260 posts

TIL: Argo CD for GitOps and Lens Kubernetes IDE

Today I learned about Argo CD for declarative GitOps continuous delivery and explored Lens as a comprehensive Kubernetes IDE for cluster management.

March 26, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Modern Rust CLI Tools - System Monitoring, HTTP Requests, and DNS

Today I discovered five excellent Rust-based CLI tools: bottom, dust, procs for system monitoring, xh for HTTP requests, and nip.io for wildcard DNS resolution.

March 25, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: tz - A Time Zone Helper Tool

Today I discovered tz, a simple and useful command-line tool for managing and converting between different time zones.

March 23, 2021 · 1 min

TIL: Distributed Systems Education, Fallacies, and Self-Hosted Internet Archiving

Today I learned about CSE138 distributed systems lectures, the classic fallacies of distributed computing, and an interesting project for self-hosting internet archives.

March 22, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Real-Time Voice Cloning Technology

Today I discovered an impressive project that can clone voices in just 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time using deep learning.

March 21, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: ChartMuseum for Helm, AMD's Corporate Journey, and Kubernetes Pod Scaling

Today I learned about ChartMuseum for Helm chart repositories, AMD's fascinating rise, fall, and revival story, and why Kubernetes removes the newest pods when scaling down.

March 19, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Docker and Kubernetes Tools - Whaler, Descheduler, and Dive

Today I discovered three powerful tools for container management: Whaler for reverse-engineering Dockerfiles, Kubernetes Descheduler for pod optimization, and Dive for Docker image analysis.

March 18, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Post-Mortem Collection, Terminal Plotting, and Technical Twitter

Today I discovered a comprehensive collection of engineering post-mortems, a Python library for terminal-based plotting, and an interesting technical Twitter account.

March 17, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Dark Mode Toggle Web Component by Google Chrome Labs

Today I learned about a custom web component from Google Chrome Labs that makes it easy to add dark mode functionality to websites.

March 15, 2021 · 2 min

TIL: Python eval(), exec(), and compile() Functions

Today I learned about the differences between Python's eval(), exec(), and compile() functions and their appropriate use cases for dynamic code execution.

March 14, 2021 · 3 min