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about.html

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     <a href="writing/index.html">Writing</a>
     <a href="about.html" class="active">About</a>
     <a href="photo.html" class="nav-secondary">Photos</a>
-    <a href="guestbook.html" class="nav-secondary">Guestbook</a>
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   <a href="writing/index.html">Writing</a>
   <a href="about.html" class="active">About</a>
   <a href="photo.html">Photos</a>
-  <a href="guestbook.html">Guestbook</a>
   <a href="mailto:austinbedmonson@gmail.com">Get in touch</a>
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@@ -331,7 +329,7 @@ <h1 class="about-title">Austin Edmonson</h1>
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   <div class="about-body">
-    <p>I know most cover letters today are written with generative AI in some form, and honestly, I think that says something important about where engineering is going. I deeply value AI tooling, not because it replaces engineering, but because it sharpens it. It has changed how I learn, how I build, and how quickly I can move from idea to implementation while still staying thoughtful about reliability, security, and maintainability.</p>
+    <p>I know most about me cover sections today are written with generative AI in some form, and honestly, I think that says something important about where engineering is going. I deeply value AI tooling, not because it replaces engineering, but because it sharpens <b>me</b>. It has changed how I learn, how I build, and how quickly I can move from idea to implementation while still staying thoughtful about reliability, security, and maintainability.</p>
     <p>I use different tools intentionally depending on the problem space. I lean on Claude Code heavily for development workflows and rapid iteration, ChatGPT for documentation, architecture exploration, and learning, Copilot within VS Code for workflow acceleration, and DeepSeek for deep technical explanations and software engineering fundamentals. These tools have made me dramatically more productive, but more importantly, they have helped reinforce strong engineering habits, better design decisions, and faster feedback loops.</p>
     <p>I bring 6+ years of experience across DevOps, platform engineering, systems administration, and software engineering, with a strong focus on security, secrets management, CI/CD, Kubernetes, observability, and operational reliability. Much of my background has been shaped by learning directly in production environments and building systems alongside the people who depend on them every day. Being self-taught taught me how to understand systems from the ground up—how infrastructure, applications, networking, automation, and developer workflows all connect together.</p>
     <p>Over the course of my career, I've worked across multiple engineering teams and environments, each with different operational needs and engineering cultures. That exposure taught me not only how to build systems, but how to build systems that teams can realistically operate and maintain.</p>

index.html

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     .tag-engineering { background: #D1FAE5; color: #065F46; border-color: #A7F3D0; }
+    .tag-platform   { background: #CCFBF1; color: #0F766E; border-color: #99F6E4; }
     .tag-ux          { background: #FCE7F3; color: #9D174D; border-color: #FBCFE8; }
     .tag-infra       { background: #E8EEF8; color: #2D4470; border-color: #B8C8E8; }
+    .tag-terraform   { background: #FEE2E2; color: #991B1B; border-color: #FECACA; }
 
     /* ─── CARD GRID ─── */
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     <a href="#writing">Writing</a>
     <a href="about.html">About</a>
     <a href="photo.html" class="nav-secondary">Photos</a>
-    <a href="guestbook.html" class="nav-secondary">Guestbook</a>
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   <a href="#writing">Writing</a>
   <a href="about.html">About</a>
   <a href="photo.html">Photos</a>
-  <a href="guestbook.html">Guestbook</a>
   <a href="mailto:austinbedmonson@gmail.com">Get in touch</a>
 </div>
 
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     <div class="post-list-editorial">
 
+      <a href="writing/cicd-same-image.html" class="post-editorial-row">
+        <span class="post-editorial-date">May 2026</span>
+        <span class="post-editorial-title">The Most Important CI/CD Rule We Adopted: Same Image, Different Clusters</span>
+        <span class="post-editorial-tag tag-platform">Platform</span>
+      </a>
+
+      <a href="writing/terraform-dishwasher.html" class="post-editorial-row">
+        <span class="post-editorial-date">May 2026</span>
+        <span class="post-editorial-title">Terraform is Like a Dishwasher: Great for Daily Loads, Overkill for a Single Cup</span>
+        <span class="post-editorial-tag tag-infra">Infrastructure</span>
+      </a>
+
       <a href="writing/overengineering-operational-exhaustion.html" class="post-editorial-row">
         <span class="post-editorial-date">May 2026</span>
         <span class="post-editorial-title">We Were Overengineering Ourselves Into Operational Exhaustion</span>
-        <span class="post-editorial-tag tag-infra">Infrastructure</span>
+        <span class="post-editorial-tag tag-platform">Platform</span>
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       <a href="writing/partida-gap.html" class="post-editorial-row">

photo.html

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     <a href="index.html#work">Work</a>
     <a href="index.html#writing">Writing</a>
     <a href="photo.html" class="active">Photos</a>
-    <a href="guestbook.html" class="nav-secondary">Guestbook</a>
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   <a href="index.html">Home</a>
   <a href="index.html#work">Work</a>
   <a href="index.html#writing">Writing</a>
-  <a href="guestbook.html">Guestbook</a>
   <a href="mailto:austinbedmonson@gmail.com">Get in touch</a>
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