Rusty Bower

Culver’s rotates a different frozen custard flavor every day at every location, and the flavors are not synchronized between stores. Four restaurants within a reasonable drive means four different answers to “is it worth going tonight,” and the only way to find out has been to open the app four times.

I play in seven fantasy football leagues. Five on Sleeper, two on Yahoo. Six snake drafts and one auction. Team counts of 10 and 12. PPR, half-PPR, and one league that pays a point for every first down. One of them scores individual defensive players. One scores kickers purely on field goal yardage with no penalty for a miss. Five are ordinary redrafts, one is a keeper league, and one is a dynasty league where rosters carry over whole.

My cluster — a single-node K3s instance running about 60 ArgoCD-managed applications — had been slowly dying for months. Pods crash-looped with “context deadline exceeded” errors. Leader elections failed. The metrics server stopped working entirely. I assumed it was resource pressure and tuned probe timeouts. The real problem was underneath all of it: K3s’s SQLite datastore had silently grown to 40 GB.

I have three Amazon Fire tablets mounted around the house running Fully Kiosk Browser as Home Assistant dashboards. They’re cheap ($35-50 each during sales), they have decent screens, and Fully Kiosk turns them into locked-down kiosks that show a dashboard and nothing else.

My music setup had accreted into a mess. Across two Kubernetes clusters I was running Navidrome, Lyrion Music Server (LMS), beets, and my own AI radio station (SUB/WAVE) - plus a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer wired into a Dayton DAX66 matrix amp for whole-home audio. Four things that all “played music,” none of which talked to each other, and no single place to control any of it from Home Assistant.

I started the day asking why one of my Frigate cameras was using more CPU than the others. I finished it having moved every LoadBalancer in my Kubernetes cluster onto BGP-routed addresses, because along the way I found a service that had been silently unreachable for two years.