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How I manage my personal notes for maximum access and minimal data loss...

My first foray into data recovery has been both educational and, blissfully, not too stressful. You always hear tales of damaged hard drives and complete data loss and think “that’ll never happen to me”. Well, it finally has happened to me, and thankfully the outcome has been pretty good (all things considered), and I’ve learned a bit along the way.

In the final part of my website redesign, I finish things off and simplify by merging my blog with my website, inspired by striving to be simple and other personal sites I’ve come across in the last year or so...

Documenting a neat solution to the problem of enforcing OPA policies against resources, but only when they have been created by a user (as opposed to those created by an internal Kubernetes controller)...

Almost all organisations assign levels to their employees, and engineering is no different. But what are the alternatives to engineering levels, what might we gain by avoiding engineering levels, and how do we get the the more beautiful feature that a level-less work environment offers?...

Documenting and providing potential solutions for a beginner OPA Gatekeeper gotcha that I ran into recently...

Retiring software systems is hard work, especially at a big organisation. The longer a system spends out in the world, the more users come to rely on it. But all good things must come to an end, and at some point it will come time to retire your system. This is where the fun begins!... (external link, opens in a new tab)

In the second part of my website redesign, I think a bit about technology choices and design, and then end up stopping abruptly for a year and half...

When I was young and naive, I built a website for myself. It’s no-longer fit for purpose, and needs a facelift. This is the first part of a multi-part series, focussing on some of the design considerations of this new skouf.com....

Investigating an outage caused by AWS Transit Gateways and some quirks of handling TCP.... (external link, opens in a new tab)

Kubernetes 1.21 supports graceful node shutdown, for gracefully terminating pods when a node is shutting down. This post explains how to configure this feature on EKS....

Recently I’ve been experimenting with a new technique for making incredibly fast garrums. This article documents some of my findings when experimenting with making garrum from mushrooms....