SysAdmin

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

Reactive security is table stakes at this point, and it is not keeping up. I sat down with Nathan Blackham, Brady Dibble, and Sultan Alof from CIQ to talk about what it actually looks like to build…

I wrote this for TuxCare to explain, step by step, how KernelCare applies kernel patches to running memory so teams stay secure without rebooting.

Job search coach Jeffry Ullman and I dig into a reality-based approach to landing your next role through LinkedIn.

A wide-ranging chat with Nate Lager about the sysadmin life, from burnout and bash scripts to automation and authenticity.

A solo look back at how I broke into system administration and how the sysadmin role has changed over the years.

Christian Hernandez explains GitOps in plain terms for Linux admins, comparing it to traditional sysadmin practice and where to start.

I wanted to run AI locally on Fedora using an Nvidia GPU I had sitting in my Dell PowerEdge R730 — and an hour and a half later, I actually got it working. Here’s what the road looked like.

The goal was simple: build a reusable Fedora golden image homelab template I can clone whenever I need a new server. Nothing about it was simple.

A Dell PowerEdge R730 that’s been sitting in the rack collecting dust finally has a job: and this stream is the whole messy process of giving it one.

The WordPress migration homelab project that started as a quick detour turned into a two-hour deep dive — because nothing in the homelab ever goes exactly to plan.

I fired up a livestream to do something I’ve been putting off way too long: bringing my self-hosted Matrix server back from the dead, live, in real time, with no safety net.