After a bit of a hiatus, DevOps'ish is back! I'm restarting the newsletter to get back into speaking, networking, and keeping myself visible in the industry.

The timing? Well, I got laid off last Friday (see my LinkedIn post and amplify it if you don't mind). Back on the job market \= the perfect time to restart.

What's different? One word: simplicity. Everything lives on Buttondown now—no more dual posting to a website and a newsletter/email platform. I'll write in Markdown while keeping the format free-flowing and less structured.

The content? Same approach: I'll share what I'm reading, with social media interaction guiding what makes the cut. One big change is that I now have better metric aggregation, which greatly streamlines things.

On AI: Yes, I'm using it for tasks here and there (for example, Claude helped me make this intro shorter). But here's the deal—I'm not copy/pasting AI output to y'all (chances are you deal with that too much already). As a friend reminded me this week, DevOps'ish has my voice, and that's what made it popular in the first place. That's not changing.

Welcome back, my friends!

Reminders

• Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know (James Strong's KubeCon Talk)
• Kubernetes Dashboard is no longer maintained; Headlamp is the replacement (I ❤️ Headlamp)

The Future of Cloud Native Rejekts — New decentralized governance model with a Steering Committee and local volunteer teams; thank you to everyone making this happen.

Apple Picks Google's Gemini to Power AI Siri Coming This Year — Apple announces multiyear deal with Google to use a custom 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model for next-gen Siri, reportedly paying $1 billion annually

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From AI — Barry Schwartz — Adam Wathan lays off 75% of the Tailwind team as AI search systems tank documentation traffic by 40%, causing an 80% revenue decline (which is wild enough by itself)

Governments Around the World Are Considering Bans on Grok's App Over AI Sexual Image Scandal — Indonesia and Malaysia ban Grok while UK, France, India, and Brazil investigate after the chatbot's "spicy mode" enables nonconsensual deepfakes

Google Founders Eye California Exit as State Weighs Wealth Tax — Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, moving business entities out of California ahead of proposed 5% wealth tax ballot measure that could cost them $60 billion each (also, if $60 billion is just 5%, they can afford it)

Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding — Michael Larabel — Torvalds releases AudioNoise, a GPLv2 audio effects project, notably using AI "vibe coding" to build the Python visualizer

Rue — A research programming language exploring whether memory safety without garbage collection can be easier to learn than Rust, with implementation largely by Claude AI

I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That's Fine) — Thomas Letan — Migrating to Fedora CoreOS with Podman Quadlets for immutable infrastructure where deployments happen via container registry updates, eliminating SSH access

How I Use Jujutsu — Abhinav Sarkar — Three months in with JJ as a primary VCS, covering procedures absent of staging areas, freely rearranging changes, and spending less time wrestling with Git (site was down when I was writing. Pardon the archive.org link)

DevOps Q&A: AI Workflows, Kubernetes Cost Optimization, and MCP Servers — YouTube Live — Viktor and Scott discuss AI prompt engineering, Kubernetes alerting and cost optimization with Karpenter, when to use Crossplane over custom operators, and practical context management for AI coding assistants.

karol-broda/snitch — MIT — A friendlier CLI alternative to ss/netstat with a clean TUI, styled tables, and the ability to filter, inspect, and terminate network connections

huseyinbabal/taws — MIT — Rust-based terminal UI supporting 30+ AWS services with keyboard navigation, multi-profile/region support, and direct actions