Open source: free as in freedom.
Also free as in "enjoy your weekend reading the documentation."

#opensource #mememonday

Heading to LinuxFest Northwest next week and genuinely can't wait.

I'll be speaking and spending time with the kind of people who get unreasonably excited about package managers and kernel arguments. My people.

If you're going to be there, come find me. Would love to connect in person.
#LinuxFest #LFNW #Linux #OpenSource #Community

#TechTipThursday
Yes, Linux admins still configure email. No, it never gets less weird.

Check if your mail service is running:
systemctl status postfix

Send a test email from the command line:
echo "Test" | mail -s "Hello" [email protected]

Check the mail queue:
mailq

Nobody gets excited about email configuration. Until something breaks and logs stop delivering. Then it's the only thing that matters.

Last week, I mentioned Inbox Zero, for this #ProductiveWednesday, protecting your time:

The meeting that could have been an email? It could have also been a five bullet Slack message.

Protect your calendar like it's a production server.

Been thinking about this for a while and I'm finally doing it:

I'm building out blog pages on itguyeric.com to go alongside my videos and podcast episodes. Summaries, key takeaways, searchable content: the stuff that's hard to find when it's buried in a 45 minute recording.

If you've ever wanted to reference something from an episode without scrubbing through the whole thing, this is for you:

itguyeric.com
#Linux #OpenSource #Podcast #ContentCreation #TechContent #Blogging #SysAdmin

"It works on my machine.
Congratulations! We'll just ship your machine."

#MemeMonday #Linux #SysAdmin #Developers

Been meaning to get back to the homelab but I've got a problem to solve first:
Since migrating to Proxmox I haven't rebuilt my base images. No templates, no automation. Just manual installs. Not exactly a scalable strategy.

Before I spin up anything new, I need to get that sorted. Probably Ansible. Maybe just a shell script. We'll see.

What does your base image workflow look like?
#linux #sysadmin #homelab