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  1. 13 Jul 2026 · shipping

    Shipping CNPG Migrator for RDS → CloudNativePG

    Open-sourced a Go + React control plane for dump/restore Jobs into CloudNativePG. Write-up is live on the blog; Helm chart on GHCR.

  2. 6 Apr 2026 · shipping

    Shipping CanISpot.ai

    Launched CanISpot.ai — a filter-first EC2 Spot shortlist (interruption + cost together). Free, no login. Still looking for the feedback that makes it a default tab when sizing workloads.

  3. 5 Jan 2026 · active

    AWS GenAI Professional in the bag

    Passed the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer — Professional exam. Notes and study path published as a field note.

  4. 23 Nov 2025 · shipping

    MiniRSS.ai in beta

    Shipped MiniRSS.ai — privacy-first RSS with SLM summaries (Granite4), zero tracking, EU-hosted. Self-hosted path remains open in rss-ai-reader.

  5. 23 Nov 2025 · shipping

    Privacy-first RSS + local SLMs

    rss-ai-reader is out: self-hosted feeds with Ollama summaries, no cloud inference path.

  6. 1 Oct 2025 · active

    Karpenter cost optimizer still climbing

    karpenter-optimizer crossed more adopters — NodePool recommendations with topology and disruption views. Next: tighter AWS Pricing API coverage.

  7. 1 Sept 2025 · thinking

    Questions on the wire

    Still following: GPU sharing economics (HAMi vs MIG) in multi-tenant clusters, and how far agentic SRE assistants should go before human escalation.