A useful Cloud Dataflow option for applying labels to Bigtable export jobs so costs are easier to track.

A closer look at how PostGIS represents geometries and handles intersects queries for area-of-interest searches.

The GPG Suite and gpg-agent forwarding setup that finally worked for me between macOS and Ubuntu.

A short walkthrough for getting case-sensitive filenames working with VirtualBox on macOS.

A review of Mastering Ansible, kicked off by a real debugging problem around variable precedence and Ansible behavior.

How I adapted Ansible rolling deployment patterns to work with F5 BIG-IP load balancers.

First notes on trying FlowBAT and SiLK for flow collection, plus the Ansible roles I published while getting started.

A proposal for treating operational remediation as a service backed by automation, APIs, and clear ownership.

A follow-up on remote work, what changed for me, and what still matters for making it work well.

A practical LLDP troubleshooting note for checking what hosts and switches are really advertising.