Kevin N.
noel-kevin.be
Kevin N.
@noel-kevin.be
Dev, K8s, Infra, SRE, Golang, ex-Java
@[email protected]
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Encore un duel très disputé !
Si ça vous dit de discuter de Frieren ou Hazbin Hotel sur le forum, c'est par ici :

www.forum-elbakin.net/viewtopic.ph...

forum-elbakin.net/viewtopic.ph...
Pas de répit le samedi dans le Tournoi 2025 ! ⚔️

👉 www.elbakin.net/vote/185
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Cloudflare down worldwild including API and most apps and Cloudflare hosted sites returning HTTP/500 status. Even their own status site is broken right now.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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“Go’s Sweet 16” by Austin Clements, for the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/16years

#golang
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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‼️Helm v4.0.0 is now officially live! github.com/helm/helm/re... ‼️

New updates include:

🎉 plugin system that supports WASM based plugins

🎉 Server side apply support

🎉 & LOTS more

Go check it out! & if you’re around at #KubeCon, come chat about it at the Helm booth!
Release Helm v4.0.0 · helm/helm
The Helm Team is proud to announce the first stable release of Helm 4. New Features Helm 4 has numerous new features, but a few deserve highlighting here: Redesigned plugin system that supports We...
github.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Side projects, blog, podcasting is hard with 2 small kids, but I eventually managed to find time for a blog! (PS: I had to switch to 5am routine 🙈)

Wrote some words about #lazygit OSS tool and what we can learn from its UX. Enjoy! 🤗

bwplotka.dev/2025/lazygit/
The (lazy) Git UI You Didn't Know You Need
When my son was born last April, I had ambitious learning plans for the upcoming 5w paternity leave. As you can imagine, with two kids, life quickly verified this plan 🙃. I did eventually start some p...
bwplotka.dev
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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SARCASM : un robot railleur qui résout les Rubik’s Cube
SARCASM est un formidable projet complètement documenté qui nous montre comment résoudre un Rubik's Cube avec un robot..
buff.ly/qOrEOmA #diy
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎊 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released!

📡 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/tVVHm9gnwl8/m/-oTvYIjCAQAJ

🗃 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.4

#golang
November 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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I don't post so often, these days, but this made my day.

Versioned rollback is finally a thing in k8s.

cloud.google.com/blog/product...
Kubernetes gets minor version rollback | Google Cloud Blog
In the event of an error when upgrading a Kubernetes cluster, a new minor version rollback feature lets you revert to a known-good state.
cloud.google.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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📣 OTel Unplugged is headed to Brussels in February 2026!

A full day of in-person conversation and collaboration! Unconference sessions only—no organized talks. We’ll shape the next chapter of the #OpenTelemetry roadmap. Details on registration and sponsorship in our latest blog.

buff.ly/vC9kqtZ
OTel Unplugged EU at FOSDEM 2026
OpenTelemetry is coming to FOSDEM! When we put out our community survey, you requested more meetups and we have heard you! We’re happy to announce that we are bringing back OTel Unplugged, the…
opentelemetry.io
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Rendez-vous lundi midi pour le premier duel de notre édition 2025 ! ⚔️ #VendrediLecture
Le Tournoi 2025 débute lundi 6 octobre !
Découvrez tous les matches du premier tour... On vous en parle depuis quelque temps dans la foulée de notre 25eme anniversaire... Le Tournoi prépare donc son gr...
www.elbakin.net
October 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Spent a couple evenings reverse engineering how Gerrit auth works, concluded it's OAuth2, started building a proxy to replace the long-lived ~/.gitcookies file...

Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.
GitHub - hickford/git-credential-oauth: A Git credential helper that securely authenticates to GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket using OAuth.
A Git credential helper that securely authenticates to GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket using OAuth. - hickford/git-credential-oauth
github.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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“Flight Recorder in Go 1.25” by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek — https://go.dev/blog/flight-recorder

#golang
September 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I recently spoke at GopherCon UK 2025 about the hidden power of #Go’s `-toolexec` flag. How it can turn every `go build` into a programmable pipeline for things like error-handling enforcement and observability hooks. Here’s the recording:
Unleashing the Go Toolchain - Kemal Akkoyun
The -toolexec flag hides a super-power in the Go toolchain: it lets you turn every go build into a programmable pipeline. In this session we’ll reveal how a simple wrapper command can inject custom…
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.

This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...

Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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And then some of us grumble when we have to explain the value of observability over and over again... 😬
From the git community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the git community
www.reddit.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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not wrong (and I'm sure still true)
September 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Nous fêtons donc nos 25 ans (!) avec une toute nouvelle version du site ! :) Qui a dit "enfin" ? ;)
Découvrez la nouvelle version d'Elbakin.net !
Non, vous ne rêvez pas, vous êtes bien en train de naviguer sur la V5 d'Elbakin.net ! Vous avez connu Elbakin.net en bleu il y a très longtemps, puis en blanc p...
www.elbakin.net
September 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Whoever did #golang "modernize" - thank you!

pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x...
modernize package - golang.org/x/tools/gopls/internal/analysis/modernize - Go Packages
pkg.go.dev
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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clickhouse.com/blog/llm-obs...

Nice writeup on LLMs and incident resolutions.
Can LLMs replace on call SREs today?
We often hear that LLMs will soon replace SREs. We wanted to test that claim, so we ran an experiment. Read the blog to see what we found.
clickhouse.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🎊 Go 1.25.0 is released!

📝 Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.25

⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.0

#golang
August 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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I edited my Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures research into a stand-alone article, including recommendations reusable by other projects.

tl;dr: no need for tokens or keys, modern browsers tell you if a request is cross-origin!

words.filippo.io/csrf
Cross-Site Request Forgery
Cross-Site Request Forgery countermeasures can be greatly simplified using request metadata provided by modern browsers.
words.filippo.io
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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A new term for SRE just dropped.

Or really…a lot of my life even outside tech.
I have a term for this:

Irritated vindication- situation where you are right or know you were going to be right about something, tried your best to tell people, and were ignored. When the thing happens, you are less happy about being right and more irritated that it had to come to that moment.
August 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM