Blog
Thoughts on DevOps, fishing, outdoor adventures, and tech projects.
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Why Is It Harder to Hit the Sun Than Leave the Solar System?
April 11, 2026Built an interactive orbital sim to answer this, and the answer is weirder than I expected.
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How I Pick Models for My Specialized AI Agents
April 7, 2026I built specialized agents for specific tasks - then figured out which models actually work for each one. Here's the framework I use.
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Redesigning My GitHub Profile README with Bash, YAML, and Way Too Many APIs
March 8, 2026I rebuilt my GitHub profile README from scratch with auto-generated badges, live BlueSky posts, and a Dracula color scheme, all from a single shell script.
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First Time Ice Fishing on Buckeye Lake with My Boys
February 15, 2026I took my two boys ice fishing for the first time on Buckeye Lake in Ohio. We didn't catch a thing — but we learned a lot and we're already planning the next trip.
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FishID: A pocket guide for Ohio anglers
February 6, 2026I built a simple app to help me learn to identify Ohio fish like second nature.
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Building My Homelab Kubernetes Cluster
February 4, 2026How I moved all my self-hosted services to a homelab K8s cluster running on bare metal.
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OpenTofu, Spacelift, and Target Shooting
January 15, 2026Combining two of my favorite things — infrastructure as code and a day at the range.
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IaC/Spacelift Best Practices
September 5, 2024Best practices for organizing IaC repositories, structuring Spacelift Spaces, modularizing Terraform code, and fostering team collaboration.
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Autoscaling Spacelift Workers in Kubernetes
August 28, 2024How to setup autoscaling Spacelift workers in Kubernetes using the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler and the Spacelift Worker API.
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Collecting OpenMetrics in Kubernetes and Shipping to Datadog
August 10, 2020Collecting custom OpenMetrics in Kubernetes with Prometheus exporter and shipping them to Datadog for alerting.