Daily Digest — May 28, 2026
Today we published 5 new articles and 24 updates to existing posts. Key topics include the major data breach at Charter Communications, Snowflake's acquisition of Natoma for Agentic Enterprise, critic
Deep dives, how-tos, and thoughts on infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps.
Today we published 15 new articles and 5 updates to existing posts. Key topics include the Google Pixel 11 and its new 'Pixel Glow' feature, NVIDIA's Vera Rubin platform for Agentic AI Factories, and
Today we published 5 new articles and 24 updates to existing posts. Key topics include the major data breach at Charter Communications, Snowflake's acquisition of Natoma for Agentic Enterprise, critic
Why this site exists and what will appear here over time.
In this article I introduce Rancher Desktop and share my experiences with installation, usage, and whether Rancher Desktop is a viable alternative to Docker Desktop.
Docker CE directly in WSL2 as an alternative to Docker Desktop. Installation, configuration, and my experiences.
Podman as an alternative to Docker Desktop on Windows. Installation, configuration, and my experiences.
Docker Desktop is no longer free for many companies due to a pricing change. Here I present alternative solutions.
popel now exists in version 4 - analogous to Ghost v4 - here's a quick overview of the features and changes.
In this article I show how to automate school sick day notifications with Power Automate - with a single click in the mobile app.
With Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), recurring sick leave notifications for school can be automated with a single click.
The "New World" series finds its technical beginning here. In this article I will operate Strapi as a Docker container/stack - including configuration and commissioning.
My plans for my future changes: Ghost and WordPress will be replaced by Strapi and GatsbyJS. A foreword to the new series.
In this article I show how to create a Word document based on a template using the Office Graph API and set metadata of a SharePoint ListItem.
Using the Microsoft Graph API to create a Word document based on a template and set metadata via the SharePoint API.
In this article I show how to manipulate the visibility of fields in SharePoint forms simply via PnP PowerShell - without complex CSOM.
Running Strapi as a Headless CMS in a Docker container. Installation, configuration, and first steps.
My plans for switching to JAMStack: Strapi as a Headless CMS and Gatsby as a Static Site Generator – with Azure DevOps for automated deployment.
What can happen when a Rancher Longhorn engine update takes place? What should you watch out for? That's what this short post is about.
In this article I present my approach for upgrading from Rancher V2.2.x to V2.3 – including backup, master upgrade, and cluster node update.
Using PnP PowerShell with SetShowInDisplayForm, SetShowInNewForm, and SetShowInEditForm to show and hide fields in SharePoint forms.
In this post I describe the installation and commissioning of Ghost in a Rancher Kubernetes cluster – both via Helm and via standard deployment with SQLite.
In this article I show how to deploy a Cert-Manager via Helm in Rancher 2.x and automatically request Let's Encrypt certificates for Ingress resources.