Nobody wants to hear "I understand your frustration"

Posted on Sat 10 October 2026 in blog • 2 min read

“I understand your frustration” is at best a useless, and at worst an utterly terrible thing to say to someone who reports to you.


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Podman Compose and Rootless Mode, an Update

Posted on Mon 05 October 2026 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Containers, Podman, Docker, systemd • 2 min read

An update to my standard approach to running rootless Podman containers


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Containing OpenCode with Podman

Posted on Sat 18 April 2026 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Podman, OpenCode • 3 min read

It’s not completely trivial to run OpenCode in rootless Podman. But it’s not impossible, either.


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Reviving a near-bricked Pinebook Pro

Posted on Sun 05 October 2025 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Pinebook Pro • 2 min read

I’ve recently had to bring back my Pinebook Pro from a zombie state.


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Exploding memory usage in Django/uWSGI containers

Posted on Sat 07 December 2024 in hints-and-kinks • Tagged with Kubernetes, Django, Containers, systemd • 3 min read

We recently came across an interesting problem at work while migrating from one flavor of Kubernetes to another. It’s sufficiently obscure to merit a brief write-up for reference.


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