https://pype.dev/tech/ My thoughts and streams of consciousness organized into barely coherent posts about things Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000 markata-go https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://pype.dev/harbor-faulted-disk-replacement/ The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:30:00 +0000 https://pype.dev/harbor-faulted-disk-replacement/ homelab zfs tech backup https://pype.dev/it-will-be-hard-to-do-more/ 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... Fri, 22 May 2026 06:23:20 +0000 https://pype.dev/it-will-be-hard-to-do-more/ work tech https://pype.dev/panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop/ I thought I had backups handled... can you imagine how the rest of this post is going to go with that intro? Wed, 13 May 2026 08:24:00 +0000 https://pype.dev/panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop/ backup tech https://pype.dev/the-relief-of-earning/ Work has been crazy for months, and I haven't written too much about it, a few notes here and there but nothing substantial. The craziness is sourced in a... Fri, 08 May 2026 05:43:39 +0000 https://pype.dev/the-relief-of-earning/ work tech https://pype.dev/fixing-firefox-launcher-on-kubuntu-22/ Problem: Firefox installed but missing from KDE/Plasma app menu - Root cause: No .desktop launcher file — Firefox only worked from terminal - Solution:... Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:32:50 +0000 https://pype.dev/fixing-firefox-launcher-on-kubuntu-22/ agents tech https://pype.dev/data-loading-is-a-huge-deal/ I've been thinking about the work I am doing and have to do in my role at Cat, in Cat Autonomy, building Forge (see forge-ahead). I feel like I have little... Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:40:14 +0000 https://pype.dev/data-loading-is-a-huge-deal/ forge rada kedro tech https://pype.dev/agents-can-miss-obvious-things-too/ I am working with MiniMax M.2 to vibe up some webapp ideas for Nexus and I just spent many minutes not having the app render correctly because the agent... Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:51 +0000 https://pype.dev/agents-can-miss-obvious-things-too/ agents til tech https://pype.dev/the-irony-of-10x/ Agentic coding has been an exciting change to me over the last couple of months specifically. I've been using AI tools for a few years now but something... Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:00:50 +0000 https://pype.dev/the-irony-of-10x/ ai tech agents personal https://pype.dev/remote-terraform-state-requires-working-traefik-duh/ I'm working on some spring cleaning in my homelab and backed myself into a hilarious corner yesterday. I use Open Tofu for any of my Terraform needs now, and... Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:12:25 +0000 https://pype.dev/remote-terraform-state-requires-working-traefik-duh/ traefik tech https://pype.dev/to-live-in-a-world-without-ai/ I'm finding lately that I wish we could go back to pre-ChatGPT... A world without a code-gen easy button, where "easy" was LSP autocomplete, where tools were... Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:50:38 +0000 https://pype.dev/to-live-in-a-world-without-ai/ ai tech https://pype.dev/paynepride-dot-com-outage-on-vacation/ The day after I leave for vacation I start getting SSL errors on every homelab service I host for myself and others. The culprit was my Cloudflare API token... Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:21:31 +0000 https://pype.dev/paynepride-dot-com-outage-on-vacation/ ofc tech https://pype.dev/my-thoughts-on-beads/ Steve Yegge is a pretty well-known individual in the tech field, having been around for a long time at some of the larger companies. He's making quite a... Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:00:47 +0000 https://pype.dev/my-thoughts-on-beads/ ai tech https://pype.dev/forge-ahead/ Yesterday's reflection-contentment-and-work has a second-part this morning. As I was wrapping up a project I didn't realize the closed-off-ness of leaving...... Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:14:15 +0000 https://pype.dev/forge-ahead/ work tech https://pype.dev/kubernetes-external-secrets-operator/ I wanted to put a short demo together of using External Secrets Operator (ESO) to expose secrets from a vault (like Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager,... Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:48:34 +0000 https://pype.dev/kubernetes-external-secrets-operator/ devops tech https://pype.dev/cat-autonomy-2-0/ I wrote about my new role new-job-caterpillar-autonomy a bit a couple weeks ago during an insanely busy time - having just started the role and wrapping up... Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:07:12 +0000 https://pype.dev/cat-autonomy-2-0/ work tech https://pype.dev/learning-how-to-agent/ I've been using AI tools for codegen for a few years now, but not super heavily. I either use the in-line copilot stuff, which is like LSP on seteroids, or I... Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:50:33 +0000 https://pype.dev/learning-how-to-agent/ genai tech https://pype.dev/new-job-caterpillar-autonomy/ In im-back-from-the-dead I mentioned my new role that started this year - it's a return to Caterpillar Autonomy. I built some data pipelines and junior-grade... Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:24:54 +0000 https://pype.dev/new-job-caterpillar-autonomy/ work tech https://pype.dev/increase-inotify-limit-in-your-ci-workers/ Today I tripped over a CI failure that I had to think about for a while. Tue, 30 Dec 2025 06:11:49 +0000 https://pype.dev/increase-inotify-limit-in-your-ci-workers/ forgejo tech https://pype.dev/prettier-docker-ps-command/ The command is very useful, but I hate reading the output. Turns out, you can make it prettier: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:33:05 +0000 https://pype.dev/prettier-docker-ps-command/ docker til tech https://pype.dev/setup-a-cloudflare-tunnel-with-terraform/ I am cooking up some stuff at home and want to put it on the interwebs, but I don't want it on the same infra as my homelab. Now... I only have a server or... Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:06:59 +0000 https://pype.dev/setup-a-cloudflare-tunnel-with-terraform/ tofu terraform tech