Hi, I'm Jared!

Recently I decided that I hate myself, or in other words: decided to put Gentoo on my M1 Mac(s). Yes, that's right, not only one but two M1 macs. Both my personal and my work machine. The experience was... honeslty pretty easy! I wasn't the first person to do

How I went from a software engineer to site reliability engineer (SRE) back to software engineer and why

Recently I decided that I hate myself, or in other words: decided to put Gentoo on my M1 Mac(s). Yes, that's right, not only one but two M1 macs. Both my personal and my work machine. The experience was... honeslty pretty easy! I wasn't the first person to do

How I got Microk8s working with Tailscale (plus calico!) as my CNI.

Continuing my adventures with Balena [https://www.balena.io/], an amazing IoT orchestration platform, I recently found myself wanting to test the stack of an IoT project locally. Tilt [https://tilt.dev/] is a great platform for this, while it's generally oriented towards Kubernetes it also provides support for docker-compose.

How I created a fully automated release engineering + CD pipeline with Balena and Github.

Running a Minecraft server is something I've found myself doing a ridiculous amount of times. Sometimes I'm able to get a few people to hop on and play for a bit, but usually, it doesn't last very long. Every time I've gone through one of these "phases" of creating a

How I went from a software engineer to site reliability engineer (SRE) back to software engineer and why

How I made a tool that enabled developing with Kubernetes to be as simple as "docker-compose" was.