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Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect action, ...
The Internet Archive has a new book: VANISHING CULTURE. (Digital copy is free.) According to a Pew Research Center report, 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are no longer accessible. But that’s not the whole story. In a new study published ...
My regular schedule of CSS and HTML tips will return after this brief look at the sorry state of the web and tech industry. It’s grim. “Our press secretary, Sean Spicer, gave alternative facts to that… Alternative facts - Kellyanne ...
The new Steam Controller verdict is in: James likes it. And now it’s back out again, as Julian has also been poking and prodding at Valve’s made-for-PC controller ahead of its release on May the 4th. Has this second pair ...
How kube-scheduler picks a node: 13 framework stages, 14 Filter plugins, 9 Score plugins, live preemption demo.
I spoke at Codemotion Madrid and had a blast!
GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I moved projects to Bitbucket, back ...
A figure walks away from a cracking corporate tower toward humans connecting peer-to-peer/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp/images/ai-is-not-the-villain.webp Hey all, I want to take a moment to clarify what I think is happening with jobs, AI, and tech in general right now. The common narrative ...
The cloud is convenient until it isn't. You upload your photos, sync your contacts, click through the cookie banners. Then prices go up again or you read about a family that lost their entire Google account over a medical photo ...
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, memory, ...
Learn how to work around the Python machinery to resolve an explicit lazy import manually. A couple of articles ago I wrote about how you could inspect a lazy import. Apparently, you can use a similar trick to check the ...
The latest Intel processors, Core Ultra Series 3 a.k.a. Panther Lake, look awesome. They are fast in benchmarks, can consume very little power, enabling a full day of work and
A single figure at a peak with tendrils of light extending outward, faint silhouettes dissolving below/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp/images/ai-layoffs-arent-about-ai.webp Let me try to explain these AI layoffs. The issue is the vast difference in quality of employee between the top 10% an...
I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we code, but it’s not making our software 10✕ better: Faster individuals don’t ...
Today Sabastian Sawe ran an historic sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race. A marathon is around 42 kilometres, aka 26 miles in freedom units (we use miles in the UK too but not for running distances). I feel the record ...
80 years old and killing it.
Sundays are for realising that you aren't who you thought you were. You thought you were Jonathan Frakes. You thought you'd starred in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and 1995 video game Multimedia Celebrity Poker. You thought you'd played ...
Raw coding speed isn’t the bottleneck. Alignment is the bottleneck. That seems to be a zeitgeist-y theme lately. If you’re using AI to code, maybe you’re feeling it. You can code more and faster. And clearly a boatload of other ...
I’m sitting in the pit lane at Donington Park circuit. My car’s a 1992 Mercedes 190E Evo 2, a blocky German touring car ideal for close-quarters racing. I’m hoping I’ll be able to get it into first gear. You see, ...
A Conversation With Claude on Deutsch, Knowledge, and the PAI Algorithm/images/blog/conversation-with-claude-on-deutsch-and-the-pai-algorithm/header.webp/images/blog/conversation-with-claude-on-deutsch-and-the-pai-algorithm/header.webp This morning I had a long and extraordinary voice conversation...
This weekend, the decorating begins. Yes, I have bitten off more than I can chew, but what is life if not enthusiastically inviting choking hazards? I'll be removing cabinets, sanding and priming carpentry, cleansing walls with sugar soap, and, if ...
If you’ve ever been as frustrated as I am at Ubuntu’s–technically, systemd’s–bog stubborn refusal to use the DNS servers you specify in your network configuration, this is the post for you. I personally think it’s Bloody Stupid Johnson levels of ...
Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software project is about to become the hardest part you’ve ever ...
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Auth and SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained kubelet API authorization to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.36! The KubeletFineGrainedAuthz feature gate was introduced as an opt-in alpha feature in ...
Stop writing Dockerfiles from scratch. A Docker Captain walks through docker init, layer caching, multi-stage builds, and docker debug for 2026.
This pseudo-truth just bugs me. I hear it all the the time. People saying they choose Safari as a browser because it’s better for their battery. But there isn’t any data (that I know of) that proves that Safari is ...
I've been thinking a lot about hands this week. Weird little things, covered in fingers and nails, always clenching and unclenching. Though, for once, they're not on my mind because I can't shake the realisation that they're basically boney squids ...
Big tech giveth, and big tech taketh away
Every step of what happens when you run kubectl run nginx on Kubernetes. From argv to etcd Raft, scheduler, CRI, CNI, runc, and PLEG.
Fork Around and Get EmailSponsor FAFOFM"Everyone is a beginner at one point." Even one of the creators of Kubernetes. If you're listening to this podcast then Joe has had an impact on what you do. He's worked on everything from ...
Yesterday, I opened Discord to a message from my friend Bastian Allgeier that I had never quite seen in all the years I’ve been building sites with his Kirby CMS. “Today we are releasing our biggest security release in the ...
After several years of development, User Namespaces support in Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release. This is a Linux-only feature. For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless technologies, this has been a ...
… everything. I need to know less, but I know more. Trying to cultivate a life which allows me to know less while still participating in society requires me to...
I get this question a lot so wanted to summarize what I've been up to all in one place. In 2026.01 I started my 16 week parental leave for my first born. Here's what I did. Parenting First and foremos...
If you spend enough time in US business or finance conversations, one word keeps showing up: equity. Coming from a German-speaking, central European background, I found it surprisingly hard to fully internalize what that word means. More than that, I ...
Everyone should make music in some shape or form. You don’t even have to be very good at it.
Hi All! 🤗 The Latin word curare means “to take care of.” It’s the root of curator – a person whose work is not to create, but to care. To select, to arrange, to provide context. In a museum, the ...
If you run Kubernetes on Linux with SELinux in enforcing mode, plan ahead: a future release (anticipated to be v1.37) is expected to turn the SELinuxMount feature gate on by default. This makes volume setup faster for most workloads, but ...
As I have been preparing slides for my coming talk at foss-north on April 28, 2026 I figured I could take the opportunity and share a glimpse of the current reality here on my blog. The high quality chaos era, ...
Containers aren't VMs. They're Linux processes. A Docker Captain explains namespaces, cgroups, and how Docker really works on your Mac in 2026.
Coding is a Meta-Task/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp/images/blog/coding-is-a-meta-task/header.webp I think a lot of people are confused about modern AI models being mostly "coding models", and thinking that because of this they're not good for other types of work. I think that's th...
There recently has been a lot of noise about quantum computing breakthroughs recently after Google's articles Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear and Safeguarding cryptocurrency by disclosing quantum
For the past couple months I've been writing High-Level Rust which gives ~80% of its benefits with ~20% of its pain. One of the biggest pieces of feedback I've gotten is why not just use a high-level ...
Editors: Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, Utkarsh Umre Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.36 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development ...
