My day job is, at the time of writing, being a Platform Engineer at a financial services company. I spend most of my day tending to Kubernetes clusters and deploying infrastructure on AWS. Last Friday, during Personal Development Time (10% time),I decided to have a crack at running my own "Bare Metal" Kubernetes cluster, on a couple of VMs, in order to gain a better understanding of the technology I use on a daily basis.
Published on 12 Feb 2024This post is a follow on from my previous post about learning Rust. While I was going through the initial "Hello, world!" phases I had a horrible idea for a first project:
"Asterisk is terrible! How hard could it be to write a PBX from scratch?"
Published on 24 Nov 2022I've been meaning to learn Rust for a while now. I never got into C or C++ as, frankly, memory management scared the hell out of me. I only got into Objective-C for a brief stint during University because of the advent of Automatic Reference Counting - without that crutch I was mostly useless.
Published on 22 Nov 2022The itch to get back into Space Station 13 development has struck again and, naturally, I am spending much more time writing development tooling than actually making shiny projects. Enter the dockerised BYOND development environment.
Published on 28 Jul 2020