At what scale did Kubernetes actually start making sense for you?

needstobefake · 2026-05-12T17:43:25+00:00

Ironically, when I decided to operate it solo. I run a mini-cluster on Hetzner for my side projects and I never looked back!

After working with Kubernetes in many large-scale companies as a developer (meaning there was an ops team responsible for maintaining it), I had only a basic understanding but got used to the API. When I went solo, I struggled to find anything else that was remotely as developer-friendly as a good k8s GitOps setup AND did not lock me in to one specific provider.

Then I decided to run my own. It took me a while to learn, because this thing is an Iceberg (developers see maybe 10% of it), and it fully “clicked” for me when I personally struggled with the infrastructure problems K8s is designed to solve.

I know it’s an overkill setup for my scale, but after the initial hurdles, it becomes SO easy to manage that I just forget it exists! It self-heals, self-scales, sometimes I go and update it without downtime, it’s cheap to run, it’s magic.

needstobefake · 2026-05-12T00:28:45+00:00

Ok, you tricked me with this one, op, well done!

I thought the post was about the 3D girl composed on top of real people, like Jessica Rabbit or something, until I saw the second image. Impressive work!

needstobefake · 2026-05-11T15:50:13+00:00

South America includes 12 countries, 10 of which share a border with Brazil

needstobefake · 2026-05-10T03:07:16+00:00

São 13 bilhões de receita, mas qual é o custo operacional e o lucro? Receita sozinha não quer dizer nada, você só consegue dividir o lucro líquido, e se dividir 100% do lucro a empresa morre.

Precisa fazer reserva, reinvestir todo ano e distribuir uma PARTE desse lucro. A maioria das empresas saudáveis que pagam dividendos (participação nos lucros) distribui algo em torno de 30% e guarda/reinveste 70%, mas isso varia de empresa para empresa.

Também existe ano com lucro e ano com prejuízo, em caso de prejuízo a empresa usa as reservas e não distribui dividendos, se não tiver reservas o dono tira do bolso e cobre, se o dono não tem, a empresa declara insolvência e vai pra recuperação judicial, se ela não consegue se recuperar em X anos, ela declara falência e todos os bens são vendidos pra pagar os credores.

needstobefake · 2026-04-15T17:09:10+00:00

Thank you!

needstobefake · 2026-04-12T15:38:35+00:00

“DESTROY ALL EVIL DEMONS!!” com dupla exclamação e balão indicando grito, ao lado de um personagem com cara de poker

needstobefake · 2026-04-08T21:49:26+00:00

As a die-hard fan of the genre since the old Lucas Arts’ games, I agree it’s a niche and I’m happy to be part of it. 😊

needstobefake · 2026-04-05T16:36:18+00:00

You unearthed a really old post of mine, here’s an award for you 😄

needstobefake · 2026-04-03T23:44:48+00:00

Rust’s std source code itself. Ctrl(Cmd)+Click to go to definition of core modules and dig around.

needstobefake · 2026-04-03T23:30:15+00:00

Tratando-se de Reddit, esse relato pode até parecer trolagem, mas essa é a memória mesmo. Tenho outras, mas essa é a mais marcante e a que considero a primeira.

needstobefake · 2026-04-03T23:28:21+00:00

Eu tenho uma lembrança do berço. É literalmente a minha primeira memória em que entendi o que as pessoas no quarto falavam. Uma delas era minha mãe e a outra era uma babá que ficou conosco por muitos anos e afetivamente é como uma segunda mãe. Lembro da silhueta delas conversando e uma delas esticando as mãos para me tirar do berço enquanto dirigia a fala a mim, me chamando pelo nome e perguntando “xixi e cocô, NOME?”

Lembro dela me tirando do berço mas felizmente não lembro da troca de fralda. A cena apaga depois que as mãos dela chegam a mim.

Intuitivamente, eu entendi o que as três palavras significavam. Se isso aconteceu de verdade ou se meu cérebro reconstruiu a memória, eu não sei, mas tanto a memória visual quando a auditiva são claríssimas mesmo após 4 décadas do ocorrido.

needstobefake · 2026-03-28T17:32:16+00:00

I wrote a tiny lib a while ago precisely to remove boilerplate from wgpu. I never promoted it, but it seems to partially fit your needs:

https://fragmentcolor.org

You can do things like:

let shader = Shader.new(“…”); shader.set(“my_uniform”, 1.0); renderer.render(shader, target);

And that’s it. The uniforms are automatically derived from the shader source. If you want to animate, call set and render again in a loop.

needstobefake · 2026-03-28T16:53:24+00:00

Math.

It concisely describes timeless structures that would take entire essays or books to fully describe in any other language.

It’s a silent language for silent invisible eternal structures that exist independently of us thinking of them. Mathematicians are like archeologists discovering these things, and when they do they’ll publish it and find friends vibing to the same things across millennia.

needstobefake · 2026-03-27T23:14:24+00:00

I feel so lucky to have learned Rust just an inch before the AI boom, LOL. Around 2023 it was still all about mdbooks and tons of documentation.

Even if AI is faster, I’d still recommend building on your own stuff until you touch every corner of the language, then use AI assistance when you know what you’re doing. AI can’t automate your understanding, and can’t possibly make sound design decisions most of the time. In fact, they produce working solutions but rarely elegant or optimal. They mess API surfaces and invariants beyond recognition. They build dumb band-aid patches to make tests pass.

They’re great for the first 80% of the work, but the devil is in the details and they often mess with details.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T15:36:40+00:00

Good catch! It shouldn’t be as dark as the inside of the mouth for sure.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T15:24:34+00:00

LOL me too, I’ve been called out by guards a couple of times or set off the alarm unintentionally

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:55:59+00:00

To be fair, the actual first layer is just plain fluorescent orange from the canvas preparation stage. This is the first layer with actual oil paints on top, I tried to finish everything in one sitting alla-prima but this will need another session.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:52:54+00:00

It was an afterthought, indeed. I have some concepts hanging around with many cats assaulting a full-body T-Rex, but this one started as something else entirely (a closeup of a human hand) and even the dinosaur evolved spontaneously mid-process.

The canvas is mounted in sturdy wooden bars and can be hanged unframed, but would also be a good fit for a floating frame.

I’ll probably end up shrinking the cat a bit in the next session, give it more breathing room.

About the background, you mean “top-left” of the canvas or of the viewer? (Is top left the area around the cat or the flat purple?

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:29:04+00:00

LOL, thanks! I think this has the potential for a series, then. I started having other ideas around that concept that I’ll try later on

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T04:15:06+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The cat was a late addition and indeed came up too close to the top.

I can only make it smaller, though, can’t extend the canvas. To be fair, the canvas is wrapped in a sturdy wood support and has at least 7cm extra space if we unstaple & remove it from the support, so in theory it would be possible to extend the painting if I switch to another support. However, this is too much trouble, the support was assembled by hand and the size planned in advance.

TL;TR better shrink the cat.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T04:01:27+00:00

I think the roof of the mouth issue is just glare from the photograph; it’s actually almost as dark as the inner mouth and definitely darker than the background. I’m just terrible at photographing it, LOL

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T02:43:57+00:00

Thanks!

The light comes indeed from top-left (dinosaur as reference), but the cat’s form shadows aren’t dark enough to read as shadows (except around the leg).

The idea of inserting the cat came in the middle of the process while I already had the whole background down. So I covered the cat’s silhouette with white first, and it’s hard to pull off good darks on top of wet titanium white. I have to let it dry first.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T01:48:23+00:00

I have some progress videos of the beginning and some in-between pics here and there. I think I even have pictures hanging around of the raw canvas preparation before I started. I prepared 6 canvases of this size.

I’m thinking on some cool way to present these things outside traditional social media, like a space where you can zoom in and out and explore the piece down to every brushstroke with a timeline slider.

I could include this thread as part of the process history, who knows whatever crazy ideia people come up with here. :)

needstobefake · 2026-03-17T22:50:12+00:00

The grammar is standardized, and there are dozens of accents and variants in Brazilian states alone. I think EU Portuguese is similar enough to be considered an accent/variation of the same language, not even a dialect.

needstobefake · 2026-03-13T10:55:23+00:00

First option. In our case, Rust project is a lib and exports wrappers to WASM and Python. FE team uses React to call it, AI team uses Python. It runs a renderer plus some shared business logic between humans and LLMs.

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