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I have a confession to make.

I had a physical recently, and my doctor was pleased to report that everything was normal.

This week is a BrettOps first.

I've been working on a new project called cici-tools (pronounced "see-see").

Customizing SD card images is the worst—having to boot the device over and over again, and then grabbing the SD card to copy it back to your system, only to repeat it all over again the next time you need to make a change.

There are countless services nowadays for hosting static sites: GitHub, GitLab, Netlify, Surge, Porkbun, DigitalOcean, even Cloudflare.

This article will talk about how to build a Kubernetes cluster that's less work to operate, self-healing, and, in general, awesome.

Infrastructure as code, or IaC for short, is often touted as a solution for all the world's problems.

Config files are everywhere.

There are good and bad reasons to start a business.

HashiCorp's Terraform is a powerful tool that enables higher-order infrastructure management across tools and providers.

There's something I have to say.

Static sites are great.

A lot has been happening in AI lately, and quite frankly, I find the whole thing terrifying.

If you don't know that it exists, the coreutils install command is incredibly easy to overlook.

I've been wanting to try Rook for a while.

YAML gets a lot of flak for being too complex, and with good reason.

Sandwich synopsis When crafting Dockerfiles for Debian-based containers, you'll frequently run into snippets that look like this: # hadolint ignore=DL3008 RUN apt-get update -y \ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ inkscape \ &&

There are two sides to the problem of continuous integration: On one hand, you need to make sure that new changes don't break existing code.

Once upon a time, I worked on deep-embedded hardware that was locked down, air-gapped, and otherwise running the most minimal of minimal things that was available.

Have you ever written a Python script to solve a problem or scratch some itch, only to think to yourself, "I wish there was a tool that just did this"?

I really like the Lighthouse service (now PageSpeed Insights) that Google offers, but like anything that has to be done manually, if I need to go to the page to run these reports, I'll never do it.

I'm a huge fan of containers.

A few months ago, I saw this very eloquent blog post from Signal announcing the impending end of SMS support in the Signal Android app.

Since this website is created with the Zola static site engine, and because storing large files in Git is bad for you, I needed a simple way to host images for this site.

The other day, I ran into the age-old situation where a Python package failed to build because the Python.h header file was missing.

In this article, we'll develop a container for Inkscape, allowing us to incorporate it into a CI/CD pipeline.

There are a lot of services that require you to provide a phone number as a condition of using the service.

Note: This post was NOT sponsored by GitLab.

Docker Hub rate limits container image pulls.

Sometimes you do something in your terminal that turns out to be really awesome, and you want to save it.

Stream of consciousness on the piano.

I wrote this song during a period where I was taking piano lessons, and decided to try my hand at creating sheet music for it.

This song was a rare attempt to produce a MIDI song without using a click track.