Micah Hausler

2026 Home office AV setup

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is an update from my 2023 post, as I’ve added some equipment and the camera I use is discontinued.

I really enjoy using the Elgato Prompter for video calls. If you’re anything like me, you probably are typically looking at your own preview in a video call, and usually end up looking at like the corner of the screen instead of at the webcam lens, and to the person on the other end, its a suboptimal experience. Everyone knows this and kind of goes along with it, but personally I want to subtly communicate that person on the other end of the call has my attention.

Why did Apple build Linux Container support?

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Disclaimer: I work as a Principal Software Engineer at AWS on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Apple is an AWS customer. The following post is solely my own perspective and speculation based on publicly available data, with no internal insight from anyone at Apple into their reasoning.

High level summary of the announcement

On June 9, 2025, at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC), they announced new Linux container tooling and a framework for their macOS operating system built in Swift. The developer focused announcement and video, along with a screenshot of docker-like activity of pulling images and running containers, stated the following

Bluesky Comments

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A few months ago I came across this Bluesky post about using Bluesky replies as blog comments, and pinned (replied with a 📌 to add to the pin feed) it for later.

Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section? `npm install bluesky-comments` Built by @coryzue.com
— Jay 🦋 (@jay.bsky.team) 2024-11-25T22:32:20.183Z

Bluesky post embed shortcode courtesy of Bryce Wray

Well, later finally came around and I wanted a reason to try out Cursor on some non-proprietary code. I finally updated my font-awesome to get the Bluesky logo with a link on my homepage, and then through a 10 minute chat with Claude via the Cursor composer got comments working in this Hugo site! You can find the code it came up with in this gist if you want to reuse it.

My home office AV setup

Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I recently recorded a talk for work, and was asked about my AV setup. The camera and lense choice is directly inspired by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal’s setup for their excellent podcast, Acquired. I figure since I work full time remote from home, I want to be seen and heard clearly. Also, the a7c is a fantastic full-frame compact travel camera.

Category	Item	Price
Camera	Sony a7c	~$1600
Lens	Sony FE 35mm f/1.8	~$650
Camera Power	Dummy Battery	~$37
Camera Mount	Clamp arm mount	~$30
Video Card	Elgato Cam Link 4k	~$90
Camera Control Cable	6ft USB-C cable	~$17
HDMI cable	Micro HDMI to HDMI	~$10
Camera Control	Sony Imaging Edge	Free
Recording Software	OBS	Free
Microphone	Yeti Blue	~$100
Microphone Mount	Microphone Arm	~$22
Equipment Total		$2556

My home UniFi setup

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

UniFi homelab setup

Hardware

My home network looks something like the following:

Fortunately my house is wired with CAT6 and the cables terminate in the garage. I’ve got my UDM sitting on top of the 16 PoE switch, powering the two APs in other parts of the house.

Reading List

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 09:00:00 -0800

2026

To Read

Completed

The Ruthless Elimanation of Hurry - John Mark Comer

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

Incomplete

Kissinger - Walter Isaacson

Completed

2018

2017

Automating Public Services with Kubernetes

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ingress is one of the most under-appreciated features of Kubernetes, and in this post I’ll show you how to easily get a new service up and running with automatic TLS and DNS on a kops cluster in AWS using Ingress rules. Kubernetes Ingress rules allow you to route path or host-based HTTP traffic with native Kubernetes API objects.

Setup

First we’ll need a Kubernetes cluster, which we’ll install with kops. You’ll need the following tools installed:

Talks

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:30:19 -0500

Tools and Strategies for Making the Most of Kubernetes Access Control - KubeCon NA 2025 - Atlanta, GA (slides)
A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer - KubeCon Europe 2025 - London, UK (Panel dicsussion)
End to End Message Authenticity in Cloud Native Systems - Cloud Native Rejekts Europe 2025 - London, UK
Securing Kubernetes workloads in Amazon EKS - re:Invent 2024 - Las Vegas, NV (slides)
Securing Kubernetes workloads in Amazon EKS - re:Invent 2023 - Las Vegas, NV (slides, code)
Kubernetes Security Response Committee: Intro & Deep Dive - KubeCon EU 2023 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Securing Kubernetes: How to address Kubernetes attack vectors - re:Invent 2022 - Las Vegas, NV (slides)
Running high-security workloads on Amazon EKS - re:Invent 2019 - Las Vegas, NV (slides)
Living with the pathology of the cloud: How AWS runs lots of clusters - KubeCon NA 2019 - San Diego, CA (slides)
Abstracted Infrastructures - Introduction to Kubernetes - Chadev 1/26/17 - Chattanooga, TN
Migrating Configuration to Kubernetes with Container-Transform - KubeCon 2016 - Seattle, WA
Prometheus and Time-Series Monitoring - Chadev 8/4/16 - Chattanooga, TN
Abstracted Infrastructures - Apache Mesos - Chadev 5/19/16 - Chattanooga, TN
Web Application Security and You: Intro to OWASP and Pen Testing - Chadev 7/23/15 - Chattanooga, TN
DevOps Panel Discussion - Chadev 7/18/15 - Chattanooga, TN

Amazon Internal

Amazon Kubernetes Summit 2026: Under the hood of Kubernetes security: a technical deep dive - Amazon Kubernetes Summit 2026 - Mar 5, 2026
Amazon Kubernetes Summit 2026: Getting Started with open source contributions - Amazon Kubernetes Summit 2026 - Mar 5, 2026
EKS Principal Engineer panel: the future of Kubernetes at Amazon - Amazon Kubernetes Summit 2026 - Mar 5, 2026
Kubernetes for Amazon engineers - Principals of Amazon (PoA) - Feb 1, 2024
EKS Dataplane Deep Dive - Internal team training - Jun 11, 2019

Writings

Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:30:19 -0500

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service gets independent affirmation of its zero operator access design - AWS Security Blog - 11/12/25
Cedar: A New Approach to Policy Management for Kubernetes - Cloud Native Computing Foundation Blog (CNCF) - 3/28/25
Cedar Access Control for Kubernetes - Cedar Blog - 10/30/24
Introducing Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) - AWS Open Source Blog - 12/1/20
Introducing fine-grained IAM roles for service accounts - AWS Open Source Blog - 9/4/19
Improvements for Amazon EKS Worker Node Provisioning - AWS Open Source Blog - 8/23/18
Network Load Balancer Support in Kubernetes 1.9 - AWS Open Source Blog - 1/11/18
Running Bleeding-Edge Kubernetes on AWS with kops - AWS Open Source Blog - 12/23/17
Compose your infrastructure, don’t micromanage it - Medium - 4/19/17