Blog by Simon Frey

Yerba Mate isn’t one flavour.

DISCLAIMER: Swimming, tubing, and floating is officially FORBIDDEN in all Munich waterways!

I’ve had to explain nuclear fusion a lot lately to people hearing about it for the first time.

If you’ve used dig domain.com ANY lately to see all DNS records for a domain, you’ve probably noticed it doesn’t work anymore.

If you’ve tried pivoting nmap through an SSH jump host, you’ve probably hit one of two outcomes: every port comes back as filtered, or every port comes back as open.

I’ve been running Plausible for my website analytics for over four years.

My personal website, simon-frey.com, now runs on a self-managed Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner Cloud.

I wanted a cheap, production-grade homelab Kubernetes cluster.

There’s a question that comes up in a lot of infrastructure teams sooner or later: should we manage our Kubernetes resources with Terraform?

There is a lot of noise right now about letting AI “fix” your infrastructure (be it via aws cli commands, or in the case for this article: kubernetes).

There is this decade old discussion: Cloud vs.

I really do enjoy coding.

You see them in meeting rooms, at family gatherings, in government offices.

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT or Llama require very powerful and expensive hardware to function properly.

Using cloud services like Microsoft Azure often raises questions about data protection, especially when it comes to processing sensitive data within the EU.

You know those days when everything feels wrong from the moment you open your eyes?

This is a thought I struggle with a lot: Do I want it enough?

Look, I’m going to be straight with you: Most of what you think you know about AI is probably wrong.

As you integrate AI systems into critical business processes, they become a stronger target for cyberattacks.

Watch a child for a day, and you’ll notice something peculiar about their relationship with motion.

Read this article BEFORE you pitch Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, LanceDB,… to your boss.

I am currently building an AI video cutting tool (10LevelUp.com) and as a launch strategy, I want to add it to a few of those “AI Tools/There is an AI for this” website lists.

Install golang in a somewhat recent version in Ubuntu is quite annoying.

Black Friday is not just for big retailers; it’s a golden opportunity for indiehackers and SaaS companies to shine.

It is a sunny day here in Lisbon, I am walking by the central station and hear a street musician.

Do you have plans how your life should look like.

If there is one thing everyone hates, it is a leader who claims to be still “one of the pack”.

Are you running into any of the following postgres connection limit errors pq: sorry, too many clients already pg: too many connections for database "exampledatabase" pg: too many connections for role "examplerole" Yes?

Managing a project from start to finish is like a journey; on this journey, there are project management challenges that you may face, and you have to overcome them to complete the project.

For a project to be completed just as planned from the beginning, there must be a set management system to guide the team throughout the project life cycle.