growse.com Pointless musings

So I’ve got three nodes in my homelab k8s cluster (celebrated its 7’th birthday the other day 🎈 ) that are lovely little lenovo M75 boxes.

Tools as Identity Programmers love tools.

Eurgh I’ll be brief, and opinionated.

Too many computers, not enough desks When at home, I tend to do computery-based things in one place, at a nice desk with a bunch of monitors, keyboard, the usual.

A bit of history The idea of a version number has existed for a while now: back in 1972 the TENEX system running on a PDP-10 had the concept of a “version number” field as part of the file name: The version number of a file enumerates successive versions…

I was today years old when I got bitten by some minor assumptions on how git-lfs works.

Out with the Old I occasionally play bass in a local Big Band - it’s great fun, and an ideal way to Get Out Of The House.

I had to re-build one of my kubernetes nodes recently, and so wearily downloaded the latest debian ISO, copied it to my Ventoy USB key and booted into the installer.

I decided to follow in the footsteps of around 400 million other people, and purchased an iPad.

For the last 12 months or so CityFibre have been digging up most of Wakefield, which happens to be roughly where I live.