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🤘 From metal to tech: How Garza’s Podcast, featuring Gene Hoglan describing the recording process of ‘Individual Thought Patterns’, inspired some reflecting on the state of Agile, Tech, AI and sovereignty. #Metal #Tech #GarzaPodcast www.tibobeijen.nl/2026/05/15/i...

☯️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗭𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 Inspired by ‘The Zen of Python’, I have created ‘The Zen of DevOps’: A small set of principles that value clarity, restraint, maintainability and reliability. For fun. Become Zen... www.zenofdevops.org #DevOps #SRE #PlatformEngineering #Guidelines

Updated breach: A further 833k unique email addresses from Dutch telco Odido have been released, bringing the total to 1.5M. The latest dump also includes passport, driver’s licence and European national ID numbers. More: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Odido

I suppose this is today's variant of being Rickrolled.

After 15 years of no certification, I recently went from zero to ‘quite a lot’. How do I now think about certification, and how do I look back at the journey? Well… with nuance. (Bonus: Contains a nod to Ingress. The game, not the networking thing) www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/12/17/r...

Just had the urge to pinch zoom an image in a newspaper. Not sure how it's going... 🤔

Where to start: Der Weg Einer Freiheit it is! Queued: Lorna Shore & Between the Buried and Me. Can't remember a release friday like this. And then next week Igorr. So much to listen, what a luxury! #music #metal

Driving my son (6yr) to swimming: Lorna Shore was where I left off yesterday. Blastbeats. Crazy speeds. Extreme vocals. Son hums along the symphonic backdrop, and wants it on his Spotify playlist. 😄 There's hope for humanity. #proud

🎭 Going Backstage... Part high-level. Part config and react details I'll almost certainly forget. Nevertheless it has been interesting diving into Spotify's backstage! #PlatformEngineering #IDP #Spotify #Backstage www.credly.com/badges/af27b...

Bummer. Guess I need another bookmarker for articles worth reading. Any suggestions? #getpocket #pocket

🏃 Sometimes during a run, the mind wanders… 🥁 This was fun to write! Maybe I should start reviewing music. #C4 #Architecture #Metal #Epica #Cytotoxin www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/04/15/w...

Maybe changing tariffs every hour is an option? Every day is just not enough chaos.

▶▶ I wrote a short recap of #FastFlowConf, which I visited past week. This nicely counterbalances my #KubeCon FOMO: Having a quite different focus and having been a much smaller sized, almost cozy, event. 👌 #TeamTopologies www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/04/04/f...

WTF #WhatsApp #meta

🐇 One of those rabbit-holes I kept evading: Improving my local k3d setup. Trusted certificates, easier FQDNs. And automating all of it using Taskfile. #kubernetes #k3d #cert-manager #coredns www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/03/24/e...

Who would have thought: www.itpro.com/technology/a...

This was such a great read! Been spinning Pantera a lot since. Dimebag was unique... www.guitarworld.com/lessons/arti...

✏️ Pursuing any, or all, of the Kubestronaut exams? I wrote down some tips that worked for me. Hopefully it helps and encourages anyone! #CNCF #Kubestronaut #CKS #CKA #CKAD #Certification www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/02/12/s...

👨‍🚀 5/5 I joined the ranks of Kubestronauts! …by completing the KCNA and KCSA exams. CKS really was the centerpiece of this series. www.credly.com/badges/55ff7...

Might be the best place to start when considering writing a Kubernetes controller. The CRD/API design alone is worth it, because that's there to last...👌

✍ How to use the automation tools one already has, to make IaC changes a breeze. This article illustrates how relatively simple improvements can deliver a lot of value. www.tibobeijen.nl/2025/01/10/i... Contains sprinkles of #platformengineering and #teamtopologies

Ok, who else inspects HTML pages to create anchor links to pages that don't provide them?

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

2025 Resolution: Keep using AI primarily to learn, instead of to avoid learning. Have a good one everybody!

Lego is great at so many levels: The creativity, the engineering, the role playing. Also: When they step on it, it teaches your kids to clean up their toys.

Something completely underappreciated in how Google Chrome revolutionized the web and security and software in general — was the silent background auto-update + and non-admin user-level installs. It set a bar that changed everything on ability to make progress & address threats. Broke IT paradigms.

Listening this these days on my runs and it's great!

💡TIL: OSX filesystem by default is NOT case-sensitive. That explains some funky Git quirks of the past, and the fact that Go's os.ReadFile unexpectedly found files when provided all-uppercase filenames... Info: support.apple.com/lv-lv/guide/....

Planned to do something useful, but... ended up figuring out how to show hidden files in dialogs (not same as finder) by default on OSX. For those interested: 'defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowAllFiles -bool true' And yes, you can codify that using ansible: docs.ansible.com/ansible/late...

Disappointing how the setup screens of Windows 11 PRO (software that is paid and aimed at businesses) asks if you would like your advertisments personalised or not. Amazing how Microsoft pulls this off, and illustrative for the data-hunger of big tech.

Finally updated my handle.

⎈ Yay, I am now officially certified to Kubernutcase in a secure manner: CKS acquired! A lot harder than CKA, partly due to the recently added new topics of which little training material exists yet. www.credly.com/badges/134ac...

We value your privacy... O, you sure know how to value my privacy. 1581 might be a record!

Lol. No 'share where to?' Dumping straight to Twitter. 😄 Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #667,805!

✍ How a LEGO restroom sign beats every enterprise software out there 20% rant about crap software. 80% encouragement to build great experiences. Whether designing products, building applications or implementing automation. #ux #usability #software #design #lego www.tibobeijen.nl/2024/05/24/h...

Blogged: Terraform and Ansible were already Terrible (Not!) in 2016 "Provison servers, configure servers. IBM might be on to something..." #Terraform #Ansible #HashiCorp #IBM #DevOps www.tibobeijen.nl/2024/04/30/t...

Blogged: 12 Factor: 13 years later How can we make applications easy to operate? The 12 factor methodology is about 13 years old. How did it age in the cloud-native era? Do we need a 13th factor? www.tibobeijen.nl/2024/04/24/1... #CloudNative #DevOps

Looking back at 2023, does Kubernetes still have its place? Can it deliver value? It can, depending on what we focus on and avoid. Or so I think. Relatable or ramblings of a Kubernutcase? #Kubernetes t.co/mfxrfNVa8n