“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” — John Gilmore, 1993 💾 Jacked In (1998) I got the internet in 1998. A 400MHz Celeron processor inside an HP Pavilion, clunky as hell, but beautiful. Windows 98. 56k modem. AOL discs in the mailbox like manna from cyberspace. Within days,
Let’s be honest: most Kubernetes explanations suck. They read like IKEA instructions for a nuclear reactor. Diagrams full of hexagons. Words like orchestrator, pod, and etcd, thrown around like everyone didn’t just Google them thirty seconds ago. So let’s start over. Let’s talk about Kubernetes like
The burnout no observability stack can catch — and no patch can solve. Some days I feel like a wizard at work. I’ll troubleshoot a broken deployment, unravel a race condition, optimize some gnarly Terraform module. I solve problems under pressure, wrangle ambiguity, bring order out of chaos — all before
There are a million blog posts on how to "pick up" a new language. Most of them feel like they were written by someone who never shipped code at 3AM with PagerDuty breathing down their neck. This is how I do it — battle-tested, DevOps-brained, and tuned for curiosity
I’ve written code in a lot of languages. ColdFusion, back when I didn’t know better. PHP when I needed a job. Ruby when I wanted to feel something. Go when I wanted things to work. A little Elixir for the poetry. Java when I had no choice. Python?
Because Sometimes You Need a Knife, Not a Blender The problem with most APIs? They’re built like salad bars: slow, bloated, and full of shit nobody touches. Everything modular, everything abstract, everything wrapped in something else like a birthday gift you didn’t ask for. What we need is
But I was just too busy living my life. In early May of that year, I packed up what little I had in Roanoke, Virginia, and moved to New York City to start over. And somehow, it worked. I think back often to those first few weeks — bombing interviews, scribbling