2025-11-13 08:08:39
Sick of the endless back-and-forth to get decent ChatGPT results? Jeff Su’s got four game-changing hacks that slashed his AI workflow in half across any role or industry.
Reverse-engineer your best prompts, spin one piece of content into multiple formats in minutes, use the Red Team technique to have ChatGPT critique its own work, and force it to outline its reasoning (Blueprint Scaffolding) before executing. Each trick’s backed by real examples you can steal today.
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2025-11-13 08:02:08
In the latest Ringer Movies episode, Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan crown themselves “kings of the sewer” after diving back into Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes, starring Nic Cage, Gary Sinise, and Carla Gugino. They unpack De Palma’s signature camera moves, Cage’s scene-stealing quirks, and the film’s over-the-top set pieces with their usual banter.
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2025-11-13 08:01:45
Predator: Badlands, the second PG-13 entry since 2004’s Alien vs. Predator, has won over fans and critics alike, smashing franchise opening-weekend box office records. Flipping the Predator from villain to hero in this sequel/Alien crossover clearly paid off.
For a spoiler-packed deep dive, catch The Weekly Planet podcast every Monday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and more. Don’t miss early videos and bonus episodes at BigSandwich.co.
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2025-11-13 07:58:57
Supporting one language is easy.
Supporting one country is manageable.
Supporting multiple countries, multiple languages, and many services — while keeping Google happy — is an engineering problem that almost no tutorial really covers.
This post walks through the real-world challenges of building a multi-lingual, multi-territory, multi-service website that actually ranks, using concrete examples from:
We’ll cover:
Most “multi-language SEO” content assumes:
One domain, a few languages, same market.
But if you operate across multiple countries, you don’t just have languages — you have:
This results in a combinatorial explosion of nearly identical pages.
If you don’t structure them correctly, Google:
A perfect example: home cleaning, which exists in different countries with different names and languages.
It’s easy to accidentally use English slugs everywhere, like:
/fi-FI/services/home-cleaner
/sv-SE/services/home-cleaner
This destroys local relevance.
Correct approach:
These are the exact service names real users type into search engines.
The golden rule:
Each localized page must be canonical to itself.
Alternates must always include the canonical URL.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://nuuduu.com/fi-FI/services/kotisiivous">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/fi-FI/services/kotisiivous" hreflang="fi-FI">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/sv-FI/services/hemstadning" hreflang="sv-FI">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/en-FI/services/home-cleaner" hreflang="en-FI">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://nuuduu.com/sv-SE/services/hemstadning">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/sv-SE/services/hemstadning" hreflang="sv-SE">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/ar-SE/services/tnzyf-almnazl" hreflang="ar-SE">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/en-SE/services/home-cleaner" hreflang="en-SE">
Estonia
<link rel="canonical" href="https://nuuduu.com/et-EE/services/kodukoristus">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/et-EE/services/kodukoristus" hreflang="et-EE">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/ru-EE/services/uborka-doma" hreflang="ru-EE">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/en-EE/services/home-cleaner" hreflang="en-EE">
Latvia
<link rel="canonical" href="https://nuuduu.com/lv-LV/services/majas-uzkopsana">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/lv-LV/services/majas-uzkopsana" hreflang="lv-LV">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/ru-LV/services/uborka-doma" hreflang="ru-LV">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/en-LV/services/home-cleaner" hreflang="en-LV">
Lithuania
<link rel="canonical" href="https://nuuduu.com/lt-LT/services/namu-tvarkymas">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/lt-LT/services/namu-tvarkymas" hreflang="lt-LT">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/ru-LT/services/uborka-doma" hreflang="ru-LT">
<link rel="alternate" href="https://nuuduu.com/en-LT/services/home-cleaner" hreflang="en-LT">
Subdomains split authority:
fi.example.com
se.example.com
ee.example.com
Path-based locales consolidate it:
example.com/fi-FI/...
example.com/sv-SE/...
example.com/et-EE/...
This lets strong markets lift weaker ones.
Every backlink benefits the whole ecosystem.
Each page must:
This prevents Google from collapsing similar pages or showing the wrong market version.
Below are anchor text examples using “Order home cleaning” in each local language. The anchor link text is a strong signal to Google on what the page is about.
Provided as HTML code and exampled.
HTML
<a href="https://nuuduu.com/fi-FI/services/kotisiivous">Tilaa kotisiivous</a>
Rendered:
Tilaa kotisiivous
HTML
<a href="https://nuuduu.com/sv-SE/services/hemstadning">Beställ hemstädning</a>
Rendered:
Beställ hemstädning
HTML
<a href="https://nuuduu.com/et-EE/services/kodukoristus">Telli kodukoristus</a>
Rendered:
Telli kodukoristus
HTML
<a href="https://nuuduu.com/lv-LV/services/majas-uzkopsana">Pasūtīt mājas uzkopšanu</a>
Rendered:
Pasūtīt mājas uzkopšanu
Markdown
< a href="https://nuuduu.com/lt-LT/services/namu-tvarkymas">Užsakyti namų tvarkymą</a>
Rendered:
Užsakyti namų tvarkymą
With correct slugs, canonicals, alternates, architecture and localized anchor text:
Scaling internationally requires a real SEO-aware routing system:
Once this foundation exists, expanding to new markets is safe, predictable and technically clean.
2025-11-13 07:51:36
DevContainers make reproducibility a team sport.
A devcontainer.json plus a pinned image and feature set gives you an environment you can clone, build, and attest.
It’s not purity—it’s pragmatic determinism for developers who actually need to ship code.
Meme recap: Old security checks IDs.
EnvSecOps checks IDs and the bag.
This post: Why DevContainers are a practical, portable way to define and prove the bag.
Declarative build recipe: devcontainer.json defines image, features, mounts, extensions.
Rebuild it anywhere, same result.
Version control + lockfiles: Store it in the repo; features and images can be pinned to digests, not tags.
Reproducible onboarding: The “works on my machine” excuse dies quietly.
Everyone starts from the same attested bag.
The bag stops being “my laptop and vibes” and becomes “this image digest plus these layers, signed at source.”
Use policy as code (OPA, Conftest) to reject drifting definitions:
package policies.devcontainers
deny[msg] {
input.image_tag == "latest"
msg := "Base image must use a pinned digest, not 'latest'"
}
deny[msg] {
not input.signed
msg := "DevContainer manifest must be signed"
}
`
A simple conftest test devcontainer.json in pre-commit or CI catches violations long before deployment.
Result: Credentials exist only for verified environments.
devcontainer.json if it doesn’t exist.image@sha256:…).cosign sign --key fulcio).Developers aren’t the only ones carrying bags.
Operators open shells into production — often with the same long-lived images and unpinned tooling that we already rejected for builds.
Those shells must be treated as attested DevContainers too:
devcontainer.json, not a mutable image tag.This way, “break glass” access doesn’t mean “trust me.”
It means “verify me, then time-limit the proof.”
The bag doesn’t care if you’re writing code or restarting a service — it only cares that it’s clean.
Lockfile diffs become change requests.
Policies migrate with the code.
Rebuilds are deterministic enough for attestation.
It’s not perfectly pure—DevContainers depend on Docker build caching and external registries.
You’ll still need:
@sha256: not :latest).cosign verify).And runtime enforcement still applies: read-only mounts, minimal capabilities, short-lived credentials.
DevContainers turn “check the bag” into check the build.
Attest a devcontainer.json, sign the resulting image, and refuse to mint tokens for anything else.
No signed, policy-approved DevContainer → no token.
2025-11-13 07:50:28
Example:
You define “3 Pods” → if only 2 are running, the controller starts 1 more.
There are 3 broad categories:
| Category | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Workload Controllers | Manage Pods and how applications run. | Deployment, ReplicaSet, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, CronJob |
| Infrastructure Controllers | Manage nodes, networking, namespaces, etc. | Node Controller, Service Controller, Namespace Controller |
| Custom / Operator Controllers | Created by users to manage specific apps or CRDs. | Prometheus Operator, Argo CD Operator, AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) |
These are the controllers you’ll use daily.
| Controller | Purpose | Typical Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Manages ReplicaSets and performs rolling updates/rollbacks. | Stateless web apps, APIs |
| ReplicaSet | Ensures a specific number of identical Pods are running. | Low-level controller used by Deployment |
| StatefulSet | Ensures unique, ordered Pods with stable storage and network IDs. | Databases (MySQL, MongoDB), Kafka, Zookeeper |
| DaemonSet | Ensures one Pod runs on each node (or selected nodes). | Log collectors, monitoring agents (Prometheus Node Exporter, Fluentd) |
| Job | Runs Pods to completion. | Batch tasks, data processing |
| CronJob | Runs Jobs on a schedule. | Backups, cleanup jobs, periodic reports |
These are system-level controllers running in the kube-controller-manager (on the control plane).
| Controller | Description |
|---|---|
| Node Controller | Detects when nodes go down and manages node lifecycle. |
| Service Controller | Creates or removes cloud load balancers when Services of type LoadBalancer are created. |
| Namespace Controller | Cleans up resources when a namespace is deleted. |
| EndpointSlice Controller | Maintains network endpoints for Services efficiently. |
| PersistentVolume Controller | Manages PersistentVolume and PersistentVolumeClaim binding. |
| PersistentVolumeBinder | Handles dynamic provisioning of storage. |
| ServiceAccount Controller | Creates default service accounts and API tokens. |
| ReplicationController (Legacy) | Older controller replaced by ReplicaSet. |
| Job Controller | Manages Pod creation for Job resources. |
| CronJob Controller | Manages Job scheduling for CronJobs. |
All these run inside one process:
kube-controller-manager
When you use EKS, GKE, or AKS, additional controllers integrate Kubernetes with the cloud provider:
| Controller | Role |
|---|---|
| Cloud Controller Manager | Connects Kubernetes with the underlying cloud APIs. |
| Route Controller | Manages networking routes between cluster nodes. |
| AWS Load Balancer Controller | Provisions AWS ALB/NLB for Ingress or Services. |
| External DNS Controller | Automatically manages DNS records in Route53 or Cloud DNS. |
Developers can create their own controllers to automate any workflow.
Example:
You define a Custom Resource Definition (CRD) called Database, and a custom controller ensures that:
Database object is created → a Pod and PVC are provisioned.This is how Operators are built.
Operators are custom controllers that encode domain-specific operational logic.
| Example Operator | What It Manages |
|---|---|
| Prometheus Operator | Deploys and configures Prometheus and Alertmanager |
| Argo CD Operator | Manages Argo CD GitOps setup |
| Kafka Operator | Manages Kafka clusters |
| PostgreSQL Operator | Automates PostgreSQL database deployment |
| AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) | Manages AWS resources (S3, RDS, etc.) directly from Kubernetes |
Operators use:
| Type | Example Controllers | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Workload Controllers | Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, Job, CronJob | Manage Pods and app workloads |
| System Controllers | Node, Namespace, Service, Endpoints, PV/PVC | Maintain cluster infrastructure |
| Cloud Controllers | AWS Load Balancer, Route, Cloud Controller Manager | Integrate with cloud provider |
| Custom Controllers | CRD-based logic | Extend Kubernetes |
| Operators | Prometheus Operator, Argo CD Operator | Automate complex apps |
All default controllers (like Deployment, StatefulSet, etc.) are part of the kube-controller-manager process on the control plane.
Custom and Operator controllers run as Pods inside the cluster.
You can check which controllers are running:
kubectl get pods -n kube-system | grep controller
You might see:
kube-controller-manager-minikube
aws-load-balancer-controller-xxxx
ingress-nginx-controller-xxxx