Steve Sklar
@sklar.rocks
Software Developer, DevOps Engineer, and Cloud Wizard @questdb.bsky.social. Currently blogging at https://sklar.rocks
If you're in the area, come check out my talk about Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments at the Orlando Code Camp on April 5th, sponsored by the Orlando .NET User Group!
March 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
If you're in the area, come check out my talk about Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployments at the Orlando Code Camp on April 5th, sponsored by the Orlando .NET User Group!
Every day I use nohup <cmd> & is a good day...
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Every day I use nohup <cmd> & is a good day...
Reposted by Steve Sklar
March 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
TIL that in go:
println --> stderr
fmt.Println --> stdout
println --> stderr
fmt.Println --> stdout
February 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
TIL that in go:
println --> stderr
fmt.Println --> stdout
println --> stderr
fmt.Println --> stdout
I'm a bit late to the game here, but I'm now obsessed with golangci-lint (github.com/golangci/gol...). It's been finding all kinds of issues in my code and the official GitHub action works like a charm
GitHub - golangci/golangci-lint: Fast linters runner for Go
Fast linters runner for Go. Contribute to golangci/golangci-lint development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'm a bit late to the game here, but I'm now obsessed with golangci-lint (github.com/golangci/gol...). It's been finding all kinds of issues in my code and the official GitHub action works like a charm
Today I've found that ChatGPT o3-mini-high (whatever that means) is actually a decent code reviewer compared to 4o. I like its tone much better than other models and it actually provides good suggestions in a concise manner that doesn't require tons of scrolling
February 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Today I've found that ChatGPT o3-mini-high (whatever that means) is actually a decent code reviewer compared to 4o. I like its tone much better than other models and it actually provides good suggestions in a concise manner that doesn't require tons of scrolling
Design by Decision Fatigue. An essay on how the decisions we make writing software shape our enjoyment of the craft.
sklar.rocks/decision-fat...
sklar.rocks/decision-fat...
Design By Decision Fatigue
Steven Sklar's technology and software development blog, covering everything from software development, Kubernetes, music technology, and more!
sklar.rocks
February 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Design by Decision Fatigue. An essay on how the decisions we make writing software shape our enjoyment of the craft.
sklar.rocks/decision-fat...
sklar.rocks/decision-fat...
I needed a way to monitor Docker containers and found cadvisor. TIL it spams thousands of metrics by default out of its prometheus endpoint and I highly recommend these 3 flags to get your metrics down to a reasonable size.
--docker_only=true
--enable_metrics=...
--disable_metrics=...
--docker_only=true
--enable_metrics=...
--disable_metrics=...
January 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I needed a way to monitor Docker containers and found cadvisor. TIL it spams thousands of metrics by default out of its prometheus endpoint and I highly recommend these 3 flags to get your metrics down to a reasonable size.
--docker_only=true
--enable_metrics=...
--disable_metrics=...
--docker_only=true
--enable_metrics=...
--disable_metrics=...
ChatGPT helping me write PromQL for alerting rules. Now that's a superpower.
January 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
ChatGPT helping me write PromQL for alerting rules. Now that's a superpower.
As I write more Pulumi code every week, I become increasingly convinced that I made the right decision choosing it over Terraform and CDK. It's just so nice to treat my IAC as actual code.
January 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
As I write more Pulumi code every week, I become increasingly convinced that I made the right decision choosing it over Terraform and CDK. It's just so nice to treat my IAC as actual code.
Reposted by Steve Sklar
Reposted by Steve Sklar
This is extra dope. Another W for the Bluesky team.
as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime
How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky
Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.
bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
This is extra dope. Another W for the Bluesky team.
I'm building a new Pulumi-based, multi-cloud provisioning framework from scratch, and a nice reminder about over-vs-under engineering just hit my inbox.. very timely!
threedots.tech/post/the-ove...
threedots.tech/post/the-ove...
The Over-Engineering Pendulum
I used to picture my dream job as this: I work for an early-stage startup that recently raised a round. The business idea is promising, there’s much to build, everything seems possible, and we have ti...
threedots.tech
December 17, 2024 at 4:43 PM
I'm building a new Pulumi-based, multi-cloud provisioning framework from scratch, and a nice reminder about over-vs-under engineering just hit my inbox.. very timely!
threedots.tech/post/the-ove...
threedots.tech/post/the-ove...
kubespec.dev 🤯 now this is solid engineering!
Kubernetes Spec v1.32: Reference Guide and Documentation
Find the documentation for all builtin resources, properties, types and even some examples!
kubespec.dev
December 13, 2024 at 1:02 AM
kubespec.dev 🤯 now this is solid engineering!
How can you possibly work with Helm without artifacthub.io? This thing saves me so much time I'd probably be willing to pay for it 🤭
December 6, 2024 at 2:23 PM
How can you possibly work with Helm without artifacthub.io? This thing saves me so much time I'd probably be willing to pay for it 🤭
ChatGPT just saved me 4-5 hours of work fighting with AWS IAM permissions… 😳🫣😬
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
ChatGPT just saved me 4-5 hours of work fighting with AWS IAM permissions… 😳🫣😬
I’ve been crushing some Pulumi code in Go recently and I’m getting the feeling that this is the IaC stack of the future… I’m rolling out production-grade multi-cloud networking and compute with a few simple lines of a custom config that marshals into a struct.
November 20, 2024 at 2:08 AM
I’ve been crushing some Pulumi code in Go recently and I’m getting the feeling that this is the IaC stack of the future… I’m rolling out production-grade multi-cloud networking and compute with a few simple lines of a custom config that marshals into a struct.
Today I decided to dig into a k8s networking issue that has been plaguing one of my clusters recently. Once out of every 10 times or so, a specific cron job can't resolve DNS. I'm in the trenches looking at iptables traces, and found this helpful article... support.tigera.io/help/s/artic...
November 5, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Today I decided to dig into a k8s networking issue that has been plaguing one of my clusters recently. Once out of every 10 times or so, a specific cron job can't resolve DNS. I'm in the trenches looking at iptables traces, and found this helpful article... support.tigera.io/help/s/artic...
I've been playing around with tunneling recently, and found this cool piece about creating Docker tunnels over SSH using the golang cli:
the.binbashtheory.com/posts/docker...
the.binbashtheory.com/posts/docker...
Docker Tunneling in Go
A trick i learned recently is that Docker client in Golang can accept custom dialer which can be so useful to connect to a remote Docker engine through SSH tunneling, all you need is a working SSH con...
the.binbashtheory.com
November 4, 2024 at 6:23 PM
I've been playing around with tunneling recently, and found this cool piece about creating Docker tunnels over SSH using the golang cli:
the.binbashtheory.com/posts/docker...
the.binbashtheory.com/posts/docker...
It seems that I missed the boat on the golden days of Twitter, so I'm trying my luck here now!
November 4, 2024 at 4:01 PM
It seems that I missed the boat on the golden days of Twitter, so I'm trying my luck here now!