Tim Downey articles - 32 total
Easily Produce a Software Bill of Materials with Cloud Native Buildpacks
Cover Photo by Vadim Sherbakovon Unsplash It seems like every week we hear that there is a new...
Installing Folding at Home on a Raspberry Pi
tl;dr? Feel free to skip ahead to the installation guide below. Back when I was a kid I used to run...
Capturing Network Traffic from a Kubernetes Pod with Ephemeral Debug Containers
Running tcpdump against a Running Pod The other day I had a situation where I needed to de...
Public Routing to a Private Kubernetes Cluster
For personal projects and hacking around on Kubernetes, I'm a fan of inexpensive managed clusters (li...
How to Make Kubectl Exec Run a Command Against Multiple Pods
I was really surprised to discover the other day that kubectl does not support running the same comma...
How to Make Kubectl Jsonpath Output On Separate Lines
Getting kubectl to output jsonpath results on separate lines is something that I have to Google every...
The Great Raspberry Pi Cooling Bake-Off
Two years ago, I found myself alone over the Fourth of July and a bit bored. So, of course, I did the...
How are you keeping in touch with your team while working from home?
Photo by Daniel Cheung on Unsplash Over these past few months, COVID has turned many of us into r...
Creating a Simple Kubernetes Debug Pod that Runs Ubuntu
Originally posted as a note on my blog. Sharing this technique here in case someone may find it helpf...
Save Money and Skip the Kubernetes Load Balancer
LoadBalancer Services are super convenient. Just change the type of a NodePort service to LoadBalance...
How to use kbld to Rapidly Iterate on Kubernetes Deployed Apps
Obligatory shipping container cover image by Boba Jovanovic on Unsplash What is kbld? Whe...
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Web Monetization Sidecar Proxy [Grant For The Web Hackathon Submission]
What I built A simple proof-of-concept sidecar proxy1 that injects Web Monetization meta...
Leaving Breadcrumbs
Originally posted here on my blog. Whenever I say "my blog", that's the site I'm referring to! Th...
Desired State Versus Actual State in Kubernetes
Eventual Consistency in Kubernetes and the Real World™ It was once acceptable — and even expected...
2020 Goals
When it comes to goals and self-improvement, I have a nasty habit of being over-ambitious and over-co...
How to default null YAML values to empty strings when using ytt
An example of converting null YAML values to empty strings when using ytt for Kubernetes config templ...
Reflections on KubeCon 2019
A little over a week ago, I had the privilege of attending Kubecon in San Diego (thanks Pivotal!). It...
Simplify Kubernetes App Deployments With Cloud Native Buildpacks and kapp
In recent years the Kubernetes wave has taken the software world by storm. And for good reason. Kuber...
Completing Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science
I applied to Georgia Tech's Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) program back in Sept...
How and when do you decide to update your app's dependencies?
Cover Photo Credit: Francisco Jacquier on Unsplash Whether you have Ruby gems, npm packages, or JARs...
Emulating an OpenMP Parallel For-Loop in Go
Cover photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash In several of the labs for Georgia Tech's Intro to High Pe...
Finding Max Flow using the Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm and Matthew McConaughey
Prereqs Before reading further, make sure to watch the necessary prerequisite lecture...
New Raspberry Pi 4 Released! What will you build with it?
Raspberry Pi @raspberry_...
What is an effective way to annotate/caption images of graphs for screen readers?
Hello folks, I've been refining some of my class notes into blog posts like the following:...
Finding Minimum Spanning Trees with Kruskal's Algorithm
Cover Image by Daniel Loska on Unsplash I wrote this up to help solidify my own understanding of min...
Microsoft Edge Available for MacOS
Who will be switching? Any folks worried about a new Chromium-based browser monoculture? Check it ou...
An exploration of the Bellman-Ford shortest paths graph algorithm
Cover Photo by Thor Alvis on Unsplash You may be familiar with Dijkstra's algorithm for quickly find...
Explaining the "Corrupted Sentence" Dynamic Programming Problem
Cover Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash This was an ungraded practice problem for our CS6515 class....
Resources for Understanding Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT)
In the Graduate Algorithms course I'm currently taking we've been learning a lot about Fast Fourier T...
Solving the Knapsack Problem with Dynamic Programming
What is the Knapsack Problem? Consider a backpack (or "knapsack") that can hold up to a ce...