Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Eleven Links of Note - January 16th, 2026

Un-complicating the Clock: How the SLES 16 Lifecycle Redefines Enterprise Support: If your application needs a 15 year operating system to function, you either seriously made an mistake with your app or you are in the environment where the organization is not will to invest in your infrastructure. Either way, it is a bad thing for a company to make money off your dysfunctional environment.

Memory shortage could push PC shipments to pre-pandemic lows: This set me back on planning to upgrading my homelab. Speaking of home lab.

Scaling Out: My Journey from SNO to a 3-Node Openshift Cluster: I somehow managed to do this once. I may do this again, as I thinking of reusing my old nodes into a mini-cluster for utility work in my home lab.

Istio mTLS Explained: Securing Service-to-Service Traffic in Kubernetes: In high security environment, end to end encryption is a must, even in what looks to be a trusted setup. If you are in such an environment and you are using Kubernetes, this is worth reading.

KubeVirt Performance Benchmarking Suite: I'd run it, but I am afraid that my homelab will explode. But if you are in a real environment, try it out.

Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells: Very easy to leak credentials in the shell. This how you would handle those credentials.

ASCII Clouds: Purdy.

I Hate Github Actions with Passion: This is over the top. If you need speed with your testing, test locally. Or try out GitLab CI/CD

I Love You, Redis, But I’m Leaving You for SolidQueue: As a lapsed Rails programmer, I love the idea of SolidQueue if it means it simplies my infrastructure.

Docker Compose Architect (Compoviz): Docker compose is still useful for standing up simple container environments and this looks awesome to try.

Instancepedia - EC2 Instance Type Browser: It is usually a pain to try to look up an instance price in the web browser, so being able to look it up in the CLI scratch that particular itch.

Image by Laura Ascione @ ESchoolNews on This district champions media literacy to combat “brain rot”

What the actual science says about "brain rot": I personally am trying to actively quit tiktok or at least curb my use of it.
Gentoo 2025 in retrospect: I used Gentoo in my early days …

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