Sysadmin Getting started with developing Kubernetes on Windows Kubernetes, often referred to as K8s, is an open-source container orchestration platform that helps users deploy, scale and manage containerised workloads. It has become ubiquitous with cloud-native technologies and after over a decade of development has one of the most thriving open source communities. Contributions to the project are deployed
GameDev Exporting landscapes from Gaea to Unreal Engine 5 Recently, while working on a game development project, I needed to create a landscape. I found the landscape tools in Unreal Engine 5 to be unsatisfactory for what I wanted to create. That is when I came across Gaea, a node based terrain design tool. It had a free plan
Sysadmin Upgrading major versions of a multi instance Ghost setup I run a couple of blogs using Ghost and running on a Digital Ocean droplet and today I had to go through the arduous task of upgrading it. I am not exaggerating when I say arduous as it was anything but trivial. Initially, I started by upgrading the Ghost instances
GameDev Trying my hand at game dev The last few years have been been draining. The constant lockdowns along with the persistent existential threat sucked all my enthusiasm out of me. Nothing felt interesting anymore, not even gaming, one of the few joys of my life. I tried my hand at a lot of things, but nothing
Kubernetes Deploying a HA Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi using Kubeadm ā¯“Before I even begin, please note that things change fast in the Kubernetes space and unless you are using the exact same versions as mentioned in this post, this post might not be suitable for you. I have been working on Kubernetes at work for a little less than a
Elite Dangerous Elite Dangerous Will NOT Be a Dead Game by 2024 I recently saw a tweet about a dead horse getting beaten up one more time. Only just read this, and it's a couple of months old now, but it expresses the concerns and fears of many about the future of #EliteDangerous and #elitedangerousodyssey worth a read. https://t.
Rant Banking applications, please listen to your security experts! Honestly, I have had it with Banking applications and their God awful "security" measures. Its almost as if they want malicious actors to get access to their customer's accounts. And its not just any one bank in particular, I have seen the same thing over and
Programming I tried using ES Modules, I really did... I am an early adopter of technology, as long I don't have to pay and what better way to do that than using the latest and the greatest of the frameworks or tools while developing. This is my experience of trying to use ES Modules in my TypeScript
Getting Started Start of a new blog Well, so here I am. After working professionally over 5 years and 4 more as an engineer, I have finally decided to finally put in some effort into maintain a blog. I have been mulling over this for quite a while and finally bit the bullet. I have tried starting
