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I don't know what I'm talking about.

If you find me where I live in the UK (NW England), I may well be ranting about software development, sports-ball (ITFC, cricket, cycling, "Go Bears!" etc). I'm probably harmless but you might want to walk away slowly backwards just in case.

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Joined November 11, 2017

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LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Jul 29, 2026

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@LiquorVicar/116999842567768010 Any #insects #entomology experts able to help identify this little beauty?

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Jun 22, 2026

Replying to @europlus@social.europlus.zone

@europlus@social.europlus.zone @davidgerard@circumstances.run Is the Tolerance paradox a potential parallel here too?

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Jun 05, 2026

Replying to @simonbtemple@mstdn.social

@simonbtemple@mstdn.social @jess@blop.social books trip to Leiden immediately

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Jun 04, 2026

Replying to @jess@blop.social

@jess@blop.social 108. 108! 108!! I'm a big cheese fan but I've never curated a board that big. I bow down to your cheesy awesome-ness (and next time you do it, can I get an invite 😉 )

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @imalcolm@mastodon.social

@imalcolm@mastodon.social @swisslet@mas.to It's vital to know there are no sun spots on your frozen dairy confection.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @tehstu@hachyderm.io

@tehstu @infobeautiful in Welsh it would be 9x10+2 I think?

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @joannaholman@aus.social

@joannaholman@aus.social I used to cycle past it regularily when I lived in Oxford! Legend has it that Dragon Hill, just below the horse, is where St George slew the dragon.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @Madic@chaos.social

@Madic@chaos.social I haven't migrated our prod cluster yet but tests using traefik in my dev cluster are very encouraging. Scaled to 1500 pods easily and might go up to 2500 or so (before I hit the limit on NodePorts). We've set a 5s throttle duration as we add pods in batches of up to 400.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social

@Madic@chaos.social Looks like it's a constraint of using Envoy Proxy at this scale. Digital Ocean have suggested we switch to Traefik for ingress and we're getting much better results (I had 1500 pods running earlier with no problems).

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Replying to @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social

@Madic@chaos.social We can be running ~510 (I can't remember the exact number offhand) app pods and it's fine. We add one more and these warnings start appearing (and the extra pod is not routable externally). If I then delete that pod, the warnings stop. At no point have I seen the existing pods affected.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 05, 2026

Replying to @Madic@chaos.social

@Madic@chaos.social I haven't seen those messages. The warnings we're getting (like several of these every second) are: "[StreamEndpoints gRPC config stream to xds-grpc-cilium closed since <*> ago: 14, upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: overflow" module=agent.controlplane.envoy-proxy subsys=envoy-config

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 04, 2026

Any #k8s #kubernetes experts able to give me a bit of a second opinion? We have a DOKS (Digital Ocean) cluster using Cilium/Envoy/GatewayAPI. We're hitting an issue where the Envoy config is getting to a certain size (~4Mb in total, around 500 non-control plane pods) and we're getting overflow errors. At this points pods and associated resources are all created fine but none of the newly created pods are accessible externally (older pods are fine). Is this a known limit?

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org @GeePawHill@mastodon.social Oh yeah, thinking about it I haven't watched it in an age... Fun fact, after we moved into our current house we found out that it had been named "Marwood" at some point in the past.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social

@kauer@aus.social @oberonsghost@aus.social It was reported on the BBC so decent chance it did actually happen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-36580448

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @GeePawHill@mastodon.social

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social it's also used as the soliloquy at the end of Withnail and I IIRC.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026

Replying to @kauer@aus.social

@kauer@aus.social @oberonsghost@aus.social Came here to post the same story. No idea if it's true I'll have to check. But it's such a great story.

LiquorVicar @LiquorVicar@mastodon.social · Oct 24, 2025

Replying to @ericwastl@hachyderm.io

@ericwastl@hachyderm.io Thank you so much for all the effort you've put in over the years. Fully respect your decision to make these changes. Your sanity is important!

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