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With decades of experience in web operations, software engineering and IT leadership, I’m here to help you improve your everyday work and take that next career step in DevOps/SRE.
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I help DevOps people grow. In courses, workshops and individual mentorship sessions, I enable software developers and system administrators to deliver results faster, better and more reliably. All my learning products are optimized for engineers who have little time to level up.
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On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
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AI took my job as a coder. Then it made me a better software engineer.
Many developers are watching AI agents generate bad code, introduce bugs, and erode their skills. I’m having a different experience.
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The motion that changed everything
I switched to Vim a long ago after using a series of GUI editors like TextMate and Sublime Text. The urge for novelty has me still try out GUI editors sporadically, the most recent one being Zed. But I always come back quickly. I’m doing all my engineering work from the terminal, and by now…
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Fixing Flatpak Obsidian CLI
I just tried to use the new CLI tool for Obsidian for the first time. To set it up, enabling a toggle switch in the “General” section of the settings should suffice. But if Obsidian is installed on Linux as a FlatPak, all you get when you execute the command is: The problem is that…
