Tooling

A small, practical use of Nix that doesn't require buying into the ecosystem.

The core trick that cut our PR CI time from 22 minutes to 4 on average.

I kept installing fzf and forgetting about it. Here is the config that put it in my muscle memory.

Three years in, I can't imagine switching branches the old way.

A six-month experience report. The value proposition is real; the downsides are too.

How we keep our task runner tidy when every service wants its own rituals.

Structured logging is not the hard part. The hard part is everything around it.

One line of workflow YAML stops CI from wasting minutes on outdated commits.

A service worked on one image and not another. The difference was invisible until we traced syscalls.

A core dump from production is a gift. Here is how I unwrap it.

Dev containers solve real problems but have their own operational tail.

A stale cache partition was producing 'passing' builds for a bug that was 100% broken at runtime.

After a year on Flux and a quarter on Argo, here is a practical comparison from a four-person platform team

A collection of the mistakes I made designing custom resource definitions, and the patterns that emerged after a few painful migrations

Small kubectl plugins I wrote over the past year that punch above their weight in daily workflows