A personal blog by Jack Harter mixing first-person tech and devops stories, career memoir, and essays on technology and society. Readers get candid, humorous accounts of running a self-hosted site and working in IT, alongside reflective commentary on AI.
Website: https://blog.hartr.net/
Practitioner field notes on building and governing production AI agents, mostly on Microsoft Copilot Studio and Power Platform. Issues cover infrastructure-as-code for governance, environment and ALM strategy, and orchestration design drawn from hands-on projects.
Practitioner-written DevOps and cloud articles that walk through real client engagements, such as refactoring Terraform repositories, renaming production AWS ECS services and debugging Kubernetes shutdown behavior. Readers get detailed, step-by-step accounts of the problems, trade-offs and fixes involved.
Practical, code-backed guides to running governed AI agents and infrastructure-as-code on Azure and GitHub, drawn from production use cases. Each issue lists the stack, setup time and last-verified date, and links to a public starter repo.
A homelab blog documenting the build of a production Kubernetes cluster on TuringPi hardware with Talos Linux, covering migrations, monitoring and secret management in detail. Readers get worked examples, real failures and the reasoning behind each design decision.
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