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Today I learned an important lesson that you should periodically check on your kubeconfigs expiration date. It’s easy to do. You can ask for the client-certificate-data from your kubeconfig, decode it, and use openssl to get the expiration date. kubectl config view --raw -o jsonpath='{.users[0].user.client-certificate-data}' \ | base64 -d 2>/dev/null \ | openssl x509 -noout -dates Note This will only work for the first user, if you have more than one user or context defined in your kubeconfig you will need to adjust.

- This looks like a really good low cost option for some workholding. There is never a shortage of workholding in the shop and everything has a place. Having something low cost that you can have a bunch of makes a lot of sense. Maybe you still need a super scucum unit for really clamping the shit out of something, but this easily covers most use cases in a garage workshop. I want to build it. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- Moore’s Law is Dead pitches a pretty ingenious sku for the new gabecube aka steam machine. I fully support repairability and ewaste reduction. most of these components have not had MAJOR improvements in years, hence his channel name. There is a possibility here that Valve could ship with their unique hardware, (apu, psu, case, ports, networking) and let you bring your own ssd and ram from an old device that you might not use anymore. I love this idea. At the same time it feels like entering the star wars universe where there are no more new manufacturing and everything is cobbled together from old hardware made long ago. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli. from the docs gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host. This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host. If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt. # list accounts gh auth status # switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally) gh auth switch

Check out basecamp [1] and their project fizzy [2]. Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been. References: [1]: https://github.com/basecamp [2]: https://github.com/basecamp/fizzy

- What a heart breaking video to listen to. I’m trying to do a better job of being positive right now. I’m trying to look at the world in what I have control over (not much more than my attitude about it). AI is killing so much right now I’m trying to look at it as the good tools the engineers made it to be. Ownership is dying around every goddamn corner. Hats off to Edison, this guy gets it. We need more companies like this taking a stand for the average person who wants to make it out there. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- What a great campfire story Casey stumbled into. Whether any of this is true few will ever know, but its very reasonable that a race condition and a stalled job to apply configuration caused by someone who left the company 10 years ago caused an outage. I find it hilarious that they call this guy he answers, yup I still know the password, but how do I know you’re legit, I’m not just handing out the password. Casey did a stand up job telling this story. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

- Linus is Techbrophobic [1] like the rest of us. This is such an unexpectedly mild take from him. I expected some threat to the mother of the vibe coder, but he gave a pretty great middle of the road take. The industry sucks, it smells off, we know a lot wrong with it, it feels like theres a lot more wrong than we know. But the tools that its making are really good when used in the right ways. They are not a replacement for anything, they are assistive. They can lift someone from not knowing how to code to making a small webapp for their use. Someone who wants to write backend and give them a decent front end, someone who whats to write front end and give them a decent backend. Great take from someone with more experience than most can ever dream of having, worth a listen. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /techbrophobic/ [2]: /thoughts/

gpus are awesome [1] and I need one for Bambu Studio to be usable in a distrobox. Adding the --nvidia flag to distrobox create bind mounts the nvidia /dev/ devices and sets up the necessary environment variables. Once we are in there are a couple of packages to install to make it work. distrobox create --name bambu-studio --image archlinux:latest --nvidia distrobox enter bambu-studio sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils vulkan-icd-loader nvidia-smi glxinfo | gprep OpenGL sudo pacman -Syu --needed base-devel git git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/paru-bin.git cd paru-bin makepkg -si paru -S bambustudio-bin bambu-studio distrobox-export --app bambu-studio References: [1]: /gpus-are-awesome/

Check out garbage-day.nvim [1] by Zeioth [2]. It’s a well-crafted project with great potential. Garbage collector that stops inactive LSP clients to free RAM References: [1]: https://github.com/Zeioth/garbage-day.nvim [2]: https://github.com/Zeioth

snow-fall Web Component—zachleat.com A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat) Zach Leatherman · zachleat.com [1] This is a very fun way to add some whimsy to your site, added it to mine immediately when I saw it. This is what digital gardens are for, Fun, entertainment, and self-exxpression. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://www.zachleat.com/web/snow-fall/ [2]: /thoughts/