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Your IoT sensors deserve proper observability: MQTT to Prometheus with a Helm chart
May 2024 — because your home produces data worth keeping
Smart home devices generate a constant stream of data. Temperature readings, power consumption, motion events, CO₂ levels, humidity. Most of it disappears into a cloud service or gets forgotten after being displayed on a dashboard for a few seconds.
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.