The Monospace Mentor blog
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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 Monospace Mentor website features are now available: a wiki, presentation archive, and blogroll.
Distributed teams can learn a lot from open-source projects about writing, collaboration, and asynchronous work.
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.
Learning works best when you practice with others, ask questions, and get feedback instead of only consuming content.
In this Hot Seat session in The Server Room, I reviewed Yohan's assessment project, a Kubernetes deployment of the Cortex SecOps dashboard. He did an amazing job!
A reflection on moving beyond productivity systems and focusing instead on the purpose behind the work.
If you're a Junior Engineer and you feel overwhelmed from time to time, I have good news: You don't have Impostor Syndrome.
Career growth depends less on chasing new tools and more on mastering the fundamentals that never stop mattering.
Team efficiency is less about pushing harder and more about finding and reducing the friction that slows everyone down.
The Server Room opens as a DevOps community of practice for software engineers, sysadmins, SREs, and DevOps practitioners.
Five practical skills junior engineers need to grow beyond basic coding and become effective team members.