Alex's Blog

And with DevCon over, that's half of the year down, and I can finally start getting some rest and working on my projects!

I am not proud of this.

... and a long story about some antiquated biology books I picked up at a fair a few years ago.

Round 3 of KubeCon, here we go!

What the title says.

So you're attending KubeCon, possibly for the first time.

Let's start with the usual disclaimer: I am not a developer!

Imagine this: it's Valentine's Day and instead of having anything special on the schedule, you decide "let's fix this one issue on my homelab which has been annoying everyone since forever!".

Following the short-lived downtime of Cloudflare in December, I replied to Domi on Mastodon, asking for a beta code for SERVFAIL, an authoritative nameserver network.

Let me start by saying that I am not a developer, I am a sysadmin who occasionally writes code, that being in Python, Laravel and Rust.

With Halo Campaign Evolved, the second remake of Combat Evolved, having been announced and the subsequent wars on social media, I was reminded of my times playing Halo Reach and 4 a long time ago on my Xbox 360.

I organised a thing...

I never told this story thoroughly enough and my brother is doing his A-levels right now and it's reminding me of my own adventures.

It's a bit funny to me to finally properly reveal this project.

Disclaimer, this is absolutely not a technical blogpost about scaling infrastructure.