The IT Guy Show

Aaron Honeycutt breaks down NixOS, declarative configuration, and how to get started without pulling your hair out.

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

A conversation with Erik Mols about Lomiri, the convergent open-source shell that runs the same way on your phone, tablet, and desktop.

A quick, honest reset point on where I have been since leaving Red Hat and what is coming next.

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.

Nathen Harvey and I talk DORA, continuous learning, and why teams that embrace the chaos keep improving their environment.

Jennifer and Bryan Horton of Dull Made Daring help me unpack burnout, its warning signs, and recovery, sword included.

A look at ephemeral environments, disposable systems that make building and testing easier across the enterprise.