Level up your DevOps game.
Boost your skills and career in a friendly community, with DevOps/SRE online training, engineering workshops and personal mentorship!
Hi! I’m Jochen, the Monospace Mentor.
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.
Sign up for a career boost!
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.
From my blog
Practical know-how, ready to go
On my blog, you’ll find lots of helpful articles that complement my DevOps/SRE online courses.
-
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…
-
Going back to the roots for our community chat
When Discord announced the introduction of age verification, my first thought was, “That’s what I’ve been preparing for.” I logged into one of my machines and set up an IRC server.
-
Bringing Linux Administration to Everyone: Free Online Course Starting Soon
I had planned to start the cohort-based course “Basic Linux System Administration” later this week. When this cohort unfortunately didn’t fill up, I realized this was the perfect opportunity to do something I’ve wanted to try for a while: offer my Linux System Administration course completely free as a livestreaming experience. Starting this month, I’ll…
