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This resonates mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

The zen of using the `latest` tag of a docker image with auto upgrade enabled

I haven’t read about SRAM since my PhD 😅

My little cluster is getting into shape. - miniflux for RSS - continuwuity + n8n for automation (not used yet) - soju for IRC - garage for easy hosting of static files

So XMPP is a little weird. I wanted to use it has a n8n control plane of sorts but I think Matrix will be a better fit

Claude Code does not deal with frustration very well.

Wrapping Code Comments #devopsish

I really don’t like the pets vs cattle DevOps Analogy It’s more like pottery vs 3D printing

The bliss of watching all the VMs running my k3s cluster being destroyed and recreated, and everything comes back to life.

oh no they scraped your stuff without permission oh no

What can go wrong?

2026 basically

i'm back on IRC 😎

skill issue

just fixed tracey hover — so you can see the rule you're implementing just by hovering it github.com/bearcove/tra...

My favorite time of a hobby project.

I have deployed a miniflux instance tonight. If you are looking for a RSS reader and don’t mind it’s not professional grade SLA feel free to reach out

Claude being like “your idea is nice but for your *scale* that’s no use, let’s go back to *my* idea.” I mean, excuse me? you’ll spend the next 10 minutes exploring my idea is what will happen.

I can now redeploy my cluster control plane without my website to go down 🎉.

hi folks! long time no see. i’m officially open to work again, primarily interested in the dx + devtools + ai space if anyone needs a principal engineer or technical product manager with 16+ years in the industry, my DMs are open! linkedin.com/in/leostera github.com/leostera

One post to go and no more 2024 entries on my homepage. Three and the same is true for 2025 😁. I have two planned already. We’ll see when the third lands!

Blogged something out of frustration today 😅

So, for real: when does the rain stop in France??

This week-end I learned BetterStack has a Terraform provider and I think it is beautiful.

So debugging with Claude reminds me a lot of that feelings of having to watch someone else doing all the keystrokes via a Meet room. In my case we were debugging a k3s cluster issue and it understands that a lot better than me so it makes sense that I take the copilot seat.

“Good question.” Claude said. And the user knew: all the reassuring comments the agent made in the past few minutes were probably worthless.

Having Claude debugging a kubernetes issue on its own is mesmerizing

My little k3s setup is coming along nicely. Two VMs, journal logs and hardware metrics pushed to BetterStack. Next step is actually deploy something there 😄.

Unsurprisingly, I’m not the first one noticing the similarities: tante.cc/2026/01/15/s...

After the fast food and fast fashion industry, are we about to see the emergence of the fast software industry?

holy moly my cluster boots now.

gotta say, deploying a k3s cluster on Vultr + CoreOS + Ignition is harder than I thought.

I’m all in with the FedoraOS + Ignition way of deploy things™ but oh my god how annoying it is to get it right at first. I need to stop creating and destroying VMs that are costing me 2cts each time and try on local VMs 😂

the world if "ps | grep xyz" didn't show "grep xyz" in the output

Week-end challenge: setup a simple k3s cluster.

I’m resuming trying to use Claude Code in a way that would fit an engineering process. I’m using an issue to test the command that I’m implementing: github.com/lthms/vee/is... I like it because it’s not a trivial one. Like, I really wasn’t sure about the best way to implement this.

People will tell you being polite to a code assistant is just a waste of tokens. Meanwhile, Claude sometimes starts its prompts to subagents with “Please.”

So upgrading once’s firmware does help restoring sound on Linux

Specifically, the kind of person who, despite being largely on "the same side" as you on the broader issues, will come out knives swinging at the smallest slight, real or perceived, and then deflect and blame-shift and put words in your mouth to justify it. I don't need people like that in my life.

I can now start new Claude instances inside Docker containers with a few keystrokes

I’m getting bold with my “I don’t like Claude Code vanilla TUI’s UX, let's vibe code something better.” I’m still looking for the #$WORK formula, but for personal projects, I don’t see a way back to coding myself, and that makes me nostalgic.

Even though AI agents make me more productive: when I use them, I end up working more, not less! It’s such a contradiction: a thing that should be saving time ends up taking away more overall time… A reason I find it hard to believe AI will lead to fewer hours/days worked…

Wouldn’t have guessed I’d missed 2025 so hard so quickly (and 2025 wasn’t great when you think about it so it’s telling)

Witnessed at #$WORK today; misusing a gant chart to show a flamegraph in mermaid Nice

Reflecting on what happened in January. It was an intense month on my side, *for sure*.

The Shape of Leadership #devopsish

Year in review: 2025. Worked on my OCaml static site generator and then used it: 164 posts, RSS, tags, search, and images. alexleighton.com/posts/2025-1...