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What I'm focused on at the moment. This is a now page, so it goes stale on purpose between updates.

last updated August 2026

# Running the lab

Keeping the 9-node Talos Kubernetes cluster healthy under GitOps, and slowly retiring the last of the homegrown glue in favor of boring, standard tooling. Recent work: controlled image updates through Renovate so every version bump is a reviewable, revertible change.

# Writing it down

Turning the interesting failures and design calls into posts here. The queue includes a hardware deep-dive follow-up and a couple of outage post-mortems I've been meaning to write properly.

# Open source

Maintaining dnsweaver: keeping DNS records following the infrastructure instead of drifting. Small, focused, well-tested Go.

# Sharpening the craft

Getting better at directing AI agents without letting the quality bar slip. The judgment stays mine; the typing is just faster.

More about the professional side over on maxfieldallison.com.