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            <title><![CDATA[Lonika Mideva (1946-2026)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I will never forget how to eat. Thank you for your support and memories, forever in my heart.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why is ipv6 stalling?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[IPv6 has been the future for a very long time. The problem is not that it is hard to explain. The problem is that IPv4, NAT, and workarounds are still good enough for most people to avoid the migration pain.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Should I create a k9s style TUI for NATS?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I use k9s heavily, so building something similar for NATS keeps sounding like a good idea. I am not convinced yet, but JetStream is the part that makes me pause.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blocking IMDS access on Karpenter NodePools]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Every EC2 instance exposes the Instance Metadata Service at 169.254.169.254. By default, pods can reach it. They should not and if they need AWS credentials, Pod Identity is the right tool for that.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[k8s Jobs, Helper Containers, and Native Sidecars]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[k8s won't mark a Job complete while any container in the Pod is still running. If you have a logging sidecar that never exits on its own, you need a way to tell k8s it's a helper, not the work itself. That's what native sidecars are for.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Image Compression Efficiency, and Why AVIF Wins]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[JPEG has been the default image format on the web since 1992. AVIF, derived from the AV1 video codec, compresses better at every quality level. The Netflix engineering team benchmarked this. The numbers are significant.]]></description>
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