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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Came to prepare my office for the day, found this

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Took kahlűa to cool off in the waterfalls. Found a horse

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's raining. Kahlűa was never allowed to lie outside in the rain at the beach. Something tells me she loves her new home

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

AI is a powerful tool but it is just that. A tool. It is not a replacement for real life and it's certainly not a replacement for your brain

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

AI has so much promise but this is the reality. It's being used to shorten your attention span even further than it already was. It's being used to stifle critical thinking. When coupled with the algorithms of social media, it is flat out dangerous

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

They are designed to be addictive, to suck you in to the endless doom scroll cycle

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

They are mindless garbage. Infinite variations on around 10 storylines, all disguised as having originated as reddit posts

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

By hour 5, all I was being served was AI slop even though I was initially deliberately skipping those videos

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I ran an experiment on YouTube. I deleted my entire history, subscriptions and liked videos then just started watching shorts to see how long it took. I got my first AI slop video served after approx 3h of watch time.

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Cloud Native Summit Munich @cnsmunich.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Delighted to welcome you as one of our speakers, Xavier! We're looking forward to your talk! 🚀 Join us: cnsmunich.ticketbutler.io/en/e/cnsmuni... #opensource #CloudNative #kubernetes #cnsmunich

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Even a highly skilled pilot with thousands of hours on type can suffer from confirmation bias when stress runs high. This is a solution sought by an engineer to solve a problem said engineer is facing - bias is already in the mix even for the most highly skilled. Peer review is essential.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A few years ago I wrote 3 (very) short stories that were kinda loosely linked together. In two of them I killed characters. At the weekend I read something real but relevant so went back to those stories. I've now written 6 stories and 4 are dead. All very deliberate accidents. Oops.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A couple of days ago I wrote an essay response to Uwe Friedrichsens excellence blog series on his "Thoughts on AI and software development." This is that essay. No squirrels were harmed in its writing. choclab.net/2025/06/19/s...

choclab.net

Symphonies, Squirrels, and Semi-Sentient Code – choclab

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I finally bit the bullet and decided it was high time I tried once again to maintain a blog. I can absolutely 100% pinky promise that this will not last more than 3 posts before I forget where I parked the domain - I'm simply not that organised but until then - you can find it here choclab.net

choclab.net

choclab – chocolate labradors

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Marcus Noble @averagemarcus.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Oh hey look! Want to come take over my job? Want to work with some increadible people? This job is 🔥hot🔥 Happy to chat about it if anyone wants.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My first experience with voice recognition was this parrot called prody from creative labs that flew around the screen and "reacted" to voice. Years later came Siri, Google assist and even Bixby None of them could understand a full blown Lancashire accent WTF makes you think your AI can?

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

A fun little project I've been working on for the last few weeks bmx is a bubblemix driven Tmux session and Kubeconfig context manager written in go When dealing with lots of clusters every day it's easy to get lost where you are. I wrote this to help me maintain my sanity github.com/mproffitt/bmx

An image of my tmux and kube config session manager

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Marcus Noble @averagemarcus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

So much in this months edition! 🤯

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Stefan Prodan @stefanprodan.com · 21/02/2025

Flux v2.5 is out 🎉 This release is jam-packed with new features! We have integrated CEL to enable custom health checks, added support for GitHub App auth, ephemeral environment for Pull Requests & Merge Request and so much more. #fluxcd #gitops #kubernetes fluxcd.io/blog/2025/02...

fluxcd.io

Announcing Flux 2.5 GA

We are thrilled to announce the release of Flux v2.5.0! Here you will find highlights of new features and improvements in this release.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Highly experimental operator/controller for running local clusters (kind, etc) in the hub-spoke model. A weekends fun with kubebuilder, kind, Linux and IPTables github.com/mproffitt/ku...

github.com

GitHub - mproffitt/kubeconfig-operator: Experimental

Experimental. Contribute to mproffitt/kubeconfig-operator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm now curious if I can get the GPU shared to an EKS cluster running inside @localstack.cloud running inside a kind cluster ... Maybe a puzzle for next week.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Something to do on Sunday. Sharing the GPU with a vCluster running inside a kind cluster. This turned out to be easier than I expected. gist.github.com/mproffitt/a8...

gist.github.com

kind + CAPI vclusters + GPU

kind + CAPI vclusters + GPU. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Seem to recall you were part responsible for recruiting me but then buggered off so I never got to work with you. Still find your name plastered everywhere though so your legacy lives on but Honeybadger is mine now.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

It's my better half @roshanathambyrajah.bsky.social last night in Spain before flying back to Manchester to face the ice and snow so I cooked Donald with cauliflower and potato cheese in plum, tangerine and white wine sauce. This is definitely one of my better creations.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

One day, I am going to sample the dog snoring and make it into a masterpiece...

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I have colleagues who would very much agree with that statement 😂

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

But as you point out, namespace scoping comes with crossplane 2 and cel is just that function nobody has written yet. Still, I would love to see where kro ends up. I could see it working as a glue quite nicely whilst crossplane is more the tenon joint you've still to cut.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The arguments you make seem to be the same I have for kratix. Lots of potential, just not yet. I think the "why/what/how" is a hugely important question though but will 6 months to a year be enough for it to improve sufficiently to make that statement?

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

There's a reason I have 3 screens. I try to have nothing behind the terminal. I also avoid the light from the dredger but that just means general careful positioning. That said, this is about the only effect I use and only on the terminal.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Interesting to learn how many commands still require a max colour profile of 256 colours so any of the `direct` 16m colour profiles don't really work, also that most tmux themes completely ignore the menu ...

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Spent part of Christmas completely re-theming my shell so all colour-schemes move over to TokyoNight. Also writing a small helper plugin for tmux that offers a set of quick commands which overlay my session so I don't have to interrupt my workflow to quickly check something.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Up until 2am playing dice with the family, up at 7 walking off the hangover whilst the dog played ball in the sea. Now ready for turkey 2.0

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Giant Swarm @giantswarm.io · 25/12/2024

🎄 Kubernetes admins, may your clusters scale, your logs be clear, and your alerts stay silent this holiday season. 🎁 Here’s to a festive season with zero downtime and deployments as smooth as fresh snow. Happy holidays from all of us at Giant Swarm! 🎅

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

as I thought it would be picked up by the community and was definitely a project I expected to take off. It didn't, but I hear there is rumours of the original open source UI getting new contributions so who knows what next year will bring

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Oh yeah, I know what I was doing in the first couple of months of the year, WeaveWorks had just opensourced their entire catalog and I was experimenting with, and upgrading their enterprise UI for FluxCD

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Prototype == Production yeah? Just kidding, I have a ton of stuff I want to explore here - if you've not seen Joe's thread on it, check it out bsky.app/profile/sali...

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Fine there's a bunch of stuff we still don't understand but hell, I'd never even looked at it before yesterday so for a project I only knew in name, to a working prototype in 2 days built off a draft PR that needed to be patched to compile, that's a rush

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Then we come to the last couple of days and the rabbit hole myself and @salisburyheavyindustries.com found ourselves in with @kcp.io - What an absolutely awesome project. This has so much potential I don't even know which way to look - all I see is ideas

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

We'll see where I actually end up but I have a few places I really want to check out, although I missed out on the one with a real cave. That would have been awesome. Having an office that's a real rock cave and not the glass fishbowl I work from today.

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Martin Proffitt @notapipeline.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

So now I'm house hunting - like what the actual fuck, a real house, not an apartment overlooking the beach outside Barcelona, but a house with a garden and everything 😱

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