Nicklas Frahm

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@ibuildthecloud Did you try charm bracelet's crush?

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@GergelyOrosz I uses GitLab for many years until I wanted people to find my repos, but the platform is great

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@davidfowl While I love Python in general, it's pkg mgmt is madness. 5 different pkg mgrs where each has different dep lists and lockfiles. Plus different ways of managing a virtual environment. If this ain't ridiculous enough, the pypi name also doesn't match the import name. 😭

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@rakyll I have been playing with a similar idea. In my my case, I'd love to have a library that implements a distributed lock, a key value store or similar, but in such a way that you as an infrastructure provider can swap the implementing technology at runtime.

What were you thinking?

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@ibuildthecloud Relatable. I occasionally smile when thinking how my teacher in literature class compared my short story to an instruction to build bridges, attesting little creativity. Yet, here I am bringing structure to things in a creative way. Maybe I didn't understand the hint at the time.

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@ibuildthecloud And that setup works great for a lot of things, but if you want to do crazy things like encryption at rest, you need to jump through a lot of hoops on a regular OS. Talos has the option for a networked KMS, which is amazing.

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@GergelyOrosz At my previous company, we saw a huge improvement to the quality of the knowledge base when we implemented docs-as-code. Keep the source of truth close to the natural context of the dev in MD. Create a culture where PRs must include docs. Publish to target (Confluence) via CI.

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@ibuildthecloud SOPS with age is pretty cool. Otherwise git-crypt could be an option that is dead-simple.

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@mrlesk @ibuildthecloud See also: https://t.co/542aPyE4Y9

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TIL: @ in Polish is commonly referred to as "małpa" or "monkey" in English. 🐒

Courtesy of my wonderful Polish girlfriend.

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@ibuildthecloud @confusedqubit Would VPAs not help with that? I heard some people were quite successful in reducing cost that way.

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I've been thinking a lot about the multi-cluster "problem" in Kubernetes. Using NATS superclusters would most likely not magically solve all problems, but it makes me think if beyond CRI, CNI and CSI, we may need a Container Database Interface (CDBI) to allow for innovating etcd?

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@ibuildthecloud I am quite happy with Svelte + Flowbite, but if you want to go the "I hate that the JS framework ecosystem has breaking changes every second Tuesday"-way, you might have a look at: https://t.co/LppJFcUaFL

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@ibuildthecloud Did you have a look at https://t.co/lYj7nYRQjz? It's an evolution of https://t.co/pxUiPOT3PX and the only thing I find lacking is good AuthN and AuthZ. Managing TLS certs for mTLS fields a bit clunky.

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@urlichsanais The garbage truck, because it beeps when I reverse.

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@urlichsanais Didn't we all watch the show and / or movie snow piercer to see how that ended. 👀

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@googlecloud is there any reason why you allow https://t.co/ksIZCPCRfu but not https://t.co/4dVKoZBBEj in Google Cloud Run? Smells like an arbitrary limitation to me. FYI, I am deploying via the Google Console UI.

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@ibuildthecloud @briggsl @ibuildthecloud Pulumi also supports remote state in S3 if that is the problem.
https://t.co/hg9EcbGBeS

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Hey @Cisco, a local company donated a Nexus 3048 to me and I would love to upgrade it to the most recent firmware. Your paywall is making that impossible. Any chance you can support #sustainability and provide me with the two firmware images I need to upgrade to 9.3?