It's true! Who else could name 30 years of violent conflict The Troubles?

Yup. Check out the Project 2025 Tracker.

Personally I upgraded to the Premium plan after a few uses and I felt like I didn't need any other tools. I have a Tilt, and I enjoy having the data recorded with each batch.

I find myself working on recipes using different computers or on a mobile, so I ended up with Brewfather.

I tried for a bit to sync my Beersmith files between machines, but eventually they got corrupted. Fair, since it was never meant to do that.

It supports teleportation movement (where you point at a place and you're transported there instantly), which is way better on the 'ol inner ear.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ offers a slightly more honest version with aggregate numbers

I've been running all my apps on my NAS as docker containers, but some get 'stuck' occasionally, requiring a reboot of the whole machine. Using the NAS was mostly out of convenience.

I also had an old laptop running k3s, hosting a few stateless services.

This week I picked up three Wyse 5070 devices and started setting up a more permanent Kubernetes cluster. I decided to use Talos Linux, which is a steep learning curve, but should hopefully reduce the amount of ongoing work for upgrades. I'll be deploying everything with FluxCD this time around too.

I've stumbled a bit with the synology-csi-driver. It didn't work with Talos out of the box, but turns out the latest commits have a fix. The only thing remaining before I can start porting the apps over is figuring out how to spin up a new CA and generate client certificates for mTLS. I currently do that in Vault but it seems like something cert-manager could handle going forward.

I've been using this blueprint to do what you've described and I'm quite happy with it.

One thing I learned - brew a beer style you enjoy. I naively tried to brew a brown ale for my first two attempts, solely because it was recommended as one of the easier styles to tackle as a beginner. I wasn't fond of either, and it put me off the hobby for a while. Then a couple of years later I brewed a clone of an IPA I knew and enjoyed and it stuck! I had a clear idea of what I wanted to improve the next time... and the next, and the next. If you do enjoy brown ales, then all the better!

Keep chasing that dragon! 🍻

Are they on Mastodon?

It's making fun of things like: "ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer".

Don't forget DeArrow!