Martin Proffitt

Definitely not sycamore gap

Came to prepare my office for the day, found this

Took kahlűa to cool off in the waterfalls. Found a horse

This morning just before sunrise

It's raining. Kahlűa was never allowed to lie outside in the rain at the beach. Something tells me she loves her new home

It's a little foggy this morning

New house

FluxCD vs. ArgoCD: The Final Word A definitive look at FluxCD's controller-first design and why its architectural alignment with Kubernetes offers superior security, efficiency, and operational maturity over ArgoCD.

Today, we published @rawkode.dev's first editorial!

ArgoCD's UI is great, but Flux's architecture is inevitable.

AI is a powerful tool but it is just that. A tool. It is not a replacement for real life and it's certainly not a replacement for your brain

AI has so much promise but this is the reality. It's being used to shorten your attention span even further than it already was. It's being used to stifle critical thinking.

When coupled with the algorithms of social media, it is flat out dangerous

They are designed to be addictive, to suck you in to the endless doom scroll cycle

They are mindless garbage. Infinite variations on around 10 storylines, all disguised as having originated as reddit posts

By hour 5, all I was being served was AI slop even though I was initially deliberately skipping those videos

I ran an experiment on YouTube.

I deleted my entire history, subscriptions and liked videos then just started watching shorts to see how long it took.

I got my first AI slop video served after approx 3h of watch time.

Delighted to welcome you as one of our speakers, Xavier! We're looking forward to your talk! 🚀

Join us: cnsmunich.ticketbutler.io/en/e/cnsmuni...

#opensource #CloudNative #kubernetes #cnsmunich

Even a highly skilled pilot with thousands of hours on type can suffer from confirmation bias when stress runs high.

This is a solution sought by an engineer to solve a problem said engineer is facing - bias is already in the mix even for the most highly skilled.

Peer review is essential.

A few years ago I wrote 3 (very) short stories that were kinda loosely linked together.

In two of them I killed characters.

At the weekend I read something real but relevant so went back to those stories.

I've now written 6 stories and 4 are dead.

All very deliberate accidents.

Oops.

A couple of days ago I wrote an essay response to Uwe Friedrichsens excellence blog series on his "Thoughts on AI and software development."

This is that essay.

No squirrels were harmed in its writing.

choclab.net/2025/06/19/s...

I finally bit the bullet and decided it was high time I tried once again to maintain a blog.

I can absolutely 100% pinky promise that this will not last more than 3 posts before I forget where I parked the domain - I'm simply not that organised

but until then - you can find it here choclab.net

Oh hey look!

Want to come take over my job?

Want to work with some increadible people?

This job is 🔥hot🔥

Happy to chat about it if anyone wants.

My first experience with voice recognition was this parrot called prody from creative labs that flew around the screen and "reacted" to voice.

Years later came Siri, Google assist and even Bixby

None of them could understand a full blown Lancashire accent

WTF makes you think your AI can?

CloudNative.Now - May 2025 Welcome to the May edition of CloudNative.Now - a monthly newsletter that covers all that has been happening in the cloud native world

This months newsletter is now out! 🎉

✨ May 2025 ✨

https://cloudnative.now/2025-may/

An image of my tmux and kube config session manager

A fun little project I've been working on for the last few weeks

bmx is a bubblemix driven Tmux session and Kubeconfig context manager written in go

When dealing with lots of clusters every day it's easy to get lost where you are. I wrote this to help me maintain my sanity
github.com/mproffitt/bmx

So much in this months edition! 🤯

Announcing Flux 2.5 GA We are thrilled to announce the release of Flux v2.5.0! Here you will find highlights of new features and improvements in this release.

Flux v2.5 is out 🎉 This release is jam-packed with new features!

We have integrated CEL to enable custom health checks, added support for GitHub App auth, ephemeral environment for Pull Requests & Merge Request and so much more.

#fluxcd #gitops #kubernetes

fluxcd.io/blog/2025/02...

GitHub - mproffitt/kubeconfig-operator: Experimental Experimental. Contribute to mproffitt/kubeconfig-operator development by creating an account on GitHub.

Highly experimental operator/controller for running local clusters (kind, etc) in the hub-spoke model.

A weekends fun with kubebuilder, kind, Linux and IPTables github.com/mproffitt/ku...

I'm now curious if I can get the GPU shared to an EKS cluster running inside @localstack.cloud running inside a kind cluster ...

Maybe a puzzle for next week.

kind + CAPI vclusters + GPU kind + CAPI vclusters + GPU. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Something to do on Sunday.

Sharing the GPU with a vCluster running inside a kind cluster.
This turned out to be easier than I expected.

gist.github.com/mproffitt/a8...