Goodbye Azure Kubernetes, Hello Hetzner?
On to plan D! After a few good months of experimentation since my last post, I’ve come to the conclusion that Azure is not the place to meet my goals. Let\’s recap on the goals, and how well Azure and…
Goodbye Linode Kubernetes, Hello… Azure Kubernetes?
On to plan C! After a fair amount of googling and noodling, I’ve come to the conclusion that Linodes LKE Kubernetes service can’t do what I want it to, at least in a way that doesn’t feel hacky and get…
Hello, Kubernetes!
As a matter of learning, and to get my personal sites off of the cobbled VPS where they’ve happily lived for a while, I took on migrating them all to a Kubernetes cluster. How hard could it be, right? Or…
How I Work – An Update on Capture
In my last How I Work post, I was much enamored with Bullet Journaling – or BuJo for short – for note capture. As a recap, I had never used a note-taking system that worked the way my brain did, and as such,…
How Do I Work – v4.0
I\’ve been taking a hard look at how I do work. By that, I mean how I chose what work to do and how I arrange my day to make it happen. There have been a few iterations over the…
Goodbye, CoreOS
For my now-retired at-home hosting, and for my first migration to the cloud, I used CoreOS as my hosting OS. It\’s optimized to be a container server and for super-efficient automated deployments. It worked well, and I loved the elegance…
Personal Disaster Recovery – part one
About last year at this time, Susie and I were knee-jerking to the fresh news of my cancer, and the first bucket list thing we jumped on was a long-discussed trip to Hawaii. It was an utterly amazing trip, and…
No time for you…
Ever since we made the move to AT&T Uverse Fiber – and happily said “See ya!” to TimeWarner / Spectrum – we’ve been a household with clocks adrift. NTP (Network Time Protocol) set up on servers didn’t work – although…
WordPress Works!
Finally, after much wrangling with Apache, PHP, WordPress and its multisite configuration, and SSL certificates, I think I have our little network of sites up, usable, and secure. Time will tell.