Technology, with the screws visible
I’m Kyle Rubenok—a product manager, homelabber, and incurable tinkerer. This is where I write down the practical details, sharp edges, and opinions worth keeping.
From the notebook
Cloudflare has introducted a fairly novel solution to this problem by combining their Cloudflare for Access offering protecting SaaS services with their Tunnels (formerly Argo) product to tunnel on-prem services to the Cloudflare Network.
Recently published
Well, it's been about two years and I wrote on this even less than I expected I would, but I decided to give it a little tech swap under the covers.
In the last few weeks, I've noticed some key differences from my internship experiences but also some similarities. I've also refelcted a little on how my education prepared me for this job and what I'd do differently if I were still in school.
Like many others, my old apartment building in Montreal had a phone based intercom system to buzz guests into the building. The intercom could be given entries with the names, unit numbers and a local phone number for each resident. This seems like a pretty sound system on the surface, but living in a student-dense area a few problems arose.
A few weeks ago, I have the pleasure of attending and speaking at MLH's Hackcon VII. This was my second time attending the conference and this time, having semi-retired out of the McHacks organizing team, I was much more focused on making connections and appreciating the people there than frantically attending every talk I could. The hallway track turned more into the campfire track and before I knew it we were already packing our bags to head home.
A frequent conversation that happens when people come into my apartment shortly after they walk in: 'What is THAT!?' as they point at my server rack in the corner of my living room. I intent to cover what the rest of my homelab does and why I adore tinkering with it in a later post but I wanted to start with the piece of enterprise hardware that I got started with first: the networking.
The things I carry every day in my backpack and pockets represents a carefully selected and curative collection of (mostly electronic) items that help me get stuff done on a daily basis. I’ve broken this down into what’s in my backpack which is almost always with my while the contents of my pocket represent the bare minimum of things that I carry at all times.