• Fixing Longhorn CrashLoopBackOff on k3s: An nftables Cross-Node Networking Nightmare

    When adding a new agent node to a k3s cluster, everything looked fine on the surface; the node joined, pods were scheduled, and local workloads ran. But Longhorn's manager pods started CrashLoopBackOff-ing with increasingly cryptic errors. What followed was a multi-layered debugging session that uncovered a fundamental networking issue hiding behind misleading error messages.
  • Better Late Than Never: My Goals for 2026

    Posting my 2026 resolutions six weeks late. Treks, books, a half marathon, and a lot of gym sessions.
  • To Australia Camp and back again; Or how to endure the gravity of giants

    To leave Kathmandu is to shed the city's chaotic gravity for the silent promise of the Annapurnas. We climbed to Australian Camp not to conquer the mountain, but to celebrate a milestone: my twins turning six and to my embarking on a new sabbatical. While I bargained with the jealous god of gravity on the stone steps, they bounded up as sparks of kinetic joy; a reminder that watching your children grow against a backdrop of eternal snow is to feel the devastating speed of time.
  • Stop and Breathe: Why I Prioritised Health Over Career

    No more OKRs, just elevation gains. I've pressed pause on my career to trek Pikey Peak, Everest Base Camp, and finally use the amazing backyard I've neglected.
  • George Orwell - the Nostradamus of his time

    Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
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