Omarchy is what did it. Hyprland hands keyboard focus to whatever window the pointer is over, no click, and you stop thinking about it inside a day. Back on macOS I was clicking a window before typing into it again, every single time.
brew install --cask rbstp/tap/heed
Last time I published the CNPE lab, an internal developer platform on kind as layered make targets, with 71 checks that ask whether things work rather than whether pods are Running. That was the machinery. It says nothing about what to do with it on a Tuesday evening.
This is the other half.
Twenty-nine sections across the five exam domains, one evening each, covering every competency in the official curriculum PDF. Concepts, exercises against the lab, then a self-check. It is a static site with no build step, so curriculum/index.html opens straight out of the clone and make study does it for you. Thirteen of the figures are interactive, because dragging a pod's memory request until the QoS class flips beats reading about eviction order.
The CNCF's Certified Cloud Native Platform Engineer exam is hands-on across five domains. Reading docs does not prepare you for that. So I built the platform instead and published it.
github.com/rbstp/cnpe-exam-prep
A full internal developer platform on kind, as layered make targets you install and remove one at a time. Cilium, Gitea, Argo CD, Flux, Argo Rollouts, Tekton, Crossplane, CloudNativePG, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Loki, OpenCost, Kyverno, Gatekeeper, SPIRE, Istio ambient, and Backstage.
Story: ⭐⭐⭐ | Narration: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gene Kim and Steve Yegge’s audiobook on vibe coding has excellent narration, but I’d recommend checking out their YouTube channel instead. Most of the book’s examples were already covered in their promotional videos, and the high-level approach makes you wonder how long the advice will stay relevant in this fast-moving space.
The core framework they present, the Three Developer Loops, is genuinely useful though: