• Yesterday evening I finished making the replacement kitchen drawer face for the one I inadvertently lost once upon a time. It had basically fallen off the drawer and I put it somewhere “safe” - but it mysteriously vanished forever. So, I made a new one out of plywood, screwed it back on, attached a nice handle, and now I have a fully functioning kitchen drawer again. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough for government work.

• Before work started this morning, I cleared out a vast amount of old tea that’s been taking up space in my kitchen for far too long. I’d bought it all in a frenzy when T2 tea left the UK, but it turns out I can’t drink that much tea before it all started to expire. Should dry tea leave really expire? Weird. Anyway, I’ve got more space in the kitchen now.

• In my home lab, for the first time ever, I finally got around to adding proper authentication to a web page via OpenID via my Keycloak server, which regular readers will know runs on my Raspberry Pi 5 Kubernetes cluster. And it only took about 5 minutes! So easy!

• At work, I finally managed to get one of their apps running on Graviton based EKS nodes in AWS. In the long run, this should save them a lot of money.

• And just after finishing work this evening, I additionally protected all my lab microservce’s endpoints with Keycloak too. Aside from the ones that needed to remain public like /status and /health of course. This is a big win for me, as it means I can now use Keycloak to fully manage access to all my lab microservices, which is something I’ve wanted to understand for a while.

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Chris