AI

A confession about how a sysadmin brain approaches sitting behind the GM screen: searchable notes, digital references, and AI as staff writer to my editor-in-chief.

The sysadmin version of Model Context Protocol, without the hype: what it is, how it differs from an API call, and why the paranoid sysadmin instinct is exactly right here.

I finally retired WordPress and rebuilt the site in Hugo over a weekend, with an AI agent handling the grunt work and me catching it when it went sideways. Here’s the honest version — including the facepalms.

I put this together for the CIQ blog: what four winners at Open Source Summit 2026 said they would build with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano running RLC Pro AI.

I wrote this for the CIQ blog: how to choose between RLC Pro AI and RLC Pro Hardened depending on whether you are running AI infrastructure or working under strict compliance.

I wrote this explainer for CIQ introducing RLC+, the free, GPU-ready tier that sits between community Rocky Linux and the full RLC Pro subscription.

Karl Abbott returns to talk about what AI removes from knowledge work and what stays stubbornly human.

Getting from the Azure Marketplace to actual inference used to mean a day of driver archaeology. This webinar with Brian Dawson, Damon Knight, and Hugo from Microsoft Azure’s core engineering team is…

Getting a GPU box ready for AI workloads is way harder than it should be, and we proved that live on the CIQ Webinar Series on April 2nd.

Damen Knight of CIQ and I dig into the hidden cost of configuring Linux for GPU and AI workloads.

I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.

This was my first CIQ webinar and I walked away genuinely excited, which is not something I say lightly. Dave Godlove and Jonathan Sparks showed off Fuzzball’s new service endpoints feature and what…