24 yaml files for config. The single src folder

Yeh, KDE plasma

I use EndeavourOS (which is arch).

Most of my programming is web stuff. So it builds to containers and using VS Codes dev containers takes care of all issues relating to arch’s rolling release (IE needing a specific version of a language).
Ie, I work in containers and I build to container and I run containers for all my code (except ESP32 platformio. Unfortunately I haven’t migrated that away from windows. So I dual boot)

If I was doing GUI desktop apps, I imagine I would need something other than dev containers.
But that’s not what I do. Considering all I do is docker, k8s, linux admin, web frontend/backend that is platform agnostic (but ultimately runs on Linux)… I’m not tied to any OS.
Windows is annoying, I am not a fan of osx nor Apple, I use Linux everyday… So my OS might as well be Linux.
And Arch & EndeavourOS are nice and just work.
For a VPS/server, I use Debian (or Talos OS for k8s). But that’s all headless.

I’m lucky in that I freelance and the companies I work for are good companies.
I’ve never had to cancel anything because of EndeavourOS, it’s never broken on me (I’ve only had windows break the EFI partition, which it can do to any distro - until you disable fast boot and stuff), it’s never gotten in my way (or if it has, it’s lead to a better solution - like VS Code dev containers). It’s been really really enjoyable.

I’m sure that I could use any distro in my position, tbh.
So, probably not helpful overall.

Ayyy, remember how Canada capitulated on the digital service tax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62553ywn77o
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/06/canada-rescinds-digital-services-tax-to-advance-broader-trade-negotiations-with-the-united-states.html

Then trump threatens new tarrifs?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg819n954mo

(I’m struggling to find new sources,. cause everything is about dropping the DST to allow further trade talks. Not the timeline of DST dropping and the further US tariffs. Maybe these are coincidental, maybe there was always gonna be more Canadian tariffs. Either way, it doesn’t matter. Canada got more blanket tariffs regardless of what they did. Speaks volumes to everyone else dealing with trump)

Trump is destabilising international trade. This doesn’t benefit the US. At all.

To Our 12 Million Fellow Subnauts,

— Inevitable Leadership Change Driven by Project Abandonment–Despite Holding 90% of Earnout for Themselves

First and foremost, we sincerely thank you for your continued support, passion, and unwavering dedication to Subnautica. We wish to provide clarity on the recent leadership changes at Unknown Worlds, a creative studio under KRAFTON.

Background of Leadership Change

KRAFTON deeply values Subnautica’s unique creativity and immersive world-building. To provide fans with even better gaming experiences, we acquired Unknown Worlds, fully committed to supporting Subnautica’s future success. We collaborated closely with the studio’s leadership, who were central to the creation of the original Subnautica, to foster the optimal environment for a successful Subnautica 2.

Specifically, in addition to the initial $500 million purchase price, we allocated approximately 90% of the up to $250 million earn-out compensation to the three former executives, with the expectation that they would demonstrate leadership and active involvement in the development of Subnautica 2.

However, regrettably, the former leadership abandoned the responsibilities entrusted to them. Subnautica 2 was originally planned for an Early Access launch in early 2024, but the timeline has since been significantly delayed. KRAFTON made multiple requests to Charlie and Max to resume their roles as Game Director and Technical Director, respectively, but both declined to do so. In particular, following the failure of Moonbreaker, KRAFTON asked Charlie to devote himself to the development of Subnautica 2. However, instead of participating in the game development, he chose to focus on a personal film project.

KRAFTON believes that the absence of core leadership has resulted in repeated confusion in direction and significant delays in the overall project schedule. The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume. We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.

KRAFTON’s Full Support for the Dedicated Development Team

To uphold our commitment to provide you with the best possible gaming experience, we made the difficult yet necessary decision to change the executive leadership. Subnautica 2 has been and continues to be actively developed by a dedicated core team who share genuine passion, accountability, and commitment to the game. We deeply respect their expertise and creativity and will continue to provide full and unwavering support, enabling them to focus solely on delivering the exceptional game you deserve.

KRAFTON’s Commitment to its Promises in Rewarding Employees

Additionally, KRAFTON has committed to fair and equitable compensation for all remaining Unknown Worlds employees who have continuously and tirelessly contributed to Subnautica 2’s development. We believe that the dedication and effort of this team are at the very heart of Subnautica’s ongoing evolution, and we reaffirm our commitment to provide the rewards they were promised.

Fans will always remain at the center of every decision we make at KRAFTON. Moving forward, we promise transparent communication and continued efforts to sustainably develop and expand the beloved Subnautica universe.

Honoring your trust and expectations is a core tenet at KRAFTON. We are committed to repaying your patience with an even more refined and exceptional gaming experience.

Sourced from a popup on their homepage krafton.com

It’s going to be an interesting lawsuit.
I didn’t know the 250m bonus was 90% for execs.
But I still don’t trust krafton

One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it

Interesting, I might check them out.
I liked garden because it was “for kubernetes”. It was a horse and it had its course.
I had the wrong assumption that all those CD tools were specifically tailored to run as workers in a deployment pipeline.

I’m willing to re-evaluate my deployment stack, tbh.
I’ll definitely dig more into flux and ansible.
Thanks!

Oh, operators are absolutely the way for “released” things.

But on bigger projects with lots of different pods etc, it’s a lot of work to make all the CRD definitions, hook all the events, and write all the code to deploy the pods etc.
Similar to helm charts, I don’t see the point for personal projects. I’m not sharing it with anyone, I don’t need helm/operator abstraction for it.
And something like cdk8s will generate the yaml for you to inspect. So you can easily validate that you are “doing the right thing” before slinging it into k8s.

Everyone talks about helm charts.
I tried them and hate writing them.
I found garden.io, and it makes a really nice way to consume repos (of helm charts, manifests etc) and apply them in a sensible way to a k8s cluster.
Only thing is, it seems to be very tailored to a team of developers. I kinda muddled through with it, and it made everything so much easier.
Although I massively appreciate that helm charts are used for most projects, they make sense for something you are going to share.
But if it’s a solo project or consuming other people’s projects, I don’t think it really solves a problem.

Which is why I used garden.io. Designed for deploying kubernetes manifests, I found it had just enough tooling to make things easier.
Though, if you are used to ansible, it might make more sense to use ansible.
Pretty sure ansible will be able to do it all in a way you are familiar with.

As for writing the manifests themselves, I find it rare I need to (unless it’s something I’ve made myself). Most software has a k8s helm chart. So I just reference that in a garden file, set any variables I need to, and all good.
If there aren’t helm charts or kustomize files, then it’s adapting a docker compose file into manifests. Which is manual.
Occasionally I have to write some CRDs, config maps or secrets (CMs and secrets are easily made in garden).

I also prefer to install operators, instead of the raw service. For example, I use Cloudnative Postgres to set up postgres databases.
I create a CRD that defines the database, and CNPG automatically provisions all the storage, pods, services, config maps and secrets.

The way I use kubernetes for the projects I do is:
Apply all the infrastructure stuff (gateways, metallb, storage provisioners etc) from helm files (or similar).
Then apply all my pods, services, certificates etc from hand written manifests.
Using garden, I can make sure things are deployed in the correct order: operators are installed before trying to apply a CRD, secrets/cms created before being referenced etc.
If I ever have to wipe and reinstall a cluster, it takes me 30 minutes or so from a clean TalosOS install to the project up and running, with just 3 or 4 commands.

Any on-the-fly changes I make, I ensure I back port to the project configs so when I wipe, reset, reinstall I still get what I expect.

However, I have recently found https://cdk8s.io/ and I’m meaning to investigate that for creating the manifests themselves.
Write code using a typed language, and have cdk8s create the raw yaml manifests. Seems like a dream!
I hate writing yaml. Auto complete is useless (the editor has no idea what format the yaml doc should take), auto formatting is useless (mostly because yaml is whitespace sensitive, and the editor has no idea what things are a child or a new parent). It just feels ugly and clunky.

So uplink is 500/500.
LAN speed tests at 1000/1000.
WAN is 100/400.
VPN is 8/8.

I’m guessing the VPN is part of your homelab? Or do you mean a generic commercial VPN (like pia or proton)?

How does the domain resolve on the LAN? Is it split horizon (so local ip on the lan, public IP on public DNS)?
Is the homelab on a separate subnet/vlan from the computer you ran the speed test from? Or the same subnet?

No.
I tried a smart watch for a week or so, and hated wearing it.
Hadn’t worn a watch in 20 years, and it felt very strange

I’m always nervous about fintech companies. Maybe it’s time to get over that and give curve pay a spin.
The cashback seems nice, considering a lot of shops I use are on there.

Not if you use wildcard dns records.

Yup, true.

But contactless via a phone can have no limit.
Adding a debit card to phone case means the upper limit is £100. Which is actually fine, and is the limit I have normally set for phone contactless. But I can instantly remove that limit via my banking app.

And the phone needs to be unlocked to make a payment.
Do if I lose my phone anyone can charge £100 to the debit card.

Servers: one. No need to make the log a distributed system, CT itself is a distributed system.

The uptime target is 99%3 over three months, which allows for nearly 22h of downtime. That’s more than three motherboard failures per month.

CPU and memory: whatever, as long as it’s ECC memory. Four cores and 2 GB will do.

Bandwidth: 2 – 3 Gbps outbound.
Storage:
3 – 5 TB of usable redundant filesystem space on SSD or.
3 – 5 TB of S3-compatible object storage, and 200 GB of cache on SSD.
People: at least two. The Google policy requires two contacts, and generally who wants to carry a pager alone.

Seems beyond you typical homelab self hoster, except for the countries that have 5gbps symmetric home broadband.
If anyone can sneak 2-3gbps outbound pass their employer, I imagine the rest is trivial.
Altho… “At least 2 [people]” isn’t the typical self hosting

Edit:
Tried to fix the copy/paste.

Also will add:

https://crt.sh/
Has a list of all certificates issued.
If you are using LE for every subdomain of your homelab (including internal), maybe think about a wildcard cert?
One of those “obscurity isn’t security”, but why advertise your endpoints? Also increases privacy (IE not advertising porn(dot)example(dot)com)

This… Except for contactless payment.
I used graphene for a month. It was lovely. Even things like banking apps worked.
I don’t care about absolute privacy, but I do care about controlling my privacy. Grapheme gave me that.

I had only 1 issue.
Contactless payment.
It’s extremely convenient to me, from public transport to groceries. I just bop my phone.

The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I’m sure they wave away the laws because of “financial security” or some other bullshit.
As if bank card NFC/contactless doesn’t suffer exactly the same issues.
I looked into some “graphene contactless payment” type systems or workarounds, and I couldn’t find anything that would fill the gap.

If I was responsible for the safety and wellbeing of a flying tube with 200 people in it, I would absolutely be pissed about not being able to get a proper rest.

Eventually, yes

I don’t use it anymore though because I found the suggestions to be annoying and distracting most of the time and got tired of hitting escape

Same. It took longer for me to parse and validate the suggestion as it did for me to just type what I wanted.

I do like the helper for more complex refractors.
Where you have a bunch of similar, but not exactly the same, changes to make.
Where a search & replace refactor isn’t enough.
It manages to figure out what you are doing, highlights the next instance of it and suggests the replacement.
I don’t think I’ve seen it make a mistake doing that, and it is a useful speedup.
I guess the LLM already has all the context: the needle, the haystack and the term.

Yeh, my example was pretty contrived and very surface level.
It grouped things that seemed related at a surface level but weren’t actually related at all. Which makes it a bad example.
And realistically, you would use a timer class that raised events, and passed in an interval class that could be constructed from any appropriate units.

It was more to highlight that types and classes are a fairly easy way to improve the context around variable.
It can also use type checker to show incorrect conversions between minutes and seconds, Polar and Cartesian coords, RGB and HSV, or miles and kilometers. Any number of scenarios where unit conversions aren’t a syntax error.