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@williamsmale.com

Cybersecurity engineer & based Omni-liberal.

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I Rewrote My Media Server in Kubernetes and Only Cried Twice Ditching Docker for k3s and deploying Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr and Prowlarr behind HTTPS - wildcard certs, SMB mounts, Helm charts, and 502 errors included.

If you're running a home media server and still on Docker this one's for you.
Full k3s + Jellyfin + arr stack deployment with one Helm chart, cert-manager, and SMB mounts.
β†’ williamsmale.com/blog/tech/de...

#kubernetes #homelab #selfhosted

04.03.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Reflections: Safe Agile is a Scam After publishing my critique of SAFe Agile, the response surprised me β€” not with simple agreement or dismissal, but with genuinely sharp pushback that forced me to reconsider my blind spots. In this f...

Criticised SAFe Agile & the People fired back.

Efficiency is not a universal truth. Account for global teams. What "product" means for security engineers.
Here's my response to the best pushback I received.

Love the debate!
β†’ williamsmale.com/blog/story_t...

#SAFe #Agile #TechRant #Debate

26.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone had any experience with OpenAIs Aardvark?

Thoughts?

#CyberSecurity #OpenAI #AISecurity #CodexSecurity #Security #ChatGPT #AI #Aardvark

26.02.2026 11:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right β€” you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 25422 πŸ” 6948 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 155
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23.01.2026 10:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
SAFe Agile is a SCAM A blunt, humorous look at how agile went from a startup superpower to a corporate circus. This post breaks down story points, sprints, planning increments, meeting overload, and why SAFe agile often k...

The Agile Manifesto fits on one webpage.

SAFe requires a $995 certification course.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

Why SAFe Agile is a scam: williamsmale.com/blog/story_t...

#SAFe #Agile #TechRant #SoftwareEngineering

11.12.2025 14:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Watching the live #Sha1-Hulud feed for the past few days like

github.com/search?q=Sha...

26.11.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Shai Hulud Strikes Again (v2) - Socket Another wave of Shai-Hulud campaign has hit npm with more than 500 packages and 700+ versions affected.

For those looking for a Shai Hulud Update
we have hit 800+ composmised packages

socket.dev/blog/shai-hu...

26.11.2025 13:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cloudflare Outage Disrupts X, ChatGPT and Thousands of Sites Cloudflare experienced a major global outage on Tuesday morning, disrupting access to major websites including X, ChatGPT, and thousands of other services that depend on its internet infrastructure.

Thanks ground.news

ground.news/article/clou...

18.11.2025 14:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

twitter.com

18.11.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

chatgpt.com

18.11.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Newest Questions Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers

stackoverflow.com

18.11.2025 14:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thread of all companies affected by the #Cloudflare #Outage
God be with the engineers troubleshooting

18.11.2025 14:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Cloudflare Status Welcome to Cloudflare's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

#Cloudflare is down. The internet has ground to a halt!
www.cloudflarestatus.com

18.11.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Docker Just Isn't Cutting It A developer shares their journey migrating from Docker to Kubernetes using K3s, covering why Docker fell short, how K3s simplifies multi-node setups, lessons from running Plex on Kubernetes, and why J...

Finally made the jump from Docker to Kubernetes, specifically K3s. Also swapped Plex for Jellyfin because it actually plays nice with containers.
My reasoning’s in the latest post; Full technical breakdown coming next!
πŸ““πŸ‘‰ williamsmale.com/blog/tech/mi...
#Kubernetes #Homelab #Containers #DevOps

03.11.2025 22:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nigel Farage says Reform UK could cut minimum wage for young people - and defends U-turn on tax pledges Mr Farage gave a wide-ranging news conference setting out Reform UK's economic plans, and defending claims of U-turning on 2024 election manifesto pledges.

Ahhh yes the answer to the cost of living crisis, lowering the minimum wage. It's so obvious #UKReform
news.sky.com/story/nigel-...

03.11.2025 21:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blue total traffic 
Orange China specific traffic

Blue total traffic Orange China specific traffic

Shout out to all my loyal readers in China. Yes all 400 of you! Really impressed with your 3 second read times πŸ€–
#BotLife #InfosecHumor

31.10.2025 10:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New season of the Witcher. Don't do it to yourself, it outperformed even my low expectations
#witcher

30.10.2025 20:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We live in a post truth world who need facts. Its all vibes bro!!!

29.10.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When even Venmo is like "wow mate you have some tough choices to make"

29.10.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Can we appreciate the irony of this post being written by AI as well

17.10.2025 11:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One problem AI can solve. Before you sign up, get an AI-generated T&Cs summary. Now thats a useful chatbot!

#AI
#DataPrivacy
#InfoSec

17.10.2025 08:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looks to be Vodafone centric with providers using their network getting knocked as well

13.10.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You got to love users!

13.10.2025 14:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought so as well but reports for other providers seem to be coming in

13.10.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Status overview

Looking like broadband and mobile providers are having a little trouble in the UK Vodafone, BT, onestream, Virgin Media, Voxi, CityFibre, TalkTalk, EE, Sky, Three, O2 affected.
downdetector.co.uk

13.10.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
VPS Price Tracker: Cheap VPS Lists & Prices VPS Price Tracker is a search engine for VPS: compare thousands of Virtual Private Servers all over the world.

Looking for a cheap #VPS?
Checkout this website vpspricetracker.com

28.09.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We live in a day and age where Microsoft Teams takes more then a minute to just load the calendar. HOW
#enshittification

17.09.2025 14:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There are two types of people.
1) 4:59 = Closed for business
2) 4:59 = Open

23.08.2025 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Socrates walked with swagger" - Marcus Aurelius

23.08.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0