Silencing Alerts During OpenShift Cluster Upgrades with Prometheus and Alertmanager

How to detect OpenShift cluster upgrades, extend the detection window to cover the recovery period, and use Alertmanager inhibit rules to suppress noisy alerts during upgrades.

March 9, 2026 · 6 min · thrix

How a Single Regex Stalled 30 Testing Farm Jobs for Hours

Tracing stuck Testing Farm jobs from process list through Python stack traces to a catastrophic regex backtracking bug in tmt — caused by a 1M-character line in test output.

March 6, 2026 · 5 min · thrix

Fixing Emoji Fonts in Chrome on Fedora Atomic Desktops

How I debugged and fixed missing emoji rendering in Google Chrome on a BlueBuild/Fedora Atomic Desktops system — and why fontconfig wasn’t the answer.

February 17, 2026 · 4 min · thrix

Hello World

First post on the blog – who I am, why I started writing, and what to expect.

February 17, 2026 · 2 min · thrix