Winding Down
As previously noticed, vmst.io will be decommissioned on June 30, 2026.Starting at 17:00 UTC (noon central US) the instance will enter self-destruct mode. This process will erase vmst.io from the...
View ArticleDeprecation Notice
At the end of the day on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, the Mastodon instance vmst.io will cease operations after nearly four years.Between now and then, users will have the opportunity to export their...
View Article3PAP
Wife: Did you buy another CPAP machine?!Me: MaybeWife: So now you have three? Why do you need three?!Me: Home, travel—Wife: You already got one for travel a few months ago!Me: Well that one was really...
View ArticleAir Quality
Installed an Ecobee thermostat, and one feature is an indoor air quality sensor. When our windows are closed, it almost always reports our home is "poor" despite two other Eve sensors saying everything...
View ArticleSleep Apnea
I went to an ENT a few weeks ago because I have been getting tonsil stones for a few years now, especially bad in the winter months. He said "yep your tonsils need to come out, this is going to be...
View ArticleClassic Ordering
Elan Hasson asked in a Matrix chat group of Mastodon admins how he should go back and watch classic Star Trek. It got me thinking about a list of episodes to help jumpstart your knowledge without...
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-holes!With the release of Pi-hole 5.0, I wanted to rig...
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 Twitter."I once joined a company that announced on my...
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 ArticleNonsense Awareness
Jessica Joy Kerr, in her blog post titled Open your eyes to the nonsense shares a great anecdote from a friend about the software development process at a utility company:“We make power, not sense.”But...
View ArticleThirty Eight K
I've historically been pretty terrible at two things: negotiating salaries and promoting my own skills. As someone who freely admits the movie of his life story could very well be titled The Imposter...
View ArticleResolution Delusion
I'm not one for making New Year's 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 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 by...
View ArticleKernel 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 ArticleExcess Battery
I recently picked up an iPhone XS Smart Battery Case for my iPhone X. I’ve previously owned the 6S battery case for my iPhone 6 and the iPhone 7 case. Let me first say that even though Apple has...
View ArticleCertified Expert
I’m pleased to announce that yesterday I passed the VCAP6.5-DCD exam, thus earning the VMware Certified Implementation Engineer – Data Center Virtualization “milestone” after elevating the VCAP5-DCA...
View ArticleVMware TAM
I have accepted a job with VMware as a Technical Account Manager (TAM).To say I’m excited about this would be a gross understatement. VMware has been the company I’ve spent the majority of my technical...
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Gravity 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...
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 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...
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