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🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must‑reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 📚 Articles Worth Your Time Open infrastructure is not free: A joint statement on sustainable stewardship The OpenSSF and partner registries warn that running public infrastructure (package registries, CDNs, etc.) is becoming untenable under a “free to use” expectation, calling for sustainable funding models. Document parsing using GPT‑4o API vs Claude Sonnet 3.5 API vs Invofox API (with code samples) A hands‑on comparison of parsing capabilities across three different LLM‑powered APIs, including code you can run yourself. All You Need Is SSH A no‑fluff exploration of how far plain SSH can take you: transfers, tunnels, streaming, and more, without extra services. Make Obsidian look & function like Apple Notes Help Obsidian mimic the simplicity and feel of Apple Notes. SRE in 100 Lessons Series of distilled, actionable lessons extracted from classic Google SRE principles tailored for everyday operations. 🛠️ New Tools & Announcements Readest An open‑source, cross‑platform ebook reader built with Tauri + Next.js, with features like syncing, parallel reading, and integrated translation support. VimMaster A fun, interactive browser game to boost your muscle memory for Vim commands through timed challenges. Translumo A real‑time screen text translator that combines multiple OCR engines and ranks results intelligently. KubeForge Visual tool for constructing Kubernetes manifests with built‑in validation, schema hints, and instant feedback. kubespec.dev A curated, explorative catalog of Kubernetes resource definitions and versions, complete with examples. Thanks for reading! ...

The Story A teammate reports: “Prod is spitting 500 errors every 3 minutes - what’s happening?” Instead of an explanation, they get nothing but a 👍 reaction. That’s it. Silence. Confusion follows. Is it acknowledgment? Agreement? Sarcasm? Pure joy? Nobody knows. And then comes the realization: we all do the same thing. Why? Because sometimes people flood chat with 40+ messages, and it’s easier to throw a like than to read it all. ...

TL;DR Make Caps Lock useful: macOS: Shifted → Caps toggles recent app; Caps Lock itself moves to double-Shift. Windows: PowerToys Keyboard Manager → map Caps Lock → Alt+Tab (shortcut) for one-tap app switching. 🎯 macOS: Shifted (keep Caps via double-Shift) Install and open Shifted. Set Action → Previous Application (acts like a quick Cmd+Tab). Ensure Caps Lock via double-Shift is enabled, so you still have real CAPS when needed. Windows: PowerToys → Caps Lock triggers Alt+Tab Goal: single press of Caps = Alt+Tab once (jump to previous app). ...

Overview Reloader is a lightweight Kubernetes controller from Stakater that automatically restarts pods when their mounted ConfigMaps or Secrets change. Normally, if you update a ConfigMap or Secret in Kubernetes, the pods consuming it don’t pick up the changes automatically. You either need to roll out the Deployment manually, or write your own automation. That’s where Reloader comes in 🚀 It watches for updates to ConfigMaps and Secrets, and then triggers a rolling restart of Deployments, StatefulSets, or DaemonSets that reference them. ...

🚀 Welcome to this week’s Friday Readings! A quick collection of must-reads, tool announcements, and tech highlights that caught my eye recently. 📚 Articles Worth Your Time Too many threats, too much data: new survey. Here’s how to fix that | Google Cloud Blog Self-Host Your Own Automation Platform with n8n + Docker | Techno Tim 🛠️ New Tools & Announcements runmedev/runme: DevOps Notebooks Built with Markdown Discover and run code snippets directly from your markdown files, e.g. runbooks, docs, or READMEs. Read the docs. ...