Late last year I parted ways with Hashnode as the platform of choice for my blog. They pivoted a bit too far into the generative AI space which — to me for a blogging platform — made little to no sense. What? You write …
I tend to look at a lot of log output throughout the day as part of my role as platform engineer. This obviously extends to any backend, or ops-related, role. One little niggle that always gets to me is tailing output …
I’m not super-active on Instagram these days and Threads was a real let down. I have a dormant Mastodon account, but find myself being quite happy on Bluesky at the moment. Who knows how long that will last. Having …
Responding to company chat messages in a mocking and sarcastic tone is one of my favourite past times. Classic engineer snark as it were. We’re all in on the joke. However, the artful nuances of snark via online …
As is the case with any seasoned DevOps engineer, I have a set of tools in my kit that I simply cannot live without. If I had to distill them into a top-5 list it would be the following.
Previously, last blog post I wrote covered how to make a quick escape with your precious hoard of custom Slack emojis. It was fairly well-received, but didn’t quite cover the next step in the migration process; how …
As is stupid tradition, whenever I start at a new company, one of the first things I like to do while getting settled in is upload my favourite emojis to whatever real-time messaging platform is in use. I know it’s …
If you’ve spent any time job hunting in the tech industry, you’ve had to deal with recruiters. I like to joke around with my peers about how they’re a necessary evil, but in all seriousness, great …