Neil Hanlon —
infrastructure, networks, systems
& the occasional potato.

swamp emits OTLP traces and logs natively. This is how I ship the traces through a Caddy auth gateway into Tempo and turn them into a RED dashboard I actually look at.

I stood up 'swamp serve' as its own FreeIPA service account using nothing but swamp models. The tool configured the host that runs the tool, and then my own OAuth flow spent an …

The FASJSON model only spoke Kerberos, so my swamp had to kinit. I got annoyed enough to reimplement the client half of GSSAPI in TypeScript with no subprocess, and then the …

I taught swamp to read Fedora (accounts, Bugzilla, the packager dashboard) so one command tells me what my packages need. The answer was 135 things.

I modeled my newborn as a typed resource with a sync method and a stack of reports. It's the newest of five ways I track one baby, and somewhere in the absurdity there's a real …

I taught swamp to drive FreeIPA, then used it to issue my laptop an 802.1X client cert and get onto my own network. Mostly this is about knowing when to write things down.

I've joined ResolveX as a technical advisor to help scale their crisis response software. Working on infrastructure, security, and scaling decisions for 988 suicide prevention …

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