of code follows a familiar pattern. Some people treat the number a...

Software Engineering Architecture Linux Maintainability Metrics

1 post

Make

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (37 minutes old) · ~11 min read

Why Every Repository Should Have a Makefile

Every repository develops a collection of commands. There is a command to install dependencies, another to run tests, one for formatting, one for building an artifact, and sever...

Make Automation Developer Experience DevOps CI/CD

1 post

Metrics

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (10 hours old) · ~15 min read

Lines of Code Tells You Where to Look, Not What to Think

The current discussion about the Linux kernel reaching another milestone measured in tens of millions of lines of code follows a familiar pattern. Some people treat the number a...

Software Engineering Architecture Linux Maintainability Metrics

4 posts

Platform Engineering

Everything currently filed under this topic.

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

My Famous Formula: Speed = Process + Automation

Engineers spend a remarkable amount of time arguing about tools. Should we use Renovate or Dependabot? Kubernetes or a simpler container platform? Flux or Argo CD? Terraform or ...

Engineering DevOps Automation CI/CD Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~16 min read

Why I Recommend Trunk-Based Development

Using branches as environments sounds attractive at first. A dev branch, a test branch, a staging branch, and a prod branch feel simple, visible, and comfortable. Developers mer...

Git DevOps CI/CD GitOps Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~18 min read

GitOps: From Tribal Knowledge to Auditable Infrastructure

Infrastructure used to be full of stories that began with, “Ask Alex, they know how that server works.” Someone had installed a package over SSH, changed a configuration file du...

GitOps DevOps Kubernetes Ansible Platform Engineering

June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~15 min read

Vendor Lock-in: Why It Is Not Always Bad and How to Manage It Deliberately

Vendor lock-in is not about using a vendor. It is about losing room to move. A company does not become trapped merely because it runs workloads on AWS, buys a SaaS product, uses...

Architecture Cloud DevOps Platform Engineering

3 posts

Productivity

Everything currently filed under this topic.

July 3, 2026 (32 minutes old) · ~10 min read

Why Git Worktrees Are Awesome for Parallel Development

Git branches isolate history, but a normal clone gives us only one working directory. That mismatch creates friction as soon as more than one task matters. I may have an unfinis...

Git Development Productivity Developer Experience

July 3, 2026 (6 hours old) · ~13 min read

Why Fish Is My Favorite Interactive Shell

The shell is one of my most frequently used interfaces. It sits between me and source code, Git, Kubernetes, package managers, remote systems, build tools, and almost every oper...

Linux Fish Shell CLI Productivity

June 30, 2026 (3 days old) · ~7 min read

Git Worktree: A Practical Tutorial

You are halfway through a feature when another branch suddenly needs your attention. Perhaps a pull request needs reviewing, a hotfix needs testing, main has moved, or you need ...

Git Development Productivity

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Renovate

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June 27, 2026 (6 days old) · ~22 min read

Renovate Is Not the Problem. Your Pipeline Is.

Keeping dependencies current is healthy engineering. Old dependencies accumulate security issues, compatibility problems, unsupported APIs, and migration work. Small updates tha...

Renovate DevOps CI/CD Security Dependency Management

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Shell

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July 3, 2026 (6 hours old) · ~13 min read

Why Fish Is My Favorite Interactive Shell

The shell is one of my most frequently used interfaces. It sits between me and source code, Git, Kubernetes, package managers, remote systems, build tools, and almost every oper...

Linux Fish Shell CLI Productivity

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Software Engineering

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July 3, 2026 (10 hours old) · ~15 min read

Lines of Code Tells You Where to Look, Not What to Think

The current discussion about the Linux kernel reaching another milestone measured in tens of millions of lines of code follows a familiar pattern. Some people treat the number a...

Software Engineering Architecture Linux Maintainability Metrics

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Tooling

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July 3, 2026 (2 hours old) · ~15 min read

Why I Recommend asdf for Every Repository

Every software repository depends on tools. Even a small project may require one particular version of Go, Node.js, Python, or another runtime. Larger repositories often add Ter...

asdf Developer Experience DevOps CLI Tooling

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asdf

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July 3, 2026 (2 hours old) · ~15 min read

Why I Recommend asdf for Every Repository

Every software repository depends on tools. Even a small project may require one particular version of Go, Node.js, Python, or another runtime. Larger repositories often add Ter...

asdf Developer Experience DevOps CLI Tooling