It seems like in recent years there has been a shift to immutability. I hear it being the new "buzz" word on podcasts and IT conversations. For a while now I have been brushing off NixOS and Silverblue distros as a fad. I didn't have time

For several years I've been using Phoscons' deCONZ software controller for my ConBee II. Overall, the software was stable and the controller never dropped any of the paired devices. My reason for switching came when I bought new power plugs that included power monitoring. I was able

My Journey to Cloud Native Automation In the ever-evolving landscape of software development and deployment, mastering new tools is not just beneficial; it’s essential. My recent venture into Kubernetes, along with Terraform and Ansible for provisioning and automation, has completely transformed my workflow. Here’s how I navigated the

As the amount of virtual machines has grown in my environment, so has the amount of updates. Updating Linux is a breeze because of the package managers. This can even be automated with tools like unattended-upgrade on Debian-based distros, Ansible playbooks, or simple cron jobs. Most of these jobs run

For a long time, I was using WordPress for a basic website setup. I mainly did this since it was easy to set up and run with a LAMP stack (Apache/MySQL/PHP). This was the old way I did things, you know just what I taught myself over the