04 / Learning

What I’m learning now

Active topics I’m practicing in labs and day-to-day platform work — plus where that learning shows up in writing.

Last updated: July 2026

Recently shipped from learning

Tab Scoot, the Gateway API learning site, and the Hetzner K3s lab all started as deliberate practice — then became public notes.

Active topics

Status is honest, not a fake percentage — exploring, building, or already using it in real work.

Using in work

Using Cursor daily for platform work, cloud agents, and shipping side projects like Tab Scoot faster.

Building

Getting better prompts and PRDs out of models before handing work to agents — less rework, clearer scope.

Building

Practicing declarative delivery and promotion flows on my Hetzner K3s lab with Argo CD and Kargo.

Exploring

Learning the Ingress NGINX successor hands-on — routing, policies, and a dedicated learning site.

Longer-range themes — not a duplicate of the active list above.

Ongoing

Make Cursor, agents, and good prompts a normal part of CI/CD, docs, and incident toil reduction — not a side experiment.

Ongoing

Push further on proactive monitoring, clearer runbooks, and automation that catches issues before users do.

H2 2026

Take Gateway API, GitOps, and TLS learnings from the Hetzner lab into cleaner, repeatable platform patterns.