Tim Hockin
@thock.in
I like writing software, even if I don't get to do it much anymore. Kubernetes. Star Wars nerd, Expanse fan, dad, dork.
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Tim Hockin
@thock.in
· Nov 6
I wrote a little bit about how to do deployment updates without serving errors in #Kubernetes.
Since I don't have a blog, I'll just skeet (Note: was posted elsewhere Aug'22)
You have some pods, and maybe an load-balancer, too. You want to update the deployment. How to do this "best" in K8s today?
Since I don't have a blog, I'll just skeet (Note: was posted elsewhere Aug'22)
You have some pods, and maybe an load-balancer, too. You want to update the deployment. How to do this "best" in K8s today?
Believe it or not, I still have some special Kubernetes stickers left from KubeCon's past. If you see me around, say hello and ask for a sticker!
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Believe it or not, I still have some special Kubernetes stickers left from KubeCon's past. If you see me around, say hello and ask for a sticker!
For the moment my flight is alive and on-time. See you all soon!
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
For the moment my flight is alive and on-time. See you all soon!
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...
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
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...
Versioned rollback is finally a thing in k8s.
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
Anyone else worried about the air traffic control situation, what with KubeCon just around the corner?
October 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Anyone else worried about the air traffic control situation, what with KubeCon just around the corner?
Home maintenance is not for the weak of spirit. Or of wallet.
JFC, this project never ends. It's one thing after another. We should have just moved.
JFC, this project never ends. It's one thing after another. We should have just moved.
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Home maintenance is not for the weak of spirit. Or of wallet.
JFC, this project never ends. It's one thing after another. We should have just moved.
JFC, this project never ends. It's one thing after another. We should have just moved.
It's 2025. If your project's "how to install" document tells me "curl <url> | sh", you are dead to me.
September 16, 2025 at 11:37 PM
It's 2025. If your project's "how to install" document tells me "curl <url> | sh", you are dead to me.
When you find an interesting product online but it's just a little too expensive to YOLO, so you scour the web for reviews or comparisons or just the technical spec and find NOTHING...do you really want to buy that product?
The "locate a dealer" vibe is off-putting. I guess this one is not for me.
The "locate a dealer" vibe is off-putting. I guess this one is not for me.
September 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
When you find an interesting product online but it's just a little too expensive to YOLO, so you scour the web for reviews or comparisons or just the technical spec and find NOTHING...do you really want to buy that product?
The "locate a dealer" vibe is off-putting. I guess this one is not for me.
The "locate a dealer" vibe is off-putting. I guess this one is not for me.
I can't tell you how much fun I am having, making Gemini and/or ChatGPT edit a picture of my house to change the color. We need to re-paint, and this is so much better than collecting paint cards from Home Depot.
August 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I can't tell you how much fun I am having, making Gemini and/or ChatGPT edit a picture of my house to change the color. We need to re-paint, and this is so much better than collecting paint cards from Home Depot.
Heard on a rock radio station today IN CALIFORNIA: a disgusting DHS commercial, full of heinous fear-mongering and of passionate kissing of Trump's ass.
Uggh.
Uggh.
July 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Heard on a rock radio station today IN CALIFORNIA: a disgusting DHS commercial, full of heinous fear-mongering and of passionate kissing of Trump's ass.
Uggh.
Uggh.
YES YES YES!!
Ok, to temper my enthusiasm -- did anyone thing "History of the World Part 2" was good? Brooks can often be hilarious but sometimes his humor comes across like an 11 year old boy.
Still, benefit of the doubt.
Ok, to temper my enthusiasm -- did anyone thing "History of the World Part 2" was good? Brooks can often be hilarious but sometimes his humor comes across like an 11 year old boy.
Still, benefit of the doubt.
June 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
YES YES YES!!
Ok, to temper my enthusiasm -- did anyone thing "History of the World Part 2" was good? Brooks can often be hilarious but sometimes his humor comes across like an 11 year old boy.
Still, benefit of the doubt.
Ok, to temper my enthusiasm -- did anyone thing "History of the World Part 2" was good? Brooks can often be hilarious but sometimes his humor comes across like an 11 year old boy.
Still, benefit of the doubt.
OMG TAKE MY MONEY.
Will Rick Moranis to come back?
Will Rick Moranis to come back?
OMGGGGGGGGGGGG
I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
OMG TAKE MY MONEY.
Will Rick Moranis to come back?
Will Rick Moranis to come back?
God damn, you know what AI service I would pay for? Product search.
Find me options for a thingamajig between 26 and 30 inches wide, in stainless steel or black, that includes a power switch but not an LED screen, and costs less than $400. Summarize the differences between them.
TAKE MY MONEY
Find me options for a thingamajig between 26 and 30 inches wide, in stainless steel or black, that includes a power switch but not an LED screen, and costs less than $400. Summarize the differences between them.
TAKE MY MONEY
June 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
God damn, you know what AI service I would pay for? Product search.
Find me options for a thingamajig between 26 and 30 inches wide, in stainless steel or black, that includes a power switch but not an LED screen, and costs less than $400. Summarize the differences between them.
TAKE MY MONEY
Find me options for a thingamajig between 26 and 30 inches wide, in stainless steel or black, that includes a power switch but not an LED screen, and costs less than $400. Summarize the differences between them.
TAKE MY MONEY
Andor is the Star Wars I have wanted ever since Episode I broke my heart nearly 30 years ago.
May 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Andor is the Star Wars I have wanted ever since Episode I broke my heart nearly 30 years ago.
My favorite little-known new feature in kubernetes v1.33:
Show me pods with a container running as root.
kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.containerStatuses[].user.linux.uid == 0) .metadata.name'
Show me pods with a container running as root.
kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.containerStatuses[].user.linux.uid == 0) .metadata.name'
May 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My favorite little-known new feature in kubernetes v1.33:
Show me pods with a container running as root.
kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.containerStatuses[].user.linux.uid == 0) .metadata.name'
Show me pods with a container running as root.
kubectl get pods -A -o json | jq -r '.items[] | select(.status.containerStatuses[].user.linux.uid == 0) .metadata.name'
How did people forget how to do email? Or did they never know?
Quoting text and responding inline seems to confuse the hell out of folks. Some feel the need to put their name before each response or change the color of their responses. Some just screw it up so badly it's not readable.
Good grief!
Quoting text and responding inline seems to confuse the hell out of folks. Some feel the need to put their name before each response or change the color of their responses. Some just screw it up so badly it's not readable.
Good grief!
May 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
How did people forget how to do email? Or did they never know?
Quoting text and responding inline seems to confuse the hell out of folks. Some feel the need to put their name before each response or change the color of their responses. Some just screw it up so badly it's not readable.
Good grief!
Quoting text and responding inline seems to confuse the hell out of folks. Some feel the need to put their name before each response or change the color of their responses. Some just screw it up so badly it's not readable.
Good grief!
Forced to use Wayland, and OMG everything is broken. Want to remap mouse buttons? Fuck you. Liked those consistent window decorations? FUCK YOU.
Jesus christ, the more I use it the less I want to .
Jesus christ, the more I use it the less I want to .
April 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Forced to use Wayland, and OMG everything is broken. Want to remap mouse buttons? Fuck you. Liked those consistent window decorations? FUCK YOU.
Jesus christ, the more I use it the less I want to .
Jesus christ, the more I use it the less I want to .
Reposted by Tim Hockin
The community, formed by individuals and engineers across various organizations, is constantly under the hood, fine-tuning its core components.
An Ode to the Unsung Heroes of Kubernetes
The community, formed by individuals and engineers across various organizations, is constantly under the hood, fine-tuning its core components.
thenewstack.io
March 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The community, formed by individuals and engineers across various organizations, is constantly under the hood, fine-tuning its core components.
Reposted by Tim Hockin
On Thursday Kubecon Family Fortune (not Feud!) with me and @thock.in is back! With 8 amazing members of our contributor community vying for the ultimate prize of Kubecon Family Fortune Champion (definitely worth putting on a CV) kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txCe/...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim H...
View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
kccnceu2025.sched.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On Thursday Kubecon Family Fortune (not Feud!) with me and @thock.in is back! With 8 amazing members of our contributor community vying for the ultimate prize of Kubecon Family Fortune Champion (definitely worth putting on a CV) kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txCe/...
I am looking forward to episode 2 of my favorite game!
On Thursday Kubecon Family Fortune (not Feud!) with me and @thock.in is back! With 8 amazing members of our contributor community vying for the ultimate prize of Kubecon Family Fortune Champion (definitely worth putting on a CV) kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1txCe/...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: KubeCon FamilyFortune, Episode 2 - Tim H...
View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
kccnceu2025.sched.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I am looking forward to episode 2 of my favorite game!
I have been in the queue for chat support with a particular software vendor for over 6 hours.
I started at #32 and now #8. I think I am doing it out of spite at this point.
I am pretty sure there's one poor soul answering every single chat support all day, by themselves.
I started at #32 and now #8. I think I am doing it out of spite at this point.
I am pretty sure there's one poor soul answering every single chat support all day, by themselves.
March 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I have been in the queue for chat support with a particular software vendor for over 6 hours.
I started at #32 and now #8. I think I am doing it out of spite at this point.
I am pretty sure there's one poor soul answering every single chat support all day, by themselves.
I started at #32 and now #8. I think I am doing it out of spite at this point.
I am pretty sure there's one poor soul answering every single chat support all day, by themselves.
Hacking on a side-quest, I wrote (with help from cursor AI!) a little io.Reader implementation that I thought was pretty clever. And then it turned out I didn't need it.
:(
I'll just save it in the folder of random things I might need one day. I should make a junk-drawer git repo.
:(
I'll just save it in the folder of random things I might need one day. I should make a junk-drawer git repo.
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Hacking on a side-quest, I wrote (with help from cursor AI!) a little io.Reader implementation that I thought was pretty clever. And then it turned out I didn't need it.
:(
I'll just save it in the folder of random things I might need one day. I should make a junk-drawer git repo.
:(
I'll just save it in the folder of random things I might need one day. I should make a junk-drawer git repo.
I think we all know that YAML defines all of these as boolean false:
no, No, NO, false, False, FALSE
But did you know that these are all integers in YAML:
42, 42_, _42, _4_2_, __________4__________2__________
... and they all mean the same thing?
no, No, NO, false, False, FALSE
But did you know that these are all integers in YAML:
42, 42_, _42, _4_2_, __________4__________2__________
... and they all mean the same thing?
February 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I think we all know that YAML defines all of these as boolean false:
no, No, NO, false, False, FALSE
But did you know that these are all integers in YAML:
42, 42_, _42, _4_2_, __________4__________2__________
... and they all mean the same thing?
no, No, NO, false, False, FALSE
But did you know that these are all integers in YAML:
42, 42_, _42, _4_2_, __________4__________2__________
... and they all mean the same thing?
Time for my tri-annual "complain about github" post.
HOLY CRAP does it get slow. Typing comments into a particular PR, I have to wait 10 seconds for the textbox to catch up. Chrome says 100% CPU for that tab. Meanwhile I am posting this.
Anyone at GitHub wants to shoulder-surf, drop me a note!
HOLY CRAP does it get slow. Typing comments into a particular PR, I have to wait 10 seconds for the textbox to catch up. Chrome says 100% CPU for that tab. Meanwhile I am posting this.
Anyone at GitHub wants to shoulder-surf, drop me a note!
January 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Time for my tri-annual "complain about github" post.
HOLY CRAP does it get slow. Typing comments into a particular PR, I have to wait 10 seconds for the textbox to catch up. Chrome says 100% CPU for that tab. Meanwhile I am posting this.
Anyone at GitHub wants to shoulder-surf, drop me a note!
HOLY CRAP does it get slow. Typing comments into a particular PR, I have to wait 10 seconds for the textbox to catch up. Chrome says 100% CPU for that tab. Meanwhile I am posting this.
Anyone at GitHub wants to shoulder-surf, drop me a note!
Apparently `type Foo []Foo` is a thing you can do in Go. Useless but neat.
January 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Apparently `type Foo []Foo` is a thing you can do in Go. Useless but neat.
Hear me out: toum as a finishing butter for steak.
A+ in my book.
A+ in my book.
January 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hear me out: toum as a finishing butter for steak.
A+ in my book.
A+ in my book.