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This year I have a job that requires two days per week in the office. Purely remote jobs are tougher to get. There's a lot of competition…

Setup KVM I have a Debian desktop with 128GB RAM (RAM isn't too expensive, so this wasn't too bad). My hypervisor is KVM. I started out…

There are at least 2 systems of thinking. System 1 The first system is our unconscious system. This is where expertise lives. When we know…

Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holliday helped me get through getting laid off from Lumen Technologies. It helped me realize that it's not about…

Last week I did FizzBuzz in Cobol. Continuing my old programming language series, here is Fizzbuzz in Fortran. Fortran isn't as foreign to…

Whenever I want to learn a new programming language one of the first things I do is to make a fizzbuzz program. Fizzbuzz programs loop…

We think we have it bad with some of the vulnerabilities out now, most recently Palo Alto and Cisco have had major SSL VPN vulnerabilities…

This Palo Alto vulnerability has been a huge headache last week. I guess we have every firewall upgraded to a safe version now (10.2.8-h…

For every work task, I create a markdown file with a frontmatter header that I tag with the technologies that I am working with in the task…

Backing up the configs of our F5 BIG-IP appliances was my first Itential automation. The goal was to backup about 100 F5 BIG-IPs weekly to…

In the fast-paced world of technology, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has emerged as a fundamental pillar for managing and scaling modern…

Let's say you have a Cisco ASA firewall in your network. It is configured with a syslog server and it happily sends its logs over using…

I was tasked with figuring out a strange issue. A web service kept going unavailable for 5-15 minutes at a time. These outages would occur…