I regularly perform clean installations on my Mac, PC, and Linux machines. To track how the initial setup process evolves over time, I’m documenting my installation steps. This serves as both a per...

Audience Kubernetes Homelab users, Tailscale users Introduction In this post I tell the story of my attempt to replace an existing workable but cumbersome solution for Tailscale traffic rout...

Audience SRE, Dev ops, Platform engineering Introduction The purpose of this post is to assist you in starting your Docker learning journey by sharing resources, tips, and methods that I have acq...

Audience: Platform engineers, Kubernetes admins, SREs, dev ops engineers Intro This post is the first in a series on Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ). What is the cluster API Provider for Az...

Audience for this post: software developers I’m writing this post on my phone backstage at Seatle Symphony on the last night of 2022. I’m here to sing in the chorus in Beethoven’s 9th symphony fo...

I’ve recently been spending time getting back into the groove with distributed computing after a decade or so of absense. As part of that I’ve been kicking the tires of .NET Core for the first tim...

For reasons that I’ll cover in a future post, I’ve been experimenting with LibAngle of late. Angle, otherwise known as Almost Native Graphics Layer, is a translation layer that emulates OpenGL cal...

This github pages blog is powered by Jekyll, a static site generator. Because I’ve been using the iPad for content creation and because the posts are written in raw markdown, I’ve found it quite h...

One of the themes that has resonated increasingly with me over the past few years is innovation in and proliferation of programing languages. With a background of tinkering in BASIC, Visual Basic ...

I’ve been playing with gRPC and microservice recently (more on that later). One aspect that I’ve needed to figure out as part of that particular adventure has been getting gRPC endpoint running sec...