Author: Matt
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Why I am not using Resharper anymore
I have been a subscriber to JetBrains Resharper for a number of years. Additionally, my employer carries a number of licenses for Resharper, and some teams still use it. But I recently decided to cancel my subscription, and it might be worth a few words as to why. IDEs are uniquely personal To developers, IDEs…
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Tech Tip – Configuring RKE2 Nginx Ingress using a HelmChartConfig Resource
The RKE2 documentation is there, but, well, it is not quite as detailed as I have seen in other areas. This is a quick tip for customizing your Nginx Ingress controllers when using RKE2 Using Nginx Ingress in RKE2 By default, an RKE2 cluster deploys the nginx-ingress Helm chart. That’s great, except that you may…
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Literally every time I go away…
It really truly seems like every time I go away, something funny happens in the lab and stuff goes down. That pattern continued last week. Loads of Travel A previously planned Jamaican getaway butted up against a short-notice business meeting in Austin. Since I could not get a direct flight to either location, I ended…
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Speed. I.. am.. Speed.
“One winner, 42 losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast. A little brekie could be good for me….” My quest for speed lead to using 1TB of data every day…
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Going Banana
That’s right… just one banana. I have been looking to upgrade the Raspberry PI 3 that has been operating as home lab’s reverse proxy. While it would have been more familiar to find another Raspberry Pi 4 to use, their availability is, well, terrible. I found a workable, potentially more appropriate, solution in the Banana…
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Snakes… Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?
What seems like ages ago, I wrote some Python scripts to keep an eye on my home lab. What I did not realize is that little introduction to Python would help me dive into the wonderful world of ETL (or ELT, more on that later). Manage By Numbers I love numbers. Pick your favorite personality…
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My 15 pieces of flair… Cloudflare
With parts of my home lab exposed to the internet for my own convenience, it is always good to add layers of protection to incoming traffic. At a colleague’s suggestion, I took Cloudflare up on their free WAF offering to help add some protection to my setup. As a bonus, I have a much better…
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Badges… We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!
Well… Maybe we do. This is a quick plug (no reimbursement of any kind) for the folks over at Shields.io, who make creating custom badges for readme files and websites an easy and fun task. A Quick Demo The badges above are generated from Shields.io. The first link looks like this: My Github username (spyder007)…
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Building Software Longevity
The “Ship of Theseus” thought experiment is an interesting way to start fights with historians, but in software, replacing old parts with new parts is required for building software longevity. Designing software in ways that every piece can be replaced is vital to building software for the future. The Question The Wikipedia article presents the…
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Speeding up Packer Hyper-V Provisioning
I spent a considerable amount of time working through the provisioning scripts for my RKE2 nodes. Each node took between 25-30 minutes to provision. I felt like I could do better. Check the tires A quick evaluation of the process quickly made me realize that most of the time is spent in the full install…