Why do I prefer Markdown over WYSIWYG? Because if the WYSIWYG editor is buggy, you are shot out of luck trying to format your email/document/whatever the way you want. Looking at you, Mail.app for MacOS 15, which seems to have the buggiest bullets/numbering implementation I’ve ever used.

For anyone else using Vivaldi who wants Kagi as their default search engine, yet has had issues using Kagi’s Chrome extension to achieve this, try these instructions instead. It’s a manual process, but after doing it myself, it a process that seems to work better.

Driving Kubernetes config all day, a skill which I don’t really have nor have much interest in learning. I can find myself around a Kubernetes cluster — the app Freelens is great for that — and I’ve made some progress in getting a Helm chart deployed via Flux. But, it’s not doing much to keep me awake, or focus on the task at hand.

Aren’t the “remember me” checkboxes on login forms a bit unnecessary? I’m almost always using my own computers so of course I want the website to remember me. Granted, this is not the case when I’m using a shared machine, but maybe a “this is not my computer” checkbox would be more useful there.

I kind of wish I cared about the Apple event. I mean, I’m glad others do, and there was one time in the past where I did, at least vicariously (I don’t have an iPhone). But recently? 🤷 Might be that it’s a maturing product category, and that any advancements are incremental at best. Or maybe it’s just age, and being around long enough to have seen it all before. In either case, it’s getting harder to be excited about something that you yourself don’t use.

Apparently it takes Spotify to raise their price by $2.00 for me to cancel my subscription. I guess it acts like a good reminder of how much I was paying a month for a service I barely used. YouTube Music will be my secondary music service now (Alto is, and always will be, primary).

Ending the day on a win. Managed to diagnose and resolve a slow PostgreSQL query by creating an index, and also managed to configure Istio to allow communication between two Kubernetes cluster. These are super esoteric, and I’m not expecting anyone to care. Still, it’s good to leave work on a high.

I can’t for the life of me get this Docker image updated. I’ve tried deploying it to Kubernetes multiple times and it’s just refusing to launch any version newer than 4 commits ago. I may have to deploy via CI/CD, which will work, but is much slower than from the command line. ⏳

Father’s Day over here. Saw a family in the cafe with the father and son wearing matching Bluey T-shirt’s, with the message on the son’s T-shirt saying “My Dad’s awesome” and the Dad’s saying “Dad goals.” Like that idea.