Devcontainers in 2025: A Personal Take
Using devcontainers for fun and profit(?)…
Cross-cluster Argo Rollouts with ArgoCD
Over a sufficiently long time span, the number of Kubernetes clusters approach (and exceeds!) n where n = the number of things an engineers can reasonably grok. ArgoCD helps reduce cognitive load thro…
Diffs & Manifests in Github PRs with ArgoCD
ArgoCD is a lot of things: a way to manage Kubernetes manifests with a GitOps philosophy, an observability portal, a tool in the larger Argo* ecosystem. But for our developers? The features they love…
Vastly Overengineering a Blog with k3os and GitOps
So it's that time of year again: the year's winding to an end, I've got some PTO days to burn, and my home lab looks something like this: So in the best spirit of end-of-year reorganizati…
Building a Mobile Automation Lab (Part 2) — Paving the Yellow Brick Road
Welcome back to our guide to building a mobile automation lab (on the relatively cheap)! In this post, we’ll set up Appium on the new Mac Mini’s. If you haven’t gotten a chance, check out Part I of th…
Useful Python Packages (for Test Automation)
My raison d’être in the workplace is ensuring the continuity of our systems and functionality, come what may: crazy requirements, infrastructure failures, and general oddness. If I do my job right, ev…
Building a Mobile Automation Lab (Part 1) — We’re not in Kansas Anymore
There’s lots of reasons to automate end-to-end mobile testing. You’ll find many companies selling cloud solutions. So why did we decide to build a device lab in this day and age? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ * Mobile…