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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 25/07/2026

At SDCC my kid said the most gen-alpha thing I can imagine: Does Star Trek even still upload?

Tim Hockin @thock.in · 29/06/2026

Every now and then I end up on NextDoor for something and I can't help but look around. It's just a cesspool of grumpy boomers complaining about life in California. Please leave, there are lots of people waiting to live in your houses. Sheesh.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 24/05/2026

Small trick for doing technical diagrams in Google Slides. I often want more attachment points for arrows. It turns out that the 16-pointed star has a whole bunch, and you can change the point depth so it looks like a circle/oval. I now use that instead of boxes or circles.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 20/05/2026

Best compliment I have received all week: "I was reading some substrate mds and was pretty impressed that it sounded like it’s coming from a human" They ARE coming from a human! We put a fair amount of work into them. They are "artisanal, hand-crafted docs", if you will.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 20/05/2026

I am happy to share a little thing we have been cooking up: github.com/agent-substr... Problem statement: How can we effectively host a bazillion mostly-idle agents in a regular-sized Kubernetes cluster? This is *demo-grade* software, but it shows some ideas.

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GitHub - agent-substrate/substrate: Agent Substrate: the core system

Agent Substrate: the core system. Contribute to agent-substrate/substrate development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 16/05/2026

Wayland is 100%, in every way, not ready for prime time. :(

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 13/05/2026

Every post on /r/kubernetes which concludes with "Curious to hear..." will continue to be removed with prejudice. Just stop with the BS, please.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 13/05/2026

There are things I can "disagree and commit" on, but NOT using the Oxford comma is not one. To my dying day, I will keep reinserting it into any doc that gives me editor access.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 13/04/2026

"We are experiencing high demand, please try again later" on an airline's website is pathetic. Tell me you don't give a shit about your customers without telling me you don't give a shit about your customers.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 21/03/2026

Sadly, I will not be at KubeCon this week. To show all my kubernaut friends just how much I miss you, I have a small gift. If you missed out on getting a deck of Exploding Clusters cards, well now you can play online. exploding.k8s.io Go easy on me, it's just a "free time" project. Have fun!

exploding.k8s.io

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 17/03/2026

A tiny hummingbird has made her nest in the dwarf satsuma tree outside my front door. Now I feel obligated to protect her from neighborhood cats. You should have picked a taller tree, mama bird!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 17/03/2026

I bought what I thought was a 12 foot loop of specialty cabling for $20. What I got was 12 INCHES. mea culpa, I guess.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 11/12/2025

"Our website is currently experiencing heavy demand. Please try again shortly." It's almost 2026 - there's just no excuse for this.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 23/11/2025

I won a round of Exploding Clusters against my kids! I thought you might want to know.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 08/11/2025

Believe it or not, I still have some special Kubernetes stickers left from KubeCon's past. If you see me around, say hello and ask for a sticker!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 08/11/2025

For the moment my flight is alive and on-time. See you all soon!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 26/10/2025

Anyone else worried about the air traffic control situation, what with KubeCon just around the corner?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 18/10/2025

Home maintenance is not for the weak of spirit. Or of wallet. JFC, this project never ends. It's one thing after another. We should have just moved.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 17/09/2025

It's 2025. If your project's "how to install" document tells me "curl <url> | sh", you are dead to me.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 15/09/2025

When you find an interesting product online but it's just a little too expensive to YOLO, so you scour the web for reviews or comparisons or just the technical spec and find NOTHING...do you really want to buy that product? The "locate a dealer" vibe is off-putting. I guess this one is not for me.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 28/08/2025

I can't tell you how much fun I am having, making Gemini and/or ChatGPT edit a picture of my house to change the color. We need to re-paint, and this is so much better than collecting paint cards from Home Depot.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 01/07/2025

Heard on a rock radio station today IN CALIFORNIA: a disgusting DHS commercial, full of heinous fear-mongering and of passionate kissing of Trump's ass. Uggh.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 12/06/2025

YES YES YES!! Ok, to temper my enthusiasm -- did anyone thing "History of the World Part 2" was good? Brooks can often be hilarious but sometimes his humor comes across like an 11 year old boy. Still, benefit of the doubt.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 12/06/2025

OMG TAKE MY MONEY. Will Rick Moranis to come back?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 01/06/2025

God damn, you know what AI service I would pay for? Product search. Find me options for a thingamajig between 26 and 30 inches wide, in stainless steel or black, that includes a power switch but not an LED screen, and costs less than $400. Summarize the differences between them. TAKE MY MONEY

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 17/05/2025

Andor is the Star Wars I have wanted ever since Episode I broke my heart nearly 30 years ago.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 17/05/2025

My favorite little-known new feature in kubernetes v1.33: Show me pods with a container running as root. kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.containerStatuses[].user.linux.uid == 0) .metadata.name'

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 07/05/2025

How did people forget how to do email? Or did they never know? Quoting text and responding inline seems to confuse the hell out of folks. Some feel the need to put their name before each response or change the color of their responses. Some just screw it up so badly it's not readable. Good grief!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 21/04/2025

Forced to use Wayland, and OMG everything is broken. Want to remap mouse buttons? Fuck you. Liked those consistent window decorations? FUCK YOU. Jesus christ, the more I use it the less I want to .

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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 27/03/2025

The community, formed by individuals and engineers across various organizations, is constantly under the hood, fine-tuning its core components.

thenewstack.io

An Ode to the Unsung Heroes of Kubernetes

The community, formed by individuals and engineers across various organizations, is constantly under the hood, fine-tuning its core components.

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Lucy Sweet @lucy.sh · 23/03/2025

On Thursday Kubecon Family Fortune (not Feud!) with me and @thock.in is back! With 8 amazing members of our contributor community vying for the ultimate prize of Kubecon Family Fortune Champion (definitely worth putting on a CV) kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txCe/...

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim H...

View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 24/03/2025

I am looking forward to episode 2 of my favorite game!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 10/03/2025

I have been in the queue for chat support with a particular software vendor for over 6 hours. I started at #32 and now #8. I think I am doing it out of spite at this point. I am pretty sure there's one poor soul answering every single chat support all day, by themselves.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 15/02/2025

Hacking on a side-quest, I wrote (with help from cursor AI!) a little io.Reader implementation that I thought was pretty clever. And then it turned out I didn't need it. :( I'll just save it in the folder of random things I might need one day. I should make a junk-drawer git repo.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 14/02/2025

I think we all know that YAML defines all of these as boolean false: no, No, NO, false, False, FALSE But did you know that these are all integers in YAML: 42, 42_, _42, _4_2_, __________4__________2__________ ... and they all mean the same thing?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 30/01/2025

Time for my tri-annual "complain about github" post. HOLY CRAP does it get slow. Typing comments into a particular PR, I have to wait 10 seconds for the textbox to catch up. Chrome says 100% CPU for that tab. Meanwhile I am posting this. Anyone at GitHub wants to shoulder-surf, drop me a note!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 28/01/2025

Apparently `type Foo []Foo` is a thing you can do in Go. Useless but neat.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 06/01/2025

Hear me out: toum as a finishing butter for steak. A+ in my book.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 03/01/2025

I spent all week retooling some code with a bunch of callers. As I got to the end, I realized this new, simpler model was insufficiently expressive for the almost-last callsite. A reminder: when building something, new, you HAVE TO tackle the hard cases first. A week of work is probably trash.

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Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The struggle is real.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 12/12/2024

Congrats to the release team and everyone who contributed to this release!

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 16/11/2024

I had a lot of fun at KubeCon NA this year. I didn't get to visit half as many booths as I would have liked, nor talks. I guess I have a lot of YouTube to watch. Our silly game went off better than I could have imagined. I send my enormous thanks to the contestants, who really brought it to life.

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 07/11/2024

Anyone figured how to wire up one of the AI services to plain old vim?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 06/11/2024

Did GitHub lose the code-review feature where the filename would pin to the top as the code was scrolled?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 06/11/2024

I wrote a little bit about how to do deployment updates without serving errors in #Kubernetes. Since I don't have a blog, I'll just skeet (Note: was posted elsewhere Aug'22) You have some pods, and maybe an load-balancer, too. You want to update the deployment. How to do this "best" in K8s today?

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Tim Hockin @thock.in · 06/11/2024

How does this site not have better control of notifcations? I don't need my phone to buzz for likes. Please make it stop.

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