Weeknotes #55 (November 22, 2025)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I worked on
- I added the Tailscale Kubernetes Operator to my local cluster such that containers within the cluster can access other machines that are on my tailscale network. The install process was fairly straightforward and works as I want it to. I'm thinking about integrating it as well on my ingress using Traefik as nginx ingress is being retired and this will automate the process of renewing the certificates rather than me manually inserting the TLS files.
Things I consumed
- Nilay Patel of The Verge released an episode of his Decoder podcast titled The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon going over how if AI Agents will browse the web for you, the apps that were reliant on humans being fed ads, and other incentives may be losing some of their revenue. His theory finally triggered when Amazon sued Perplexity to stop their Comet web browser from shopping for users autonomously. It definitely is an interesting mindset in general that things like Perplexity, Google's AI Mode & AI Overviews, among others are possibly leading people to actually stop going to the website that feed these search engines and will change the dynamic for how organizations provide their products online and how they interact with these search providers.
- Wiliam Woodruff posted a short but strong article that I have agreed for awhile now: We should all be using dependency cooldowns. Tools like Dependabot are extremely useful to keep 3rd party dependencies up to date, but just delaying the PRs even for a sole week can protect you from a good chunk of supply chain attacks. I did this myself on dependabot MRs for my projects indirectly but I went ahead and added the cooldown configuration that it would explicitly not open the PR for a week after the release came out.
- Cloudflare had a major outage this past Tuesday which now is the 3rd major outage after AWS and Azure and I feel it is definitely pushing that as these companies get bigger and more centralized, alongside the quarterly profit maximalist mindset, the actual stability and morale of the people behind these tools will suffer and the outages will become bigger and bigger. For me personally, this has led me to more continue seeing in what places I can move my computing to be local and not solely reliant on these cloud vendors.