Long Strange Trip

  • Snooping on your Kubernetes nodes containers without ssh’ing to it: dink

    Sometimes you have this issue. You are developing, you are being lazy with image tags. You just want to keep pulling ‘latest’. But, caching, how does it work, why does it cache when I don’t want? You seem to be running a stale version. Or perhaps you want to snoop around a running container a…

  • Brrr… bikes and batteries. We need more torque!

    Brrr… bikes and batteries. We need more torque!

    As the temperature drops so does the battery output in an e-bike. And yesterday am we had some reasonable heavy snow on the ground (lightly frozen and somewhat driven over, so really tough to go through). I got stuck a few times. In a car, when you are stuck, your tires spin (and if you…

  • I thought the cloud was modern? The sad tale of the 32-bit world

    IPv6. its a thing. Look it up. 128-bit IP’s, enough that all your hopes and dreams can get their own IP. Cloud? IPv4. 32-bit. Enough that we NAT multiple times for no really good reason. But that is not the topic of today’s learning/rant. Its about ‘stat’ and 64-bit-inodes. You see boys and girls, today…

  • When the bulb costs more than the lamp…

    When the bulb costs more than the lamp…

    Every one of us at some time in our life bought one of these ‘torchiere’ lamps. Stands on the floor, about the same height as a person. They cost about $20 when I bought mine. They came with a 300W halogen bulb in a tube-style packaged called a ‘T3’ (tubular 3). Most (all?) are 118mm…

  • Smart locks on an AirBnB in oakland? Are you nuts?

    Smart locks on an AirBnB in oakland? Are you nuts?

    So I’m coming up on a conference in San Francisco. And the hotels are crazy expensive. Like more than my first car, per night expensive. I shopped around, and flophouses that have shared bathrooms and are featured in documentaries on Netflix about heroin injection are $300/night. Normally I stay at the airport and take the…