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Facebook Breakup: Why I’m Finally Saying Goodbye to Meta
Facebook has reached a tipping point for me, and not in a good way. The value I get from seeing updates from friends and family—despite the algorithm trying to show me relevant content—no longer outweighs the privacy concerns and time I’m wasting on the platform. You Are the Product As MetaFilter noted back in 2010: “If…
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Rest in peace, Kris
On November 21, 2024, Kristine Arges, my ex-wife and mother to Bonnie, passed away after a multi-year struggle with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). She was a great and dedicated parenting partner. Divorced parenting can be hard, and with Kris, her dedication and love for Bonnie came through again and again. I can’t think of a better…
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Suicide Mission – The American Prospect
Absolutely insane and sad story of how Boeing “improved” its defect count by firing and blackballing all the folks who found and counted those defects. How they chased stock price over quality at nearly every opportunity. And how a whistleblower ended up dead. Read more at prospect.org
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Goodbye Azure Kubernetes, Hello Hetzner?
On to plan D! After a few good months of experimentation since my last post, I’ve come to the conclusion that Azure is not the place to meet my goals. Let\’s recap on the goals, and how well Azure and my deployment skills were able to meet each: As alluded to above, WordPress with Azure…
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Goodbye Linode Kubernetes, Hello… Azure Kubernetes?
On to plan C! After a fair amount of googling and noodling, I’ve come to the conclusion that Linodes LKE Kubernetes service can’t do what I want it to, at least in a way that doesn’t feel hacky and get expensive. My goals – and working on this migration has helped sharpen these: LKS hit…
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Hello, Kubernetes!
As a matter of learning, and to get my personal sites off of the cobbled VPS where they’ve happily lived for a while, I took on migrating them all to a Kubernetes cluster. How hard could it be, right? Or rather, how many learning opportunities could there be in this endeavor? Let’s discuss a few.…
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How I Work – An Update on Capture
In my last How I Work post, I was much enamored with Bullet Journaling – or BuJo for short – for note capture. As a recap, I had never used a note-taking system that worked the way my brain did, and as such, nothing ever stuck until Bullet Journaling. Its solid, simple, flexible capture that just works. How…
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How Do I Work – v4.0
I\’ve been taking a hard look at how I do work. By that, I mean how I chose what work to do and how I arrange my day to make it happen. There have been a few iterations over the last year, and I keep getting better and better at it. All In My Head…
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Goodbye, CoreOS
For my now-retired at-home hosting, and for my first migration to the cloud, I used CoreOS as my hosting OS. It\’s optimized to be a container server and for super-efficient automated deployments. It worked well, and I loved the elegance behind the design, even though I never did multi-node automated CI/CD deployments with it. I…
But why is it that way?
Life, travel, and random deep dives