Definitely not sycamore gap

Came to prepare my office for the day, found this

Took kahlűa to cool off in the waterfalls. Found a horse

This morning just before sunrise

It's raining. Kahlűa was never allowed to lie outside in the rain at the beach. Something tells me she loves her new home

It's a little foggy this morning

New house

Today, we published @rawkode.dev's first editorial! ArgoCD's UI is great, but Flux's architecture is inevitable.

I ran an experiment on YouTube. I deleted my entire history, subscriptions and liked videos then just started watching shorts to see how long it took. I got my first AI slop video served after approx 3h of watch time.

Delighted to welcome you as one of our speakers, Xavier! We're looking forward to your talk! 🚀 Join us: cnsmunich.ticketbutler.io/en/e/cnsmuni... #opensource #CloudNative #kubernetes #cnsmunich

A few years ago I wrote 3 (very) short stories that were kinda loosely linked together. In two of them I killed characters. At the weekend I read something real but relevant so went back to those stories. I've now written 6 stories and 4 are dead. All very deliberate accidents. Oops.

A couple of days ago I wrote an essay response to Uwe Friedrichsens excellence blog series on his "Thoughts on AI and software development." This is that essay. No squirrels were harmed in its writing. choclab.net/2025/06/19/s...

I finally bit the bullet and decided it was high time I tried once again to maintain a blog. I can absolutely 100% pinky promise that this will not last more than 3 posts before I forget where I parked the domain - I'm simply not that organised but until then - you can find it here choclab.net

Oh hey look! Want to come take over my job? Want to work with some increadible people? This job is 🔥hot🔥 Happy to chat about it if anyone wants.

My first experience with voice recognition was this parrot called prody from creative labs that flew around the screen and "reacted" to voice. Years later came Siri, Google assist and even Bixby None of them could understand a full blown Lancashire accent WTF makes you think your AI can?

This months newsletter is now out! 🎉 ✨ May 2025 ✨ https://cloudnative.now/2025-may/

A fun little project I've been working on for the last few weeks bmx is a bubblemix driven Tmux session and Kubeconfig context manager written in go When dealing with lots of clusters every day it's easy to get lost where you are. I wrote this to help me maintain my sanity github.com/mproffitt/bmx

So much in this months edition! 🤯

Flux v2.5 is out 🎉 This release is jam-packed with new features! We have integrated CEL to enable custom health checks, added support for GitHub App auth, ephemeral environment for Pull Requests & Merge Request and so much more. #fluxcd #gitops #kubernetes fluxcd.io/blog/2025/02...

Highly experimental operator/controller for running local clusters (kind, etc) in the hub-spoke model. A weekends fun with kubebuilder, kind, Linux and IPTables github.com/mproffitt/ku...

Something to do on Sunday. Sharing the GPU with a vCluster running inside a kind cluster. This turned out to be easier than I expected. gist.github.com/mproffitt/a8...

It's my better half @roshanathambyrajah.bsky.social last night in Spain before flying back to Manchester to face the ice and snow so I cooked Donald with cauliflower and potato cheese in plum, tangerine and white wine sauce. This is definitely one of my better creations.

One day, I am going to sample the dog snoring and make it into a masterpiece...

I have a BIG question today. Will #kro replace @crossplane.io #Crossplane Compositions? youtu.be/8zQtpcxmdhs #Kuberentes #kro #Crossplane

Spent part of Christmas completely re-theming my shell so all colour-schemes move over to TokyoNight. Also writing a small helper plugin for tmux that offers a set of quick commands which overlay my session so I don't have to interrupt my workflow to quickly check something.

Up until 2am playing dice with the family, up at 7 walking off the hangover whilst the dog played ball in the sea. Now ready for turkey 2.0

🎄 Kubernetes admins, may your clusters scale, your logs be clear, and your alerts stay silent this holiday season. 🎁 Here’s to a festive season with zero downtime and deployments as smooth as fresh snow. Happy holidays from all of us at Giant Swarm! 🎅

We're coming up to the end of the year and if I look back at all the shit I've done this year, it's been absolutely insane.

hola folks we did the @giantswarm.io hackathon and @notapipeline.bsky.social and i kind of built a prototype of a multi-cluster management system using @kcp.io so i thought i'd write some stuff down lfg

Never done this BlueSky thing before but lets give it a try and kick things off with my most recent composition Echos of the Río Este, a short symphonic/tone poem inspired by my Easter break in Touguinhó, Portugal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAuQ...