So, I've done some video content and I've been trawling for interesting Kubernetes-related content for about two years now. While I can do some things in K8s and have a decent basic understanding, I want to get into a deeper dive and understand containers more fully. One thing this means is getting deeper into using and understanding Kubernetes (and Docker), and this means not just from a theoretical level, but also diving in and running it day to day.

It also means digging into and doing more work on some of these interesting tidbits I've been gathering all these years. I do a bit of review, but I think I need to create a more curated list or even a few catagorized lists with some of my own comments and ratings. I'm thinking to be realistic here; while I'd love to rate 100% of what I've already pulled in, I'd have to rate 3+ items a day, in addition to what I'm doing already, and that isn't likely to happen in the short term. So instead of trying to do 21 tidbit reviews every week, I'm going to aim for an average of 5-10 a week, and see how that goes. My current thought is to snag one older and one more current item, where current is in the last 3 months and old is over a year ago. I'm hoping to do some video content on this as well, so I might pick the best 2 or 3 for the week and do recaps or highlights for a 5 minute video and a blog entry or two here. My goal here is to build a list of good and interesting Kubernetes and Cloud Native adjacent items, that both I and others can benefit from.

I'n also going to do something about the mess here in the blog -- my self-spun version had logical divisions of months which I ditched when I jumped into Jamstack, but now its getting hard to keep what I've done when straight. Inside the files is meta data, but it means grepping to find dates, instead of at the file level. And as I write more, it just gets more cluttered. Now I'm pretty sure that I can use subdirs to wrangle the files, as long as the meta-data works. My thought is to try doing it by year, but it might be best as year/quarter or even year/month. Doing it like this, I can visit a topic and nane the post with the same title without worrying about overlapping with older entries. Itl'll take time and some experiments to figure out, but this will be helpful.

Okay, so is that it? Not quite, I want to get back to making some video content. I have been using notion to do my rough sketches, and my videos have been a lot of rough kind of gonzo content with mainly talking and a few visuals. I don't know if this is a good approach, but its where I started. While I'd like to move towards a more clean approach, I'd also like to do a bit of written support for things. So, one thing I want to do is write a blog entry for each video, and also do a blurb for each video posted.

To this end, I'm reviewing and re-watching my early bits. I'm thinking to write a supporting blog from my notes, and add references and some verbiage on the video itself. I'm hoping to have some ideas for new episodes, as I think I have brainstormed 15 things but only done about 10 videos (recorded, not edited and posted). I did think about re-doing them, and I might re-edit and add titles and credits, but for now I'm not going to redo the content. I know I could do better now, but I was learning and demonstrating that is important, I think.

One thing I'm hoping to do on occasion is a live stream. They look like fun, although I've done a couple, no one has joined live yet. I like the approach -- actual live learning on Kubernetes, warts, crashes and weird issues and all. I don't think I can do it more than every other week for now, and since I have to be in the brainspace, maybe one scheduled stream per month and possibly an ad-hoc one another time?

My goal with all of this is to building a regular routine of learning, blogging and doing videos and learning in this space. I'm not planning on making large cash on this project, but I'm hoping it grows enough to be in the "you could opt for monetizing if you wanted". I'm not looking for this to be my main job, but it would be neat to be able to buy a coffee or two a month while helping people out.

So, lots of work here, so I better get started!