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The secret to Linux workstation peace of mind

ByJochen Lillich 2024-10-192024-10-19

In our inaugural Deep Dive session in The Server Room, I gave a demo of my Linux workstation setup. (Deep Dive sessions are part of the recurring events program in my DevOps membership community.) In my demonstration, the operating system did, of course, take centre stage. After my community members, it now your turn to…

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Talk: Infrastructure as Ruby Code

ByJochen Lillich 2024-10-152024-10-15

This is a recording of my talk at Ruby Unconf Hamburg 2024 about configuring servers using Chef/CINC. Given the fact that I decided the day before the conference to prepare and propose this talk, I think it came out pretty decent. 😄 You can find the slides for this talk here.

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Reading recommendations, week 35/2024

ByJochen Lillich 2024-08-252024-08-25

AI for sysadmins, a non-murderous design pattern, how to apply for SRE jobs and how to find focus doing them, and an interesting fish.

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Reading recommendations, week 33/2024
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Reading recommendations, week 33/2024

ByJochen Lillich 2024-08-112024-08-11

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.

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My top 5 DevOps book recommendations
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My top 5 DevOps book recommendations

ByJochen Lillich 2024-07-182024-07-17

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…

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How you know if you are improving

ByJochen Lillich 2024-07-112024-07-10

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…

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The three key drivers for making progress

ByJochen Lillich 2024-07-042024-07-17

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…

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My interview by B7H30 (video)

ByJochen Lillich 2024-07-022024-07-02

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.

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Changelog

New website features: Wiki, presentations, and blogroll

ByJochen Lillich 2024-06-272024-06-27

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…

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