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Your commit is your CV: how I set my wife up with a CI/CD pipeline she could put on her resume
December 2022 — on the difference between saying you can do something and having the git history to prove it
The first question any serious technical employer asks is: “Can I see something you’ve built?”
Certificate governance without the ceremony: cert-manager + Venafi on k3s
December 2022 — because PKI shouldn’t require a JIRA ticket and three approvals
There’s a version of certificate management that lives in large enterprises. You file a request. A team reviews it. Someone checks a compliance box. Five days later, a certificate lands in your inbox as a .pfx file. You paste it into a UI. Two weeks from now it expires and nobody notices until a monitoring alert fires at 2am.
Two snowboards, one Audi A8, no roof rack: the towball carrier solution
February 2022 — on not accepting that “luxury sedan” and “ski trip” are mutually exclusive
The Audi A8 is not obviously a ski car. No roof rack options, no factory ski bag slot, seats that cost enough to make you nervous about wet gear. The commercial answer to this problem is “buy an estate” or “get a roof box,” neither of which I was prepared to accept without at least trying to solve it properly first.
My Porsche kept spitting out second gear — so I rebuilt the gearbox
November 2021 — on not ignoring what a gearbox is trying to tell you
It starts subtle. You’re lifting off the throttle coming out of a fast corner, already in second, and the lever just… moves. Not violently. Just a gentle migration toward neutral. You push it back. You wonder if you imagined it.
Building a quiet NAS: the part nobody writes about is the vibration
February 2021 — on the noise that comes from spinning rust and how to stop it from travelling
Every NAS build guide covers the same things: which board, which drives, which OS, how many watts. They cover RAID levels, ZFS recordsizes, network throughput. They benchmark transfer speeds and idle power.
Android head unit in a Boxster 986: when the adapter doesn't exist, make it
October 2020 — on the gap between “there’s an adapter for that” and “there’s no adapter for that”
Most modern cars have a standard double-DIN head unit slot. You can buy an Android head unit for €150, an adapter plate for €20, and have navigation, Bluetooth, and a reversing camera in an afternoon. The aftermarket has been doing this since 2010.