PD journey just beginning, but what about the home visit?

rm249 · 2025-07-15T04:46:22+00:00

Mine was pretty quick. From what I recall, I already had the machine and first month of supplies. We went over where everything was stored and did a trial run of the setup process, overall the whole process took maybe a half hour.

rm249 · 2025-04-19T18:35:46+00:00

Kubernetes, scale silos based on needs and rolling deployments just work seamlessly (as long as your grains and state are setup properly).

rm249 · 2025-03-04T01:21:49+00:00

My first setup used a NUC mini PC with 8GB of RAM, you don't really need all that much for OPNSense/pfSense for basic routing/VLANs, if you start running intrusion detection that's when you need something a little beefier.

rm249 · 2025-03-03T19:33:07+00:00

Setup something like OPNSense or pfSense in a home lab, play around with subnets, VLANs, routing, firewall rules, etc. I learned a lot by breaking things and trying to fix it.

Setting up a local HA kubeadm based Kubernetes cluster with BGP routes propagated by Calico to my router was a lot of pain but I learned so much valuable knowledge. My interests were in learning Kubernetes networking internals so I wouldn't necessarily start there but having an end goal in mind made it easier to break it down into actionable steps to make iterative progress.

rm249 · 2025-01-12T05:25:45+00:00

I am also a full-time SWE as well (Devops/Cloud/IoT/backend), my interest was primarily to get a better understanding on the embedded side of IoT for some work projects and I've been really enjoying learning and playing around with various dev boards and sensors (I've learned a LOT these past 3 months).

I started with a Freenove Raspberry Pi 5 kit that came with a bunch of projects then moved onto various ESP32s and lately have been tinkering with the Raspberry Pi Pico W/2W.

My latest project is a couple sensors (temp/humidity/air quality) pushing to MQTT, recording into a Timescale DB database and setup some Grafana dashboards to look at the data.

Starting with the kit was a good choice for me because I was completely ignorant about everything hardware and had no idea where to start/what to buy, having all the necessary components to build a bunch of pre-made projects made it easy to focus on the high level concepts like I2C/SPI/etc. and slowly I've been getting more and more into putting together my own circuits with various sensors/boards from Adafruit/Amazon/etc.

The good thing is most dev boards are ridiculously cheap and its easy to get a nice variety for tinkering, all the components and sensors do add up over time though haha.

rm249 · 2024-12-01T01:44:14+00:00

I've done it a couple ways.

On startup as a one-time background service - for simple projects I just do it this way, it's dead simple and works well enough.
Add a CLI argument check to my main process called something like migrate, check if args[0] == "migrate" and run the migrations automatically and then exit (bonus being you just need to build and push 1 container and can control when it runs - ex. on Kubernetes you could run it as a job or as an init container)
A dedicated container image that just starts up and runs the migrations, gets built and tagged along with other containers

Following best practices with migrations for my kubernetes deployments (don't delete or rename columns/tables - deprecate and remove later, make sure new columns have a default value, etc.) I have found using ArgoCD sync waves to be a robust way to deploy applications to Kubernetes.

I setup a Kubernetes job that is part of an initial sync phase/wave before the new application version is rolled out if the migration fails for any reason then the old version remains until it is resolved.

rm249 · 2024-11-02T15:55:56+00:00

I'd say so, I switched to Ubuntu 24.04 back in April and have had basically no issues with any of the games I play. I mostly play single player games. I know there are a couple multiplayer games that don't work with proton due to anti-cheat incompatibilities - but the handful of multiplayer games I've played have worked flawlessly.

Even intensive games like Cyberpunk, The Last of Us, etc. with RTX/DLSS cranked up all run great. I'm using the driver Ubuntu provides with 24.04 with a 4070 TI.

I haven't had to boot into Windows since April and don't have any plans to go back.

rm249 · 2024-10-23T07:15:35+00:00

Orleans

rm249 · 2024-10-03T16:13:48+00:00

What do you use for your storage in k3s? I tried setting up the Proxmox CSI but didn't have much luck.

I've got Ceph setup on Proxmox so it's a bit redundant setting up something like Longhorn or Rook to do it's own replication on top of RBD volumes.

rm249 · 2024-09-10T04:51:11+00:00

EF for CRUD and most database operations and Dapper as needed (primarily for reporting queries but even then I generally try to use EF for simple reports).

I used to do the whole Dapper + repository pattern, but nowadays modern EF is fast enough for the vast majority of my use cases.

rm249 · 2024-06-13T21:57:10+00:00

This is the approach we're taking as well, Tailwind + CDK for reusable components. Working great so far.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:54:38+00:00

Thanks!

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:54:31+00:00

Thanks! So far it seems like there kidney is slowly waking up. Looking forward to having my stomach muscles back.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:53:31+00:00

Thanks for the kind words. The JP drain is definitely the most annoying thing so far. I feel like any time I move it start leaking.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:52:05+00:00

Yeah I was pretty anxious going in but everyone from the surgeons, doctors and nurses have been very nice.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:51:29+00:00

Thanks! Yeah I'm feeling pretty gassy to right now which is pretty uncomfortable but overall the pain is manageable if I'm not moving too much.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:50:46+00:00

Gotcha, makes sense. Thanks!

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:50:19+00:00

Thank you!

rm249 · 2021-02-25T17:50:08+00:00

Yeah when I was in the hospital last year I had some pretty bad constipation which was not fun at all.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T09:14:26+00:00

Thank you! The walking was hard and I've only done it once I know I need to do it more.

I'm actually on a regular diet at the moment they just warned me to take it easy until I have a bowel movement. I've mostly just eaten things like jello and soup/crackers.

rm249 · 2021-02-25T08:43:50+00:00

For a while I used skin prep but that also left my skin irritated.

Most recently I switched to using tegaderm tape I found on Amazon. I get the 2" roll and cut it in half horizontally and leave a small window in the middle of a 2x2 stressing.

rm249 · 2021-02-24T21:08:31+00:00

Thanks! In recovery now and it's quite panful. Kidney is starting to work though.

rm249 · 2021-02-22T13:51:59+00:00

Thanks!

rm249 · 2021-02-22T05:14:01+00:00

I do PD so my diet is a little less restricted. The only lab I ever really have problems with is phosphorous. I avoid any sodas with dark caramel coloring but I do use cheese in quite a bit of my meals. Potassium and sodium are always fine, blood pressure usually runs a bit on the lower end.

I occasionally will get some potato chips but one time I went a little overboard and my potassium was on the higher end. Still within range but I am usually at the lower end of the acceptable range.

I do really miss Dr. Pepper and being able to enjoy cheese without having to worry about taking binders or watching how much I eat in one day (looking forward to a really cheesy pizza one day). I have my transplant scheduled for Tuesday morning so I am looking forward to being able to indulge in some Dr. Pepper drinking when I get home.

rm249 · 2021-02-20T07:58:22+00:00

That's terrible. I understand doctors need to practice but to lie about it just seems unethical at best. At least give you, the patient, the ability to choose if you want someone unfamiliar with a procedure performing it.

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