I’m a site reliability / platform engineer in Atlanta. I do GCP, Terraform, and the slow work of making regulated environments harder to break: identity, change management, the kind of infrastructure that’s only interesting when it’s missing.
Outside of work I keep a K3s cluster, a Proxmox box, random small elecronics projects, and a pigeon loft with an increasing amount of sensors. Most of what’s posted here is the long way around to something that came up in one of those places.
I bought a new Steam controller and wanted to try it. I used it with Ship of Harkinian on Linux, launched it via Steam, and noticed gyro wasn’t detected. Below is how I got native gyro working for SoH. Like any program, launching through Steam grants you the full …
During some disaster recovery work, I deployed a Proxmox cluster to rapidly restore VMs from Veeam but ran into a restore target issue. Veeam’s Proxmox plugin can back up VMs running on local-zfs just fine. Restoring them is the problem: Veeam won’t use a ZFS pool as …
Context I ran into an unusual OSLogin failure while migrating a long-running server into a new GCP project. The request was to migrate from one old GCP project into multiple new ones, one per environment. This included several VMs with dev and prod versions.
On July 3rd, 2024, I ended up dealing with one of the messier Kubernetes situations I’ve encountered: upgrading an EKS cluster that had effectively been left behind for years. The push to upgrade wasn’t optional as the cluster version was approaching the end of extended support …
Door alarms have gotten more sophisticated over the years, but many newer systems are proprietary or comparatively expensive, especially when using Zigbee or similar ecosystems. The older 433 MHz sensors are cheap, simple, and widely available. Most of them use fixed-code …