• Taking Stock

    My wife has a go-to birthday question: Name the best thing and the worst thing about the past year. We realized that she has a habit of asking this for the New Year as well. Many of our family and friends have birthdays that fall around the holiday season, so the question becomes somewhat repetitive.…

  • More GitOps Fun!

    I have been curating some scripts that help me manage version updates in my GitOps repositories… It’s about time they get shared with the world. What’s Going On? I manage the applications in my Kubernetes clusters using Argo CD and a number of Git repositories. Most of the ops- repositories act as “desired state” repositories.…

  • Adding a Little Style

    I jumped the gun on a code syntax highlighter plugin for Wordpress. I now know exactly how many posts I have with code blocks in them.

  • Distributing C# Code Standards with a Nuget Package

    The commercial spirit of the season has me creating all kinds of new packages.

  • Pack it up, Pack it In…

    My package authoring skills lapsed a bit, but a new problem led to a learn and grow opportunity.

  • When a Build is not a Build

    In my experience, the best way to learn a new software system is to see how it is built. That path lead me to some warnings housekeeping, which lead me to a weird issue with Azure DevOps. Housekeeping! In starting my new role, I have been trying to get a lay of the land. That…

  • Do the Right Thing

    My home lab clusters have been running fairly stable, but there are still some hiccups every now and again. As usual, a little investigation lead to a pretty substantial change. Cluster on Fire My production and non-production clusters, which mostly host my own projects, have always been pretty stable. Both clusters are set up with…

  • Git Out! Migrating to GitHub

    Git is Git. Wherever it’s hosted, the basics are the same. But the features and community around tools has driven me to make a change. Starting Out My first interactions with Git happened around 2010, when we decided to move away from Visual SourceSafe and Subversion and onto Git. At the time, some of the…

  • I Did a Thing

    I have jumped into a new open community, this one for 3D modeling. Same rules apply: Share!

  • Stacks on Stacks!

    I have Redis installed at home as a simple caching tool. Redis Stack adds on to Redis OSS with some new features that I am eager to start learning. But, well, I have to install it first. Charting a Course I have been using the Bitnami Redis chart to install Redis on my home K8…