Eleven Links of Note - January 27th, 2026

Former astronaut on lunar spacesuits: “I don’t think they’re great right now”: it feels like they could have done better given the learnings from the lunar landings, but I supposed it is better to be bulky and safe than to be light and leaky.

Building multi-platform container images: these days, you can run an ARM laptop and build a .NET app for a container running on Windows. So being able to build and target multiple platforms is a must.

Automating Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Those managing Windows environment will find this useful.

Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3: the fallout from MinIO retreat from open source drives home the need to find alternative solutions for self-hosted S3, of which, thankfully, there are several.

Self-Hosting Email on FreeBSD: A Secure, Jailed Setup with Postfix and Dovecot: I really think it is probably a bad idea to host your email, but if you must. . .

How Your Coffee Shop Wi-Fi Explains OpenShift TLS Security: Easy to understand overview for every technician working with OpenShift for even experienced engineers.

Python datetime module guide: I find myself having to fight with the datatime module every time I used this, so I am thankful for this resource.

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems: When managing events, you need to handle messages that did not get processed. Ideally, your event system will have that feature, but if not, this is an acceptable alternative.

You Need More AWS Accounts Than You Think: The reason why we are having this discussion is that AWS has very janky support for multiple accounts. It is hard to manage accounts and their permissions, as well as managing configurations. I feel that Google Cloud projects does accounts a lot better.

Television is 100 years old today: And like today, nothing worth watching.

Things I’ve learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager: Important lessons for those looking to move on to engineering management.

Eleven Links of Note - January 22nd, 2026

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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail: An important lesson as you grow in your career, especially engineering: You can't (or should not) save everything.
IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT: Important to note that. Because, IPv6 or IPv4, you still need to firewall your …

FreeBSD and chef-client - a part II (of sorts)

Finally changed chef-client with an updated recipe to support FreeBSD.

Under the chef-repo/chef-client directory, I added the following files:

./templates/freebsd/rc.d/chef-client.erb
./templates/freebsd/rc.conf.d/chef.erb

And updated:

./recipes/service.rb

The locations corresponds to the directory location under the default #{conf} directory …

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