On DevOps

I want several ways through a blocked network without changing the address my accounts see. The first hop gets me through; the second is the exit I chose.

Tasks, projects, reading notes, things I want to remember. An agent can help with all of them, provided the note on my phone actually reaches its filesystem.

A pinned tab can keep running Monday's JavaScript while a fresh page loads before its chunks finish uploading. A version marker helps with the first problem; publishing index.html last addresses the second.

A long migration should be easy to pause and resume. An old PHP-to-Symfony rewrite taught me how to move a large Bazel repository without stopping the release train.

Sometimes a browser needs to be in another country while the rest of the laptop stays put. SSH, Tailscale, and a SOCKS5 proxy make that possible.

An MCP tool that understands what you mean, not just what you type. Search for "fear" and find "anxiety", "dread", and "terror".

Updating aspect_rules_ts to 3.5.2 broke our pipeline with a missing BAZEL_BINDIR. The workaround depended on how Bazel combined action environments.

We all love to automate things, right? So, you remember that lonely pet project of yours that you've been working on for a while now? It's too small for a proper solution like k8s to seem reasonable, but you still want to deploy it somewhere and have it running.

As a web developer, I frequently use a lot of command line tools to make my life easier. I prefer to be able to assemble a computer from whatever hardware I want, so I don't like Macs and stuff like this. Linux desktops are good enough our days, but I love to play video games from time to time.

Who needs all those paid certificate providers while we have such a brilliant project as Let's Encrypt?