Josh VanDeraa

A week in with FluidVoice, a push-to-talk dictation app that turns speech into text wherever your cursor is.

Books # For several years I have been providing content in blog posts.

Announcing today, the availability of the second edition of my book Open Source Network Management.

I thought running multiple AI agents locally meant loading the model into memory once per agent.

My RSS feeds broke during the Hugo migration.

When the dealership service rep couldn’t explain what was wrong with our vehicle, I sent the repair notes to my AI assistant.

I went from calling AI a 50/50 bet to burning through API credits in days.

Here we are diving into just one of the time savings samples of what the AI world is able to accomplish these days.

I recently was presented with a request to look at where there was a request to validate that a Rack would be unique at a Location in Nautobot.

Recently I updated my Python development environments to use Python UV for managing Python versions and tools on the system.

I’m back over to Hugo for my blog content using the Congo theme.

This post explores why the “Amazon API Mandate” remains relevant for modern network automation.

Managing audio settings on Mac devices can be repetitive, especially when switching between different microphones for calls, recordings, or meetings.

AutoCon4 and NautoCon@AutoCon are in the books.

It’s been a while since my last post, life and work have both been full.

As the AI movement continues to expand its reach into the networking space, the need for an appropriate source of truth for network data becomes more critical than ever.

Coming out of the 2024 AutoCon2 conference held in Denver the week of November 18th, 2024 - there is one thing that is standing out more so than anything else.

This post is will provide a brief overview of how port binding works in Linux.

Modern Network Observability # I’m proud to be one of the three authors to put together the book on Modern Network Observability.

The year 2024 will showcase the remarkable evolution and contributions of AI.

This may be my favorite post within the realm of what is possible as I write this series.

In the first release of Nautobot all of the Jobs were Atomic by default.

Nautobot Book # { align=right width=“400” } I’m proud to have been an author in the Network Automation with Nautobot found on Amazon book that has recently been released.

At a previous position to joining Network to Code I was asked to help to build automation to help with the configuration of switches going into a MLS stadium.

Nornir includes a function that allows for the transformation of inventory data, a feature integrated within the Nornir platform itself.

In this post, we’ll dive into WAN design and address a common question that I was provided with in the 2000s: “My home internet costs only $35 per month.

I have been looking at migrating over to the Starship shell for a little while.

So, if you are a returning user you notice something that is a little bit different.

Today I’m going to dive into my getting started with network automation, and perhaps my first successful automation.

One of my favorite features of Nautobot that may not be well known is the capability to put a button on pages that take you to other locations.

Just recently released at the beginning of 2024 is a project that I am super excited to see in the open source by Network to Code.

The year of 2023 I think may have had some of the biggest leaps in the Network Automation capabilities that are being delivered by some of the best in the business.

Recently Slack started introducing a new UI that is bringing back the importance of knowing keyboard shortcuts.

In my home environment I am leveraging Nautobot as my source of truth.

One of my hot topics in my past that I haven’t seen written about often is the calculation of WAN availability and what the design is built for.

As part of my journey of using my Debian based Dev Workstation, as well as my studies towards completion of the DevNet Expert, I wanted to get up and running with the DevNet Workstation example that would help to become familiar with the environment that…

As a long time MacBook user and of recent years on the M1 using the TouchID system that allows for fingerprint authentication, this is something that I wanted to get to work pretty quickly for myself.

Within Nautobot there are many ways to be able to get the Nautobot environment running.

One observation lately is that Python is moving along quickly with new versions and new EOLs.

I’m going to diverge a small bit from the straight network automation space that I have blogged about primarily and dive a small bit into the world of using Google Earth to help prepare for your golf game.

In my previous post I wrote about a workstation that I was working on building.

Here I’m going to dive into what I’m planning to build out for my next desktop here in 2023.

One of Nautobot’s primary functions is to serve as an IPAM solution.

Hot Take: Newly released (at some point anyway) is Slack Canvas, what looks to be a little bit of on demand wiki, collaboration space, and possibly (based on marketing materials) workflow organizer.

In this post I’m going to dive into a bit more on the Nautobot custom validators.

The Python Poetry is our go to package management system thus far, you can see that in all of the Python projects that Network to Code open sources, such as Nautobot, pyntc, network-importer, and NTC-Templates.

With Nautobot, one of the things that came up was how to work with secrets.

Today I was working to demonstrate how to get started with Nautobot Jobs within the Jobs root of Nautobot.

In this post I dive into more about my migration of the blog site to Hugo static content system.

My Content on Other Sites # Using NetBox as a SoT for Ansible + Diving into Ansible Filters In the video I go over NetBox as your Source of Truth, and walk one through getting started with using Ansible as that Source of Truth.