kubernetes Introducing k8smaker It became clear that I was employing too many wild west technologies and needed to be a lot more conservative. And learn more. So I proceeded to create k8smaker.
coding On Complexity He said that all the technologies being put in play were unfamiliar, and that is what makes it complex. My immediate response was, "Just because something is unfamiliar does not make it complex."
coding The silliest little piece of code (I use all the time) Tools that work get used repeatedly, and sometimes you reach into your drawer full of tools and realize you don't have the one you're expecting to find at your fingertips.
build system A Simple Auto-Incrementing Version Number for C# There are many solutions out there, but here's the easiest to implement that gets you something for nothing.
kubernetes How Not to Run Kubernetes Storage on Windows 10 There are a lot of Storage systems for Kubernetes. It makes sense to kick the tires on them before deploying one to production. I work on a Windows 10 Pro machine, and I found the easy ways just don't work.
kubernetes Ubiquiti USG and BGP Protocol for Bare Metal Kubernetes How to configure the USG to talk to MetalLB using BGP protocol the right way, so it is automatically applied during provisioning.
hiring How to Attract Great People A dear friend asked me how to tune the interview and job posting to target the best person for the job. Bad jobs often start with bad job postings. Let's unpack that a bit.
command line Using iPXE to Remote Boot RancherOS onto Bare Metal Learnings from setting up MAAS, plus steps on how to configure bare metal servers to network boot RancherOS.
maas Building a Home Cloud in 3 Easy Steps The object is to drive the servers entirely remotely and let them function as throwaway devices, kind of like a homebrew AWS cloud. I am a huge fan of portable solutions, so the brain of the configuration wil live in a Docker container.
k8s Kubernetes for Dummies How to get get something running on Kubernetes in five minutes or less, quickly and easily.
education How Gambling Motivates and Education Doesn't Gambling has figured out that the secret to motivation is reducing the failure cases to weak successes. Education has not.
microsoft Adventures in Windows Subsystem Linux 2 Basic steps to get Linux running as a practically native Windows system.
people What would you tell yourself 20 years ago? A conversation with a school teacher turns a mild-mannered game developer into an intragroup dynamics philosopher.
art The Vocabulary of Art and Programming Pontificating about the art world having developed universal phrases and lingo to impart understanding, but software really hasn't.
game design Obligatory Steve Jobs Post I have found that not only is it hard to do many things proficiently, sometimes all you have to do is one thing really, really well.
development Ten Seconds of Advice Brief advice on how to help your chances of success running an independent game studio, from a veteran developer and studio head.
gnome You don't gnome me, but I wrote the book on middleware Actually, it was just the first chapter in the Game Engine Gems 1 book, but I think it was a rare, almost imperceptibly impactful article.
docker Docker on a Mac Mini There are a surprising number of dead ends with Docker + Mac. Here's what I've run across, hopefully it'll help someone.
