Moving this site from Hugo to Astro with AI
The site had been stuck on an old Hugo for years. Splitting the move into eleven tasks and giving each one to an agent got it done in an afternoon.
Ideas and imagination are boundless
I'm an engineer, whose expertise and passion lies in development work, microservice architecture, software architecture, solution designing, network infrastructure setup (clusters, cloud), problem solving, data algorithms, big data, data mining, machine learning (ML), natural language processing, artificial intelligence (AI), and always ready to debug that elusive issue, and learn new things.
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Renaming a k3s node is not a cosmetic change
I renamed four nodes because the old domain annoyed me. The cluster stayed green for weeks while sitting one reboot away from losing every worker.
Overriding one name in a public domain without breaking the domain
A single internal zone for the domain makes the resolver authoritative for all of it, so mail and the public site start returning NXDOMAIN to everyone in the house.
A name should say what something is, not where it runs
I counted seven naming shapes on my own network for the same kind of thing, and one of the suffixes meant two different backends depending on which name you picked.
My Pi-hole had not been blocking ads for most of the network
An adlist with no group assignment applies to no client. Mine had 93,516 domains in it and had been doing nothing for as long as it had been there.
dnsmasq answers on the interface, not on the address
The gateway pings from inside the container and its DNS never answers. I got the diagnosis wrong twice, and the second time it was my own test that was lying.
A UniFi firmware update wipes everything except /data
My container had been dead since the last flash, because the flash took /usr and /var with it. The boot hook that puts it back cannot download anything.
Technitium DNS in a container on a UDM Pro Max
The UDM runs Debian and systemd, so it can run an nspawn container. What it cannot do is let that container talk to the router it is attached to.
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