Tech on Tony De La Nuez

vx

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:55:25 -0500

vx

An offline dictation tool for macOS weighing in at 71mb.

While working it’s felt like a lot of the lag in my workflows has been due to typing. Even after optimizing my keyboard setup, the ability for my fingers to keep up with my brain was slowing me down.

I looked into voice to text tools, but all the popular ones at the time sent data over the wire, which wasn’t really an option. So I built one that didn’t.

How Kubernetes Deployments, ReplicaSets, and HPAs coordinate

Sat, 03 May 2025 12:01:14 -0500

Let's walk through a real-world scenario where a Kubernetes Deployment rollout and HPA clashed yet everything was technically working. Here's how these important control loops interact under pressure and how to debug autoscaling failures that don’t show up in staging.

Building nightly ghost blog backups

Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:17:57 -0500

Back in grad school I used to make some extra cash by coaching and writing articles about Hearthstone (an online collectible card game made by Blizzard). I primarily wrote “deck techs”, guides that explained how to play the most powerful and consistent decks that were dominating the scene. I loved this job, it was a surprisingly technical creative outlet and paid for the occasional treat meals at my favorite restaurant in St. Louis, Salt n Smoke.

Doing kubernetes on the cheap

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:11:22 -0500

Most SRE-aligned engineers will tell you they have a home lab. Depending on how grey the beard is, it may be an old blade they acquired when a company moved data centers, an intricate setup of Raspberry Pi 4s set up in a custom cooling rack, or like me and many others, it may just be an old gaming computer they no longer use but cannot bring themselves to get rid of. Whatever it may be, it’s usually used for learning, tinkering, or to run some of the /r/selfhosted favorites.

Why I'm not excited about buy now pay later

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:41:40 -0500

It’s a system (sigh) built on getting people to buy things they can’t reasonably afford through the veil of “it’s only X a month.” Unnecessary consumer debt sets people up to fail by putting them on a treadmill of excess consumption they believe is under control.

Sticker shock is a good thing. If you see the price tag of something and it has your head reeling, there’s probably a good reason you shouldn’t be buying it.