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Uncloud Tips

Uncloud’s docs are great, but a few things are buried a bit. Hence a simple list of things that can improve your interactions with Uncloud. SSH ProxyJump Sometimes you can not directly connect to a cluster, you first have to SSH into a host that is directly connected to a cluster. If this is the case use a SSH proxy jump (see ssh(1)). This allows you to, e.g. use a local docker to build images that can then be pushed to the cluster.

Miek Gieben · EN

DENIC Post-mortem Critique

This is the final report from DENIC on the outage they experienced on the 5th of May 2026. I appreciate the openness, but I’ve reviewed (and written :/) many post-mortems and this one could be a lot better. Using one of the readily available post-mortem templates would have helped. The main issues: No timeline. Lack of technical details. 50% of the action items are weakly defined. Let go over it. I’ve put my comments after “My remarks”, after each quoted section.

Miek Gieben · EN

Uncloud Unpush

Unpush is an experimental attempt to write automatic CI/CD in Uncloud, it either works via web hooks or polls a repository for changes. When seen it redeploys a service via its compose.yaml file from the repository. Now of course this works for GitHub, but we have GitLab and it reimplements a bunch of code from uncloud , which can all be removed if you just use the uc -tool. I will probably butcher the code quite a bit, so seems fair to push this to a different repository at some point.

Miek Gieben · EN

Uncloud Server Setup

I’m thinking about “upgrading” my server from Ubuntu to Fedora and thereby also making Uncloud a part of my routine, but …… This can be done, but doing a container style setup, does mean I need some extra infra, like a container registry, also my DNS server needs to set source IP addresses for notifies unsure if that will still work. And Caddy with L4 forwarding and getting TLS certificates can cause issues, because it interferes with each other (i.e. Caddy is starting, but not L4-forwarding, aks for a certificate, DNS is still not working, cert is not handed ou

Miek Gieben · EN

2026 Ardennen

Fietsen in de Ardennen met Ans om te oefenen voor Duchenne Heroes.

Miek Gieben · EN

Uncloud Server Setup: DONE!

This was the plan and I finally got around doing it. The original list was: A docker registry for pushing and pulling images too. Maybe I can setup Forgejo to also be a registry, but just the docker registry might be enough. The image comes from Docker Hub. Caddy with L4 forwarding, I can easily make the image myself, and push it to the local registry. S3 storage so that I can make backups with Kopia - probably going to use Garage for this, doesn’t need a certificate and should only advertise itself on the internal network - not sure how to do this, without actively blocking. atomdns as

Miek Gieben · EN

Uncloud Host Networking

My server is almost fully converted to be managed by Uncloud , except for one service: atomdns . Which at first I didn’t mind, but now find annoying, because: uc ps doesn’t list it; my Prometheus metrics collector runs in the cluster, so it can’t easily scrape it; updates for it are different; managing means logging in onto the specific machine. Hence I wanted it run inside the cluster. There are however a few constraints, atomdns needs:

Miek Gieben · EN

Unrequired Reading, 002

I tried a new hobby this week, making chocolate bonbons. Painted the moulds with cocoa butter I bought a few colours, shelled them with tempered chocolate, filled them with curd and sealed the whole thing with another layer. It was fiddly and messy, I did Apple and blackcurrant for the first batch, then a lemon that came out wincingly sharp against sweet Belgian chocolate. I made quite a few mistakes but it was nice to do something with my hands. Some of them even turned out nicely. Watching Invincible Series Four was really good, if you can get past the gore it’s moral quandaries that superhe

Matt Davey · EN

Unrequired Reading, 003

Tools over problems I've been thinking this week about how addictive it is with these new tools to be able to build things without so much of the friction. The danger of that is falling in love with the effort and interactions over solving the problem. This is partly because of Karl Koch's piece on falling in love with the build , which is about the dangerous little pleasure of making something nice and then trying to find a reason for it afterwards. It is aimed at design engineers, but it applies neatly to almost anything creative. Just look at this website, it's exactly that level of over-en

Matt Davey · EN

The deep work versus all the work

With AI tools there's more software shipping more than ever. The thread across my talks with other leaders are consistently being told to scale beyond adding headcount. The model of the trifecta and design being embedded in every piece of work on a single roadmap just isn't scaling for this new world. If we don't adapt we end up being either overwhelmed with work or only overseeing part of the product. Watch enough work go out without design and you notice what's slipping: quality. Not some abstract version of it, the standard you've held for years, now leaving the building in your name withou

Matt Davey · EN

Sheringham, Norfolk

Matt Davey

Slovenia

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Bucket List

Have children Teach someone how to read Visit Dubrovnik Fly in a helicopter Visit the Scottish Highlands Visit the Glenfinnan Viaduct Visit Dublin Visit New York September 2026 Ride in an NYC Cab September 2026 Visit Peru Host a national radio show Be an extra in a TV show Visit Venice Make mozzarella from scratch Have dinner with someone famous Fly in a two person plane Have work displayed in a gallery Own a small design studio April 2012 Own a house October 2012 Start a family June 2013 Have a pet companion Nov 2011 Make my first 100k Nov 2012 Have my first 3k project July 2012 Have my first

Matt Davey · EN

New York City

Matt Davey

Toronto Core

I lived in Toronto for a few years quite a while ago and these are the things that shaped my memory of the great city. Inspired by Saigon Core and Toronto Core . Most of these places will be shut or changed entirely by now but this is a time capsule within my head. An evening at Roy Thomson Hall listening to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork Bao and Duck Confit Banh Mi from Banh Mi Boys The far too spicy Kothu Roti from Saffron Spice Kitchen Gra Bong from PAI Mini donuts and a coffee from Little Nicky's A quiet evening in the Aquarium Sour cherry slice from Wanda's Pie

Matt Davey · EN

These present circumstances

This is a direct follow up to the previous. I let some time pass because I didn’t want to get stuck writing, even if knowing this severely weakens intent and efficacy (and always consider this here isn’t a dialogue, but just a kind of soapbox where I mostly talk to myself to clarify things for […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

Assassin’s Apprentice – Robin Hobb

People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. I was some 60 pages from the end of the book in June, but then it meant I had to write something about it here, so I put it on hold while starting to read tons of other books through the […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

Publishing Industry Blinders

This is just an unplanned extra, not very relevant. Today I received a not especially important book order. I wouldn’t be writing about it. It contains the latter three books by Ruocchio, Kingdoms of Death, Ashes of Men, Disquiet Gods, just to have them all before the last one comes out in November (but I’ll […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

On Malazan reading orders

I wanted to comment on a blog post by Werthead and reading orders in general. Following the general premise that a reading order should simply maximize reader enjoyment as a first read. You could then rearrange orders, following plotlines or chronology, but at that point an experienced reader is able to make their own choice. […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

Is Gene Wolfe a good writer?

Yes, of course he is. The title is intended to be rhetorical, in this case. But it’s the result of what I’ve asked myself: would I think this as good writing if I didn’t have a giant bias and prejudice, knowing how highly regarded Gene Wolfe is? He is one of those great writers who […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

1?84 – (spoilers) Haruki Murakami

Oh well, here we are, aren’t we? I did not intend writing about this book, as the things I have to put here into words have already gone through my mind several times. Doing it once again, trying to be coherent, is just more unpleasant effort. But here we are. The title, 1Q84, should essentially […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

Twin Peaks, explained?

While this side of the blog is temporarily(?) paused, I just wanted to link this: https://bluerosearchive.com/ And thankfully I searched my own website, because I already wrote in my mind half this blog post and was going to write ONCE AGAIN the same introductory things I wrote already. How I encountered the thing the first […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

The Age of Decaying Storytelling

I’m so glad about myself when I manage to restrain myself from writing here, so if this shows up it means I’ve failed. This has been triggered by reading a blog post about a (series of) book with a cool premise, that I think I’ve known in a form or another for years, maybe? But […]

Looping Wor(l)d · EN

Scripting a Zoho catch-all filter

I use Zoho as my email provider, and I recently learned that you can setup a catch-all forwarding address . This is pretty great, because that means I can receive any email sent to my domain! Go ahead, try it . I want to sort the emails I receive into their own folder, though, depending on the delivery address (for example, lol@miccah.io will go to /catch-all/lol ). It turns out, Zoho supports custom mail filters using a scripting DSL called deluge , so I wrote one!

miccah.io · EN