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Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional or guru. Do not take anything I say as financial advice, because it is not financial advice. You should always do your own due diligence before making any sort of financial transaction. I also am providing referral links...

Back in the Swing of Things

Back in the swing of thingsAfter nearly 6 months away from most forms of content creation, I am finally ready to jump back in. Here's what I've been up to POOP. SO MUCH POOPThe twins were born prematurely, ahead of schedule by almost two months. They had no issues at...

JNCIS-SP (Service Provider) Breakdown

I feel a lot better after that. This year, my certification goals started out pretty light. My goal was basically going to be to ease back into the certification landscape after taking a year off, looking towards maybe CCNA and DevNet Associate. Safe to say I...

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CryptoCurrencies, Blockchains, and Products I Like

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional or guru. Do not take anything I say as financial advice, because it is not financial advice. You should always do your own due diligence before making any sort of financial transaction. I also am providing referral links...

How to Deploy WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 20.04 with Let’s Encrypt SSL and a .dev Domain

Welcome to my blog, friends. Here I will be detailing my current events, like today's event, which was installing WordPress proxied behind Nginx (and subsequently a full LEMP stack). Beyond that, using a .Dev top-level domain brought it's own challenges, so here is...

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CryptoCurrencies, Blockchains, and Products I Like

Disclaimer: I am not a financial professional or guru. Do not take anything I say as financial advice, because it is not financial advice. You should always do your own due diligence before making any sort of financial transaction. I also am providing referral links...

Back in the Swing of Things

Back in the swing of thingsAfter nearly 6 months away from most forms of content creation, I am finally ready to jump back in. Here's what I've been up to POOP. SO MUCH POOPThe twins were born prematurely, ahead of schedule by almost two months. They had no issues at...

JNCIS-SP (Service Provider) Breakdown

I feel a lot better after that. This year, my certification goals started out pretty light. My goal was basically going to be to ease back into the certification landscape after taking a year off, looking towards maybe CCNA and DevNet Associate. Safe to say I...

Recover a FreeNAS ZFS Volume

Well that was stressful. Four years ago, I custom built a NAS for my in-laws. We took on a huge project of converting all of their classic vinyl records into MP3s. It was a massive undertaking and took us forever to get it all converted. 250 GB of music later, we had...

Cisco Model-Driven Telemetry and Yang Models with Multiple Keys

A quick blog about something bizarre I encountered recently when recording Cisco's Model Driven Telemetry content in our DEVOCR course.  The thing about Model-Driven Telemetry (henceforth referred to as MDT) is that whole "Model" thing. When configuring MDT on a Cisco...

Coping with I.T., Coronavirus, and Imposter Syndrome

I recently came across  this tweet (and RTd it) which made me reflect on the ride that I've been on over the past few months. But how selfish of me - do you hear that? "The ride I've been on" as if we all haven't been on this ride.  Coronavirus and it's consequences...

The CLI vs APIs

Now let me address this right now, before you go any further. The answer is both. I also apologize for the lack of pictures in this post. Being that my profession is to create content and, quite honestly, put myself out there, I am open to criticism and debate all day...

How I Fell Back in Love with Juniper

I have had a complicated relationship with Juniper products throughout my career, and quite frankly, that's at no fault of Juniper's. It's really the fault of the networking profession. Think about every network engineer job posting you've come across - what are the...

Understanding Nornir for Network Automation

It took me awhile to get "the point" of Nornir. Was it just a Python library that helps you script? Was it a configuration management tool that competes with the likes of Salt and Ansible? Turns out it's not really any of the above. Nornir is an automation framework,...

SDN vs Automation: Which is Better?

Let's go for something controversial. I was recently having this conversation with John McGovern (IPvZero) - which one is better: SDN solutions, or straight up network automation and code solutions? So... Ansible vs DNA Center? Nornir vs ACI? Buy it off the shelf, or...

Back in the Swing of Things

Back in the swing of thingsAfter nearly 6 months away from most forms of content creation, I am finally ready to jump back in. Here's what I've been up to POOP. SO MUCH POOPThe twins were born prematurely, ahead of schedule by almost two months. They had no issues at...

JNCIS-SP (Service Provider) Breakdown

I feel a lot better after that. This year, my certification goals started out pretty light. My goal was basically going to be to ease back into the certification landscape after taking a year off, looking towards maybe CCNA and DevNet Associate. Safe to say I...

Recover a FreeNAS ZFS Volume

Well that was stressful. Four years ago, I custom built a NAS for my in-laws. We took on a huge project of converting all of their classic vinyl records into MP3s. It was a massive undertaking and took us forever to get it all converted. 250 GB of music later, we had...

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