Trying to sell the current house and I had posed my 3 blahajs for the video. Got a funny comment on one of the Facebook ads which translates to "are the little plush sharks included with the house?"

Neo/hy/*-fetch isn't just a screenshot you post to Discord. It's a way of life (featuring one vulnerability) 😎

The next generation of network vulnerabilities is here and is pink. As someone told me, "make backdoors cute again"

I was reading The Rust Book, particularly the part on memory and ownership. The last time I tried to read it was a year ago, and it's quite validating that I can actually understand a lot more of what the book is telling me. Alex Rust dev arc :P

friends in the homelab discord taking turns giving me advice on how to dye my hair <3 <3 my heart ;w;

I didn't want to look. I thought only DDR4/5 RAM would be affected. I had bought 128GB of DDR3 server RAM for £50 a couple months ago. Now, the same seller has that same bundle at £260...

Github wrapped, putting 2025 as the year I was most active in open source stuff (unsurprisingly). It's funny how I can clearly see both KubeCon and openSUSE Con in the contributions chart. Also interesting how Python is still my most used language, despite my radical transition to Rust this year.

Another day spent waiting for a CNCF mail. Another day spent swearing at timezones.

I am really happy to have organised and hosted and spoken at the @CloudNativeMauritius meetup today, our last get-together of the year! With some 10 people, 2 of whom joined remotely, it was a fun event with a lot of discussions. I finally got to present on […] [Original post on moris.social]

I did a thing to update my DNS record on Servfail. Smol bash script to check for IP changes, and only if it does change, does it send the GET request to Servfail to update it. Naturally deployed to the K3s homelab, which I find to be overkill...

I have now realised I cannot just use CF as registrar, which vexes me because the pricing is reasonable. I pay $12 a year for each of my 3 .dev domains. Anyone has recommendations for a registrar which won't charge me $30 renewal fees?

With the ongoing RAM prices, may I make a gentle recommendation? Rewrite it in Rust. All of it. Leave no Python application alive.

RE: https://moris.social/@AlexB/115553012468453505 The story gets more dramatic. The same guy who went on a rant telling me to identify as a nonbinary he/they with coloured hair because I write Rust is attending a meetup this Saturday... Where I am presenting KRaft... which is written in Rust […]

I decided to go for it and add KRaft to the @opensuse hackweek for running a cloud platform anywhere. https://hackweek.opensuse.org/25/projects/kraft-a-cloud-platform-built-on-kubernetes Any contributions are always more than welcome!!

Supermarket has black friday and end-of-year sales. I got a smart bulb which does RGB cause that's pretty cool and it was cheap. Also it works on Google Home and Alexa. However, it is a Xiaomi bulb, and it actually needs a Xiaomi account to work -____-

I bring a certain "we should stop attacking the internet" vibe to the group chat that the "we should ban social media for < 16s" people don't seem to appreciate.

I have been tooting waaaay too much recently. I think this is a cry for an Ampere server to add to the homelab :3

RE: https://moris.social/@AlexB/115311966557663263 Finally time to quote-toot my original thread on KRaft, a cloud service based on FOSS tools from across the cloud native landscape. I finally setup DNS for Kraft, isolated from the jank of my homelab. So it is theoretically ready for beta […]

Gave a talk at the Frontend community's annual beach meetup and seized the opportunity to try out my first proper camera (fujifilm sf100fs finepix 11MP 14x zoom) Here's the meetup pictures

We were having a lot of discussions in the @CloudNativeMauritius group chat about the Cloudflare outage and Rust's involvement. Some people brought up Lunduke and his take, so I chose to write a blogpost about why he's talking nonsense. https://alexbissessur.dev/lunduke-rust-nonsense/

Opened port 6443 on my routers, directed it to one of my control plane nodes. nmap from outside: port filtered and Kubernetes remains unreached >:/

A friend of mine was asking an LLM about me. It appears that it was unable to read my blogposts, with "access denied". I assume this is Anubis's doing? It's pretty cool and never expected an LLM to hit a blockade like that :P

Out of curiosity, I checked how many unwraps are in one of by projects. At least it's not like they will ever be reached, right?

I got a split keyboard!! A friend on Discord sent this all the way from the Netherlands :3 It's a lot of fun! Main downsides being I have to relearn to type, and I cannot hide my passwords page under my keyboard anymore.

Gotta go pick up a parcel at the post office. But it's only open 9-5, so I can't go during the week. And on Saturday it's open till 12, which is also hard to do. This is such a stupid situation :/ 4 day work week or shorter work days would be awesome

Had a fun time today getting Cloud Native Mauritius's website running on my homelab after the previous server running it was accidentally nuked without backups. Also spent a minute combining a handful of mysql instances into one mariadb one, so I stop wasting resources with 1 DB server per […]

At the MSCC meetup today, learning about .NET and being told to dye my hair red and green

I got a box from the UK today. My homelab is getting an overdue upgrade from 3*8GB to 3*32GB of RAM. I also got a surface pro 4, 2 10G NICs, 128GB of DDR3 server RAM, and an old fujifilm camera. I am going to be so busy these coming days

A VR headset running Linux? If this means Valve will be working on VR for Linux in the same way they did Proton for the Steam Deck, that will be very interesting :D

I got my KubeCon Europe ticket for next year while it's still on early bird pricing and have significantly less money than I did a couple hours ago. Now looking for a place to stay in Amsterdam, so if anyone knows of a place or is willing to rent me a sofa for a week, please let me know!! Or […]

I (re)discovered 1000eyes on Bandcamp with the three year anniversary of Signalis. I now need to buy quite a bit of music and run a music server :3 Maybe I should setup a something-BSD machine somewhere...

<https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html> The Python Software Foundation has turned down $1.5M in funding from the US government because the new terms for accepting the grant banned the PSF from doing or promoting diversity, equity, or inclusiveness.

Put KRaft posts in a single thread rather than having different ones scattered across my profile and referring to each other - sorry if you already saw those posts 😅

I have made a ton of progress on KRaft, my cloud platform in a box. Yet every time I close one issue, it seems another 3 take its place. Who keeps creating these issues??!!? (me, it's me)

I pay for all CPU, I use all CPU

Registration for KubeCon is open with early bird pricing: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/register/ Hoping and praying that my CFP gets accepted so I can avoid paying $400 for the ticket. Especially that I have to actually pay for lodging this year 🫠

I have the perfect idea for a public transport system as an alternative to cars! Let's have a metro/tram!! And then lobotomise it so that on weekends, you wait 20 minutes for a metro on the primary line, and wait another 20 minutes on the secondary line, so a 7 minute car trip takes 40 minutes! […]

I think the trend of using IPv6 is suffering every step of the way. Couldn't install a package on my VPS with a v6 address because the local mirror's AAAA record points to the link local address 🫠 (relevant authorities notified)

Woah, Mauritius Telecom to give out IPv6 addresses on home plans by next year! And I didn't even have to harass them for it!

I wrote a new blogpost, and this one's a bit special - it's the biggest and most complicated event I've organised so far. For Hacktoberfest, I wanted to drag a bunch of friends from Cloud Native Mauritius to code through the weekend. I wrote all about the experience here […]

Ah yes, it is currently 5:33pm and the metro will be here at 7:21pm. When it is really 9am and the metro is coming in 5 minutes.

My main website, alexbissessur.dev now supports IPv6. At least I think it does, I don't have a way to test that myself really. I got a cloud.mu VPS which has an IPv6 address and reverse proxies to my homelab's public IPv4 address. So DNS-wise the AAAA points to the VPS while the A record […]

I assume people enjoy seeing the cursed Kubernetes clusters I run. Full description below:

Turned one of my Tumbleweed laptops on for the first time in ages. Got 10GB of updates to do. And thanks to @IshSookun for maintaining the openSUSE mirror for making this fast and painless!

Organising a Hacktoberfest event this weekend with the Cloud Native community. If you know of any repos which need contributions, want maintainers, or just want free labour, please send me links!

Wanted to run a Telegram - Matrix bridge. Discovered matterbridge, tried it out, then realised the Matrix library is too out of date for modern Matrix servers. And so of course I spent all afternoon updating it from go-matrix to mautrix. And, it works!

So I made a project for running, basically, a Kubernetes-focused "cloud platform from wish dot com". I initially wanted to host workshops without spending money (or free creds) on CSPs such as AWS, and that's where the idea came from. It has evolved into a really cool project with quite a few […]

Got bitten by buttnami containers when I restarted my cluster and Immich went into a crashloop :D Running a temporary Redis pod till the chart's updated with Valkey.

Had a nice time upgrading my work laptop from openSUSE leap 15.whatever to 16.0. It was very straightforward with the migration tool. Now I think I will right a wrong and upgrade it straight to Tumbleweed. I like that I can do changes between streams such as Leap, Tumbleweed, Slowroll, or even […]

I got the mail after I went to sleep 😅 Got rejekted, sadly.