Since 2018, I’ve been working in the guts of Terraform, trying to find wide encompassing ways of building providers for Junos.

If programming is a gymnastics team sport, then architecture is the balance beam.

For my side projects, I’ve been working towards a nice modular unit of scale, in which a compute unit (VM) delivers services glued together by the excellent NATs.

A Penny Drops Other than virtual machines serving functions I can’t live without (Docker, CCTV, file storage etc), I begrudge turning more servers on because the hassle outweighs the gain.

Thursday A fair amount of doing and learning has happened in the last month and there are some conclusions worth font-based screen estate.

Monday 24th May 2021 I decided to install Storybook so I can follow along on my local machine.

Initially I’ll commit 30 minutes per day to this. That should be long enough for new material to stick and short enough so that some new info doesn’t converyorbelt other new info through my brain and out the other side.

I’m terrible at UI. I can hack together HTML and CSS, smash together components from frameworks, but I do not generally build anything from scratch because it’s too hard.

This short post discusses maturity of automation based on workflow meta-data and proposes that we start tagging workflows, or workflow south-bound interface (SBI) plugins with leaky requirements.