Kernel Panic
I’ve been thinking for over two years about how to talk about this, how to talk about the day I couldn’t process anymore. The day where my bullshit buffers overflowed. The day of my internal kernel...
View ArticleGigacast Appearance
I was recently a guest on Gigacast, along with Cody de Cody De Arkland and Al Rasheed, to discuss mental health and my recent Kernel Panic post.Being lifted onto the shoulders of giants, thanks...
View ArticleFeeling Helpless
For a while, what transpired in the aftermath of that night, left me feeling betrayed by some people that I thought I could trust, and feeling helpless. Like so many times in life before, I was told...
View ArticleResolution Delusion
I'm not one for making new years resolutions. They always get broken, and then you're disappointed in yourself. However, Brent Simmons posted something on Inessential which I think is a good goal for...
View ArticleThirty Eight K
I've historically been pretty terrible at two things: negotiating salaries, and promoting to my own skills. As someone who freely admits the movie of his life story could very well be titled The...
View ArticleNonsense Awareness
Jessica Joy Kerr in her blog post titled “Open your eyes to the nonsense” has a great anecdote from a friend, about the software development process at a utility company:“We make power, not sense.”But...
View ArticleOutlook Overload
For the last couple weeks I’ve been confused why Microsoft Outlook on my Mac would start consuming over 100% CPU while sitting idle, spinning up my fans, and generating a bunch of disk write activity....
View ArticleSkip Day
It turns out that finding something to write about every day is really hard. Shocking, I know. You may have noticed (or, maybe not) that January 1-4 there was a new post here every day. I skipped...
View ArticleDelicious Strategy
I don't know who Peter Drucker is, but Matt's quote attributed to him, is sound:"Culture eats strategy for breakfast"This cannot be overstated. pic.twitter.com/pWwjEw8Z4j— Matt Haedo (@matthaedo)...
View ArticleVeeam Team
The first time I used Veeam's backup software was in 2010. Up to that point I'd had experience with Symantec Backup Exec, Microsoft Data Protection Manager, and Commvault Simpana. The first time I used...
View ArticleResume Deletions
There are some things that just aren’t worth putting on your resume. This was the reminder that came to mind during replies to Owen Williams on the tweet machine.I once joined a company that announced...
View ArticleProject Nautilus
Introducing VMware Project Nautilus:Project Nautilus brings OCI container support to Fusion, enabling users to build, run and test apps for nearly any OS or cloud right from the comfort of your own...
View ArticleUniversal TAM
This video from Atlassian was shared internally at VMware a couple of weeks ago, and my initial comment was that minus the few references to their company specifically, this video was a great...
View ArticleInteresting Enough
Greg Morris writes:… I do suffer quite a lot with imposter syndrome. The great thing is, I have learnt not to check my blog stats, I’m not bothered about podcast downloads and I sure as hell don’t care...
View ArticleGravity Sync
I just got on the Pi-hole bandwagon a few weeks ago, and boy do I love it. Really, who doesn't love DNS? And what is better than a Pi-hole? Two Pi-hole!With the release of Pi-hole 5.0, I wanted to rig...
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