# hirdman.net

> Personal technical writing by Love Hirdman about Kubernetes, Linux, databases, observability and the systems he builds and operates.

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## Main pages

- [About Love Hirdman](https://hirdman.net/about/): Background and professional focus.
- [Articles](https://hirdman.net/articles/): Complete list of published articles.
- [Privacy](https://hirdman.net/privacy/): Privacy and data-processing information for the site.
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## Articles

- [I had been looking for a personal AI assistant in the wrong places](https://hirdman.net/articles/personal-ai-assistant-photo-archive/): A request for photographs from my son's baptism turned into an AI-assisted recovery of twenty years of family history.
- [What a second environment found in a shared agent code factory](https://hirdman.net/articles/second-estate-outside-test-bed/): How a second Kubernetes and GitOps environment exposed hidden assumptions, defects and load limits in a shared agent code factory.
- [What a month of running an agent code factory against a real infrastructure estate taught me](https://hirdman.net/articles/code-factory-retrospective/): A retrospective on operating a code factory against a real Kubernetes and GitOps estate, including throughput, defects, temporary controls and the limits of autonomous decision-making.