I’ve been using Kubernetes successfully for a while, but I felt like I still didn’t fully understand the difference between an Ingress and a LoadBalancer. Whenever I tried to find an explanation I’d find some vague thing like “they are...

I wrote this way back on Nov 11th, 2020. This was around a year after I started learning about leftist politics, so brace for baby leftist talking points. I will probably write a critique of my own critique at some point. If you ever...

We’ve arrived at the next continent on my quest to learn all the countries in the world, so I can complete the “Countries of the World”-quiz on Jetpunk: Asia. Now, I didn’t really learn all the Asian countries as rigorously as the ones...

There's a term in running called a "kick", which refers to the ability to sprint at the end of an endurance-oriented race. Often it leads to anger amongst other competitors, who felt it unfair that they had to lead in front the whole...

I like fake meat but it's not for everyone.

Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and...

The two Tims at Web 2.0 Summit 2009: Berners-Lee and O'Reilly; photo via O'Reilly Conferences. After running our debut event, the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, in Mountain View that October of 2009, my next port of call was the Web 2.0...