A couple of days ago, the Hard Drive that I’d initially been using as my NAS (before investing in a beefy TrueNAS setup) failed. Since my homelab Kubernetes cluster predated the TrueNAS, this was the drive on which I’d stored configuration files for the cluster itself, which meant the cluster immediately went down. I probably could have salvaged it while flying the plane, but this was a great opportunity to start again from scratch using the various lessons I’d learned over the years.

A snippet that I find myself needing more often than I’d like to admit - when you’ve opened a file for editing in vim, but when you go to save you are reminded that it needs root permissions to do so.

Depending on how you look at it, I just finished up either the worst or the best snowboarding season of my life so far.