Greg Herlein

I added Clicky web analytics to my blog (running hugo)

Tl/Dr: It’s on the network! But in my analysis, I fell victim to my own bias.

Picking up from last weekend, I play with the ESP32-POE-EA board from Olimex using the Espressif FreeRTOS ESP-IDF Framework.

Been awhile, head spinning, took some time to just play.

Prometheus Alert Manager is an “AP” system, in “CAP” terms. How we made it more Consistent, including a forked repo of the Alert Manager code.

Telephony made a huge leap forward last week. It’s insanely easy to build a voice chatbot for phone calls!

Back to the future, debian again. Ubuntu begone!

Seems like everyone is clammoring for DevOps folks. Do they really know what they want? That term means all things to all people. Some thoughts.

Yet again I am thinking about the overall software development/deployment life cycle, and am back to thinking about CI/CD again.

“Cattle, not Pets!” they say. Except that for a lot of development, coders make their own laptop their favorite pet. “It works on my machine!” becomes normal. I got tired of that and automated the creation of my dev environment..

I’m continuing to dive deep on modern typescript/node development. I fixed a bug in a new tool I am using (projen) and learned a ton along the way. This post is to share some of that.