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1:1s aren't status meetings. They're for the person, not the project. Notes from years of running them, including the parts I got wrong.

Self-hosting a Flue agent on Kubernetes with Knative for the orgs that can't (or won't) ship to Cloudflare Workers.

A real Flue agent that auto-classifies and routes JIRA tickets, and asks a human when it isn't confident.

Two TypeScript agent frameworks doing very different things. Plus the TypeScript 7 beta makes the language fast enough to take seriously.

Running SFTPGo on Kubernetes with Azure Blob Storage as a virtual folder backend, because Azure's native SFTP support costs $219/month for the privilege.

Stop creating TLS secrets by hand. cert-manager automates certificate issuance and renewal in Kubernetes.

How to set the default TLS certificate for your Kubernetes ingress controllers and Gateway API implementations.

During my regularly scheduled lurking on Hacker News, I came across Don’t Become an Engineering Manager, making the case that senior engineers should stay IC. The ladder is flattening, Staff pays better, tech is moving too fast to step away. Probably right, but it bugs me. It treats the EM …