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2026 5

  1. How I'm Solving Local Inference
  2. OSPO Notes: Open Source Governance — Who Decides, and How
  3. TOML ↔ YAML Converter
  4. OSPO Notes: How to find your community
  5. Desk Setup, January 2026

2025 8

  1. Short Family's Ultimate Holiday Movie Marathon: 29 Holiday Films
  2. Common Display Resolutions
  3. Pony Famous
  4. Will Agentic AI Pay Off? Cybersecurity Shifts and EU Cloud Pressure | TSG Ep. 973
  5. Is Kubernetes Ready for AI? Google’s New Agent Tech | TSG Ep. 967
  6. 914 Days Later — My Journey Off Klonopin
  7. Parents Guide to Buying a Nintendo Switch
  8. Social Media Landscape in 2025

2024 3

  1. Data Deception: OSI's Open Source AI Fallacy
  2. Kubernetes Likely Saved My Life
  3. Folding for Lucy

2023 3

  1. Life after DevOps'ish
  2. Terms
  3. The most annoying 1Password error after Mac Migration

2022 9

  1. Container Conundrum: DevOpsDays Chicago 2022 Open Space Notes
  2. Windows 11: How to Install WSL2 and Linux Distros
  3. Intro to eBPF
  4. Lessons in Frugality: Why Pay for Linktree?
  5. code-server, Caddy, Tailscale, and Hugo = My ultimate dev environment
  6. Conway's Law and GitOps
  7. Lucas Käldström and Chris Short Talk Kubernetes, Physics, and more
  8. Moving off Spotify
  9. 2021 Learnings, 2022 Expectations

2021 9

  1. GitOps: An implementation of DevOps
  2. Joining Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service team
  3. Having a status page forced Comcast to fix my internet
  4. From git submodule to Hugo Modules using Netlify
  5. Updated: My three favorite macOS screensavers
  6. Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site: What does that mean?
  7. Reader question: What are your favorite cultural shifts from the last year (and more)
  8. Named Key Opinion Leader, Kubernetes Influencer, and (accidentally) Red Hat CEO by Onalytica
  9. Desk Setup, January 2021

2020 11

  1. 2020 Learnings, 2021 Expectations
  2. On the Passing of Dan Kohn
  3. Fear and Loathing in YAML
  4. Does this make Max and I Disney Princesses?
  5. The AWS bill heard around the world
  6. Live streaming on OpenShift.tv and some lessons learned
  7. Talking Operators with Rob Zehicle on L8ist Sh9y Podcast
  8. Things no one tells you when you start a newsletter
  9. Open Source Initiative Board of Directors 2020
  10. Kubernetes Illustrated Children's Guide
  11. 2019 Learnings, 2020 Expectations

2019 13

  1. A getting to know you exercise
  2. DevOpsDays Detroit 2019 Trip Report
  3. DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019 Trip Report
  4. Tactical efficiency does not replace strategic efficacy
  5. Seth Vargo says hell no—puts Chef on ICE
  6. Your 39 bps matters more than you think
  7. Joining forces with OpenShift
  8. AnsibleFest Atlanta 2019 Trip Report
  9. Use The Force, Larry: Oracle Playing Politics with Nation's Defense
  10. How to Teach Old Apps New Tricks with Ansible-based Operators (Parts 1 & 2)
  11. Upstream vs Downstream
  12. The Secret to Kubernetes Secrets
  13. I'm a Red Hat Certified Specialist: Ansible Automation

2018 26

  1. 2018 Learnings, 2019 Expectations
  2. My KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recap
  3. 'Tis the Season of Family Tech Support
  4. One Fish, Two Fish, Blue Fish Sporting New Red Hat
  5. The Importance of Psychological Safety
  6. Military Phrases For Use in DevOps
  7. Joining Ansible Team at Red Hat
  8. Baltimore Go June Meeting - Go to the Rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS Turmoil
  9. DevNationFederal 2018: DevOps is Not War
  10. DevOpsDays Toronto 2018: What the Military Taught Me About DevOps
  11. ChefConf 2018: DevOps is Not War
  12. Writing Technical Articles
  13. DevOps Hiring Guide
  14. Detroit Kubernetes: Kubernetes Cron Jobs
  15. AWS Michigan: Heaven is Not a Cloud
  16. DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018: DevOps is Not War
  17. Microsoft Has Come a Long Way
  18. DevOpsDays Charlotte 2018 Ignite Talk on Go
  19. Open Source 101 Raleigh 2018
  20. Kubernetes: Cron Jobs
  21. Orchestructure January 2018 Meetup
  22. Chris Short named Cloud Native Ambassador
  23. LinkedIn Mentor Monday Detroit
  24. DevOpsDays NYC 2018 Ignite Talk on Golang
  25. Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster
  26. What I Learned in 2017

2017 20

  1. Docker, Inc is Dead
  2. Miscarriage: A Culture of Silence Helps No One
  3. My New Home is SJ Technologies
  4. Kubernetes: Getting Started
  5. Leaving Bankrate
  6. All Things Open 2017: DevOps README
  7. Video: DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017
  8. DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017: The Dark Side of DevOps
  9. Chilling Effect of Google Manifesto
  10. Testing Certificate Chains in Go
  11. The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change
  12. Breaking Encryption Won't Make Us Safer
  13. Leaving North Carolina
  14. A Night of DevOps at Open Source South Carolina
  15. The Dark Side of DevOps
  16. "Good SysAdmin to DevOps Engineer in Six Months"
  17. Find EC2 Instances That Are Missing Tags
  18. GitLab Annoyance: Private to Public Repos
  19. Military Lessons Applied to DevOps: Operation Eagle Claw
  20. What I Learned in 2016

2016 22

  1. Notes on Running a Newsletter: A Year of DevOps'ish
  2. Triangle DevOps: What The Military Taught Me About DevOps
  3. NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It
  4. DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lines
  5. The Demise of Google Fiber and Internet Under Dirt
  6. What The Military Taught Me About DevOps
  7. User Management with Ansible
  8. Notorious B.I.G. Remixes
  9. Technical Debt and the Ongoing Battle Against It
  10. What Does Yahoo's Downfall Teach Us?
  11. Ansible lineinfile be damned
  12. FBI Issues Notice Regarding Pokemon GO
  13. Take Ownership; "Plant Your Flag"
  14. Understanding, Fear, and Hate
  15. Permanently Remove Any Record of a File From git
  16. My Mac OS X Setup Guide
  17. Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac
  18. GNU sed on Mac OS X
  19. Poorly Documented Dependencies
  20. Tangible Intangibles: Questions to Ask While Being Interviewed
  21. Got Badlock? Ansible Can Help
  22. Yubikey 4 Nano Demands Use of yubiswitch

2015 8

  1. Disabling Mac OS X El Capitan System Integrity Protection
  2. LastPass Sells Out to LogMeIn
  3. What's Wrong with Microsoft's Windows 10 Marketing
  4. Mac OS X El Capitan and Junos Pulse
  5. Mac OS X El Capitan: Keychain Issues
  6. An Annoying MySQL Replication Error Code: 1045
  7. Grep Multiple Ansible Vault Files
  8. Why I'm Giving Up Content Blockers

2013 3

  1. Tim Tebow seen working out on a USC baseball field
  2. Tiny Tiny RSS: Loathe the Asshole Devs
  3. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions via Command Line

2012 1

  1. Why I Dumped Spotify Premium

2011 1

  1. The Story of Julie and Chris' Engagement

2010 1

  1. Review: Wii Sports Resort

2009 1

  1. Ear Piercing Analysis: Average Age and Additional Data

2007 5

  1. Will Kline
  2. Interview with Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets
  3. Windows Vista: Upgrading Seems Like a Really Bad Idea
  4. Google Building New Datacenter in Lenoir, NC
  5. IE Unsecure for Over 9 Months in 2006, Firefox, Nine Days

2006 1

  1. Font Size Comparison

2005 5

  1. Link Popularity
  2. Windows XP and Big Hard Drives
  3. Web Site Design Do's and Don'ts
  4. SEO Checklist
  5. Linux Directory Structure

2004 6

  1. Firefox Hits the NY Times
  2. T-Mobile Sidekick II Review
  3. Microsoft Opens Up Kinda
  4. VeriSign's rapid DNS updates in .com and .net
  5. My HP Pavilion zv5260us Laptop
  6. orkut.com - Google's First Social Network

2003 16

  1. Construction of an optimized web page
  2. Microsoft and the death of the internet
  3. Moving to linux linux hopes dashed
  4. Blogs explained
  5. Linux and ease of use
  6. Moving to linux filesystems
  7. Moving to linux partitioning
  8. Content is king
  9. Cable vs. dsl
  10. Moving to linux hardware compatibility
  11. Moving to linux
  12. Ntp you can use it
  13. Internet sociology and internet usage
  14. Simple is a good thing
  15. Microsoft and open source
  16. Evolution of windows

2000 1

  1. Moving to linux picking a distribution

Undated 7

  1. Microblog
  2. Abstracts
  3. Interviews
  4. Speaking
  5. Drawings
  6. Resume
  7. Tools