Fri, August 07 2020
So recently, after spending more time than I should hunting down the source of
an error, I sparked the discussion within my team at work about how we can cut
down on the time to debug, specifically, by making sure that errors aren't
handed back to the caller without forgetting to attach extra information.
We already have a pretty good practice in place to wrap errors with
additional info before we hand them up the stack, however this was missing in
this particular case...
Sun, June 14 2020
This post will go through how to deploy and configure Traefik v2.2 as the ingress controller for your Kubernetes cluster using Kustomize. Specifically without using the IngressRoute CRD, and instead opting to stick with the built-in Ingress Kubernetes resource.
Traefik publishes helm charts for deploying Traefik v1.7, however given Kustomize is now built into the latest versions of Kubectl, this guide will go over how you can use it...
Thu, November 21 2019
Imagine in a frictionless environment, you have a plane on a runway sized
treadmill. The plane sits at the beginning of the treadmill, as if prepared for
a traditional takeoff.
However, instead of rolling forward as usual, as the plane begins to move, the
treadmill moves backwards to match it. This happens perpetually. As the plane
picks up forward velocity, the treadmill detects this and accelerates in the
opposite direction...
Tue, July 09 2019
Back while I was living in New Zealand, I had a fair number of electronics
projects on the go. This was one such project.
I'd been playing around with a couple of LED matrices bought from AliExpress.
The LED's on one of the matrices were the very popular WS2812b variant. These
panels are made up of addressable RGB LED's soldered to a flexible PCB, giving
you three wires out the back -- data, 5V, and ground...
Mon, May 27 2019
This is the story about how I solved my increasing problem with wrist pain.
TLDR, I built a keyboard. And yes, I am crazy enough to rely on it at work as
well. This is going to act as somewhat of a build overview.
RSI, or repetitive strain injury, is a pretty terrifying reality to confront as
a programmer. It makes typing painful, long stretches of doing your job less
than enjoyable. No one wants that...
Sat, May 11 2019
Some photos from a short weekend trip from Berlin to Halle and Leipzig. Being a bit of an architecture nerd, there are definitely too many photos of buildings still on the camera.