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Notes on infra, reliability, and whatever I'm breaking this week.
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2026-08-17
Agnostic, not HCL with Python punctuation
Picking Pulumi over Terraform buys you a programming language, and most of us never use it. Models, plus one handler per provider, is what makes the choice worth it.
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2026-08-10
Poor man’s IPMI: an old USB stick as an out-of-band power button
Shut down the wrong computer first and the headless one becomes unreachable. A udev rule that maps physical USB ports to suspend, reboot and shutdown — the fallback for when the network is the thing that broke.
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2026-07-16
VIM
Cheatsheet #1: the Vim commands I actually reach for — windows, buffers, sessions, vimdiff.