Videos into Companion Posts
·4 mins
A video is a wall. You cannot skim it, search it, or tell from the thumbnail whether it is worth your afternoon. A companion post gives the episode a front door.
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My Podcast Episode Guide
·6 mins
The recording is maybe a quarter of the work. The thing that holds the other three quarters together is one document per episode, built before I ever hit record.
Open, Repairable Homelab Hardware with 45HomeLab
·4 mins
I have a Dell PowerEdge R720 sitting in a colocation facility a few miles from my apartment, and every time it spins up it sounds like a jet engine for a solid 45 seconds. It is six to eight years old, I pay for the rack space every month, and I flat out refuse to hand Dell a thousand dollars just to unlock the IPMI port. Meanwhile I have 3 gig symmetrical Google Fiber at home and the colo caps me at one gig. So the same question keeps nagging at me: why is my server living somewhere else?
Open Source Password Manager?! | The IT Guy Show 026
·2 mins
Bitwarden’s Kasey Babcock and I get into open source trust, managing secrets as code, and the road to passwordless.
The Homelab SLA | The IT Guy Show 025
·1 min
Mathias Palmersheim brings enterprise monitoring discipline home and runs his homelab against an actual SLA.
Learn to Play Tabletop Role Playing Games | The IT Guy Show 024
·1 min
This one is a little off the usual path. I took a conference talk I’ve given on getting started with tabletop role playing games and brought it to the show.
Keep It Techie | The IT Guy Show 023
·1 min
Josh Lacey of Keep It Techie and I break down the real cost-benefit of running a homelab and whether it’s time to bring the lab home.
A Human in the Middle | The IT Guy Show 022
·1 min
Karl Abbott returns to talk about what AI removes from knowledge work and what stays stubbornly human.
Ubuntu Community: Years of "Just Works" | The IT Guy Show 021
·2 mins
Nathan Haines and I talk about what makes Ubuntu different at a human level after more than twenty years of community.
First Boot, First Inference | The IT Guy Show 020
·1 min
Damen Knight of CIQ and I dig into the hidden cost of configuring Linux for GPU and AI workloads.
The Problem with Subscriptions | The IT Guy Show 019
·1 min
I open 2026 with a reality check on subscription fatigue and kick off a new arc on building a personal homelab.
Wayland and My eX-11 | The IT Guy Show 018
·1 min
Brodie Robertson and I dig into the end of X11 and the rise of Wayland on the Linux desktop.