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Mike

@smi.gs.bsky.social

Former full time bassist. Currently an SRE and building open source software. Follow my process @ https://smig.tech — Stacks: k8s, AWS, Linux, JS, Python, Go

55 Followers  |  77 Following  |  201 Posts  |  Joined: 18.01.2024  |  1.9835

Latest posts by smi.gs on Bluesky

I like bun.js, but always end up hitting a bug when I try to use it. Going back to vite for now.

10.08.2025 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looks similar to Intel One Mono.

27.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Learned a lot lately about how teams approach trust in infrastructure.

Sometimes the instinct is to build from scratch — even when battle-tested, scalable solutions exist.

I’m looking to join a team that trusts modern tools and debates with curiosity, not fear.

25.07.2025 02:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

yesterday, this artist gave me flowers. Playing music full time seems like such a life time ago. Wild that I’ve been back in tech for 4+ years now.

I do miss the stage a lot. Traveling. Playing music with friends. It was good times.

16.07.2025 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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May have reached peak vibe coding

13.07.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here I am, using React Native + Claude Code to create an app

12.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What makes up the 75 guitar hard?

02.07.2025 03:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Whew, I'm exhausted

26.06.2025 20:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@kelseyhightower.com had Zapp going IYKYK

26.06.2025 14:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#PlatformCon2025

When I give my first tech talk, I’m def going to bring my bass guitar

26.06.2025 14:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Kelsey speaking at PlatformCon25

Kelsey speaking at PlatformCon25

Man, one thing for sure @kelseyhightower.com can story tell and tech.

Mentor from a distance

26.06.2025 14:26 — 👍 24    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
playing with blocks

playing with blocks

Blocks with the kiddo

21.06.2025 12:13 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Bag of sango coffee. Heaven

Bag of sango coffee. Heaven

Man, this coffee from Amsterdam was amazing and they need to ship to the US

13.06.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🔥🔥🔥

13.06.2025 11:19 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

export MANPAGER=“nvim +Man!”

13.06.2025 00:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The MANPAGER is an env variable to specifically override the PAGER setting when displaying man pages. Default is usually less

12.06.2025 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Been reading man pages for years.

Today, I switched to using NeoVim as my MANPAGER.

The syntax highlighting alone made a huge difference.

Especially when reading on screens.

Honestly, I wish I'd done this sooner.

What's your MANPAGER setup?

12.06.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

what happens when the SRE is unreliable?

11.06.2025 17:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Using Claude Code to vibe doc. lol everything will have a README.md

10.06.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apple is cooked

09.06.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is so good 😂😂😂😂

09.06.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

💯💯💯💯

09.06.2025 17:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Writing some code without an LLM today 🫨

07.06.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a few of the common ones are immich, nextcloud, homer, it-tools,...

How about you?

07.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Terminal window showing the output of kubectl commands

Terminal window showing the output of kubectl commands

Thanks man. I use it to self host a few things and for learning/labbing.

How about you?

07.06.2025 11:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s a great value Mac Studio, better known as a beelink mini pc lol

Top left beelink and a NUC,

next row is an orange pi 5 k8s cluster

the bottom row is a Synology, raspberry pi’s (3 control plane nodes for the OPI5) overkill, but I needed at the time to test HA stuff.

07.06.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Server rack and some RGB lights

Server rack and some RGB lights

Niiice! Here’s my overkill lab lol

One day I’ll get a better rack/cab setup. This one has limited options.

07.06.2025 10:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Leading a team is not easy lol

05.06.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I randomly got food poisoning yesterday. Omg. Don’t wish that on anyone.

01.06.2025 12:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wild how much she’s grown in a year.

01.06.2025 12:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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