Looking for a new reverse proxy
Mar 23, 2022
The majority of container setups need a reverse proxy to redirect incoming requests to the appropriate container. I use Dotege, a template generator that listens to container events and creates a config, this gives me the flexibility to switch proxies easily and try new things.
I was using Haproxy, but hit some irritating issues after a few releases and had to keep patching it to continue working. One bug prevented me from pushing containers to my registry, and another caused issues with my site's background rendering. Both changes were caused some major changes to how they handled one thing or another, but there are no tests to make sure it works correctly. Given this, I thought it was time to evaluate a replacement.
CV
Feb 16, 2022
I recently decided to rewrite my CV, at the start of this process it was still written in LaTeX but based on a popular and easy to use LaTeX CV template, Awesome-CV, when I first switched to a LaTeX CV I floundered whilst trying to write my own from scratch and didn't have the inclination to lean LaTex so went with this popular template.
I've been using this for a number of years, and I've made some fairly substantial tweaks over time to change some layouts and update fonts to this and deviated from the upstream version considerable, but the more I hack away at it the harder it was to make Awesome-CV do what I wanted. Everytime I made some minor changes, some very annoying side effects would crop up, the LaTeX class for this is fairly complicated and quite hard to jump in and edit as you need to, it's mostly designed to be completely adjusted with variables in the document, so decided I should look at alternatives.
New Site
Feb 13, 2022
As I was redoing my CV it was repeatedly suggested that I blog about it, I really dislike the idea of blogging as I'm not convinced I'm capable of writing posts that don't drone off missing the interesting aspects, but my friends were quite insistent.
Only time will tell if I keep writing posts, but irrespective, the new site gives me the flexibility to make changes and add things to the site with substantially less hassle than the old site.