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Articles and working notes on building and understanding real systems.

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The heart of LearnWithSK — polished articles, plus the working notes behind them.

Polished engineering articles, written for other engineers.

Sep 18, 2026
The Cluster That Almost Wasn't
Stage 1 of Ship Boring Lab: building a two-node Kubernetes cluster from scratch, debugging SSH, cloned VM identities, Ansible edge cases, and the failures hiding underneath the automation.
Sep 14, 2026
Build, Break & Operate — a Ship Boring build-in-public series
The manifesto: why the best infrastructure is boring, why in-house tooling deserves a public rebuild, and the five rules this series will not break.
Sep 8, 2026
Stop Collecting Skills. Build a Skill Stack.
The goal isn't to learn everything. It's to become good at solving problems that actually matter.

Working notes — what I’m currently learning, building, testing, breaking, or reconsidering.

Sep 7, 2026
A Good Day of Building and Learning
Refreshing programming fundamentals, making progress on a side project, and giving LearnWithSK its own identity.

A Ship Boring build-in-public series

Follow a platform build in public. 2 posts so far · latest: The Cluster That Almost Wasn't

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