Reading recommendations, week 33/2024
The role of mentorship, why Perl remains indispensable today, how to do a personal retreat, remembering the LAN, and how to cleanly shut down Kubernetes pods.
My top 5 DevOps book recommendations
In a recent Office Hour (which I hold every Friday on my live streaming channels), a viewer asked about DevOps books. They wanted to know which reads I would recommend to someone freshly entering the DevOps space. I was able to list a few, but couldn’t come up with all the ones I find useful…
How you know if you are improving
You want to get ahead in your career. For that reason, you read books, articles and newsletters (like mine), you watch videos, you do practical experiments and even work through DevOps courses. But maybe you’re still not sure if all these efforts have the desired effect. I can wholeheartedly recommend The Bike Shed podcast to…
The three key drivers for making progress
Losing motivation is very common in our industry, as the frequency of questions about this topic in the Monospace Mentor community indicates. I’m no exception; I have experienced a lack of drive and dips in work ethic a lot myself, and I still do. I’ve read a lot about motivation ever since I got my…
My interview by B7H30 (video)
In March, fellow Twitch streamer and The Server Room member B7H30 kindly invited me to an interview in his “USB My Guest” series! We talked about a lot of things ranging from my PiDP-11 to how I got fired while I was on holidays.
New website features: Wiki, presentations, and blogroll
I’ve been working on adding a few new features to the Monospace Mentor website. I’m happy to report that they’re now available for you to use! Wiki I got into the whole world of PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) methods far too late for my liking. That’s why I’ve become quite diligent in keeping notes. I…
What distributed teams can learn from open-source projects
Every week, I read about another company that issued an RTO (Return-to-Office) policy. In many cases, it’s fair to assume that this is a thinly veiled tactic to reduce expensive headcount. In other cases, I’m sure it’s the effect of a leadership that had to jump into the deep end of remote work, and never…
TSR Deep Dive session 2024-05-28 (video)
Here is the recording of our first Deep Dive session. First, I explained all the ideas and decisions behind my Linux workstation setup. Then we discussed various approaches to software installation and development environments.
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