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Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs(opens in new tab)
The Kubernetes project relies on transparency to empower cluster administrators and security researchers. One important way we do that is by publishing CVE records into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database. As part of our ongoing effort to mature the ...
Counterfeit Prevention in Aerospace: Lessons from Spark Plug Scandal(opens in new tab)
Take a look at a scandal where an online hero spent $500 buying spark plugs online, and discovered 1/3 were fake.
A week in the life of a seven year old(opens in new tab)
Documenting the typical schedule of my daughter in 2026.
Basecamp Five(opens in new tab)
Great Docs(opens in new tab)
Your documentation has two audiences now - humans reading the rendered HTML, and AI agents trying to make sense of your library. Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit are back on Talk Python with a brand new Python documentation ...
How kube-proxy Actually Works: iptables, IPVS, and nftables Inside Out(opens in new tab)
How kube-proxy turns Kubernetes Services into kernel rules. iptables, IPVS, nftables packet paths and which to pick in 2026. Verified against k/k 1.36 source.
#481: Ways to die(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
Day 1: The Local LLM Revolution. Why Your Desk Just Became the New Datacenter(opens in new tab)
Why local LLMs are becoming practical in 2026, what changed across open weights, hardware, and inference software, and why DGX Spark makes the desk feel like a small AI lab.
FWBG - Genesis - 1.2(opens in new tab)
"Let there be..." God's Word is the agency of creation
A simple clustering algorithm for lists(opens in new tab)
I nerd-sniped myself deeply when sorting baby toys and came up with a fun pattern for doing so!
Personalized Book Recommendations with AI + GoodReads(opens in new tab)
I've been using AI to try and automate / optimize parts of my life from software engineering to exercise and diet. My latest experiment has been to use AI to improve my book recommendations by turning...
The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic”(opens in new tab)
update 2026-07-06: Anthropic added Playwright Chromium and an Artifact tool to their hosted environment. Feels more magical.
It Will Be Hard To Do More(opens in new tab)
Recently I was given a raise at work after I broached the subject with my manager. I wasn't sure what the outcome would be but I have learned two things in...
Everyone Dies... is on Kindle Unlimited(opens in new tab)
I wrote a new fiction book and it is now published. The first in a new series!
Ad Infinitum(opens in new tab)
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors(opens in new tab)
As a Rust project grows in size, it can take a non-trivial amount of efforts to keep it in a clean state that will not impede your and your co-workers'
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0(opens in new tab)
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components ...
wrkflw(opens in new tab)
A CLI and TUI to validate and run GitHub Actions locally.
Your Slop, My Sludge(opens in new tab)
Throwing shit at the wall. I'm the wall.
#480: Proud Parents(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/480
Travel notes: RubyKaigi Hakodate(opens in new tab)
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona(opens in new tab)
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs(opens in new tab)
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation(opens in new tab)
i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.
MCP on Code Mode (Changelog Interviews #681)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...
Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs(opens in new tab)
The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is not the case, it ...
Taking Down Prod with Eve(opens in new tab)
Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA ...
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang scheduling support built on a Pod-based ...
The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord(opens in new tab)
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid
cheznav(opens in new tab)
A TUI for managing chezmoi dotfiles.
Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional utilization metrics, PSI tells the story of ...
Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that helps you adapt your site to real-world network, battery, CPU, and memory conditions.
How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)(opens in new tab)
Event Sourcing Design Pattern(opens in new tab)
What if your database worked more like Git? Every change captured as an immutable event you can replay, instead of a single mutating row that quietly forgets its own history. That's event sourcing, and Chris May is back on Talk ...
NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform(opens in new tab)
#479: Talking About Types(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: httpxyz one month in Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661 Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA(opens in new tab)
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume ...
Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search(opens in new tab)
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
Big W Engineering Values - Systems Thinking(opens in new tab)
One of the most important concepts I picked up designing and building Formula SAE racecars in college was systems thinking. A team could easily have "the best engine" or "the best suspension" or "the best controls" and get beat in ...
Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA(opens in new tab)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, critical usability improvements, and new capabilities that extend ...
Lazy and Prompt(opens in new tab)
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, an engineer at Squarespace focusing on ...
Parallel Python at Anyscale with Ray(opens in new tab)
When OpenAI trained GPT-3, they didn't roll their own orchestration layer. They used Ray, an open source Python framework born out of the same Berkeley research lab lineage that gave us Apache Spark. And here's the twist: Ray was originally ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch(opens in new tab)
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, paying the ...