Blog
Welcome to my blog. Here, I write about technology, community events in Whitehorse, and my experiences working in technology.
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OS Review: Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' – A Rust-y New World?
So, the Questing Quokka (Ubuntu 25.10) has been hopping around on my drive for a few weeks now. Since the dust has settled on the October release, I figured it was time to talk about whether this short-term release is worth your time or if you should stick to the...
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NGINX Reverse Proxy: The Unsung Hero of Your Stack
If you’ve spun up a web server in the last decade, you’ve probably copy-pasted an NGINX config file. It’s the bread and butter of the internet. Today, I’m taking a look at the NGINX Reverse Proxy.
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Azure Pipelines Review: The Enterprise Workhorse
Let’s be honest for a moment. When you think of “cool” CI/CD tools in 2025, your mind probably jumps to GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or maybe some niche tool that only runs on Arch Linux. Azure Pipelines? It feels a bit like the dad of the bunch. It wears a...
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ArgoCD Review: The GitOps Shepherd Your Cluster Needs
If you’ve been manually kubectl apply-ing your manifests like a caveman, or trusting a fragile Jenkins pipeline to push changes to your cluster, we need to talk.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Templating: Helm
If you’ve spent more than a week with Kubernetes, you’ve probably faced “YAML-fatigue.” You start by copy-pasting a deployment.yaml and a service.yaml. Soon, you need a configmap.yaml, a secret.yaml, and an ingress.yaml. Before you know it, you’re managing 12 different YAML files for a single application, and deploying to staging...
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A Casual Look at Prometheus
If you’re in the Kubernetes or cloud-native world, you can’t throw a stone without hitting someone who is using Prometheus for monitoring. It’s the de facto standard, the default, the “just install it already” tool that everyone seems to rely on.
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So You Need TLS on Kubernetes? A Casual Review of cert-manager
If you’ve ever run anything on Kubernetes, you know that “just running the app” is only half the battle. The other half is networking, and a huge part of that is securing your services with TLS (you know, the ‘S’ in HTTPS). Manually creating and renewing SSL certificates is a...
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Update Post: My Plan to Build a Real-Life Moving Painting
My partner is a huge Harry Potter fan. So, naturally, I’ve been thinking of ways to bring a little bit of that Hogwarts magic into our home. My latest crazy idea? To build one of the iconic moving paintings from the movies.
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Kube Vip: Easy HA and Load Balancing for Your K8s Cluster
Hey everyone! If you’re running Kubernetes, especially on-prem, bare-metal, or at the edge, you know that getting traffic into your cluster can be a pain. Setting up high availability (HA) for your control plane or getting a LoadBalancer service to work without a fancy cloud provider’s magic is tricky.
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Project Hogwarts: My Plan to Build a Real-Life Moving Painting
My partner is a huge Harry Potter fan. So, naturally, I’ve been thinking of ways to bring a little bit of that Hogwarts magic into our home. My latest crazy idea? To build one of the iconic moving paintings from the movies.
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My Plan to Blog Every Week Like It's the 2000s
You know how it is. You have a ton of cool ideas, projects you’re working on, and things you want to share. But then life happens. I’ve been wanting to write more on here, but I always get stuck trying to make every post “perfect,” which usually means nothing ever...
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Creating Alser.ca
Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at my new website, Alser.ca! Building it with Jekyll was a fun challenge, and I wanted to share the story of how this project came to life. We’ll dive into the helpful tools I used, some of the key lessons I picked up along the...
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