Daniel Drack ⚓️

New site, fresh start


NEW
cloud-nativemeta

Welcome to the new drackthor.me. I rebuilt the site on Astro so I finally have a proper place to write - not just a static résumé. … at least that’s what the initial idea was, we’ll see how it goes. I’m not the first, nor the last guy to have a great idea, and never act upon it but once in the beginning 😅

What you’ll find here.. or at least what I’d think would be cool to write about

  • Cloud native & Kubernetes - platform engineering, the good and the painful lessons from building cloud-native platforms.
  • Security - software supply chain, policy as code, runtime defense. The hard truths, not the vendor slides (unless they are cool ☝️).
  • Community & speaking - notes from talks, conferences, and organizing Cloud Native Days or meetups.

Why Astro you might ask

what I wanted:

# me asking ChatGPT
best static site generator for single person CV and blog - give me best 5 options.
must run on github with github sites
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# GhatGPT answers
Generator       Best For                      Difficulty    Blog        CV/Portfolio  GitHub Pages
Astro           Modern personal websites      Medium        Excellent   Excellent     Excellent
Hugo            Fast, content-heavy sites     Medium        Excellent   Excellent     Excellent
Jekyll          Native GitHub Pages support   Easy          Excellent   Good          Native
Eleventy (11ty) Flexible static sites         Medium        Excellent   Excellent     Excellent
Docusaurus      Developer portfolios & docs   Easy          Good        Good          Excellent

… ☝️ and here we are.

According to my AI friend:

Fast by default, content in Markdown, no framework baggage.
Exactly what a DevOps engineer wants from a personal site: it builds in a second and gets out of the way.

so, sounds good to me.

Also, this was recommended to me by a colleague (very skilled coder) - so I assume, not the worst choice.

So, what to expect.. I intend to write about whatever comes across my mind, and what I would not want so share on LinkedIn. Long bulky blog posts, probably not. AI enhanced and assisted texts - maybe, but with my ideas and expertise. Am I too proud to use AI for image generation or to prompt diagrams and ascii art, no way - I want to get content accross, not fight with syntax or visualizations.

More soon. In the meantime, find my talks under Talks and the full story under About / CV.