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The modern corporate state exhorts us and twists the idea of virtue.

In my research on John Boyd, I came across a discussion of Strategy and Tactics that is worth revisiting as it applies to IT leadership.

I’m running GNS3 on Proxmox.

A shell is a tool used to execute commands in an operating systems.

Proxmox Virtual Edition (PVE) PVE is a hypervisor that supports LXC containers and full virtual machines.

Distro run-down This article summarizes my experiences and organizes my thoughts around Linux as of late 2025.

The problem Spectrum was in my neighborhood, extending their cable network finally.

Ridding Yourself of Annoying Calendar Pop-ups on Linux Gnome will prompt for email accounts, and then tie in alerts from your calendar.

I built an Ubuntu server for work and then had to add a group of co-workers.

Recently I had to rebuild my desktop.

One of the guys on Jupiter Broadcasting spoke about a curl-able business card and I thought, “Gotta try it”.

I recently had a lot of fun building a quick program to pull data from Jira Cloud and produce Word reports.

Two months ago, I warned of issues with the 5.35 driver Since the initial post, I tried 5.35 after a rev and found that it worked well.

I’m going to wander into some concepts from my day job.

Home Dashboards Home web dashboards serve as a “starting point” for web sessions.

Exporting Markdown Most of my writing is in markdown in two applications - Visual Studio Code (where I write blog posts amoung other things) and Obsidian.

Cool Extension The Activities Workspace Name allows you to change the “Activities” label in the top left of a Gnome desktop to reflect a name for each workspace.

I found a fun addition to my command line - wttr.in.

In the course of building out a small program the other day, I realized that my version of Python was lagging behind. python -V Python 3.8.17 My setup I’m running Pop!

I wrote about Ahrefs a month ago.

My friends know that I am an avid reader and that I love Science Fiction.

I’ve been writing in this space for about three years.

A little bit of fun today.

I use Obsidian as a note taking journal, but I get a lot of documents in other formats that I’d like to include in that journal.

My previous post dealt with building an easy way to convert Word files to Markdown and automatically incorporate them in Obsidian.

Hah!

What is the best way to be truly anonymous online?

I’ve covered a few items in recent months around my home network, including using Tailscale as a VPN overlay and setting up a home DNS server.

Incorporating blog articles in Obsidian Most of my writing occurs in two places, but I’d like to consolidate it into my “second brain”.

In the course of another project, I recently worked out how to send email through Gmail from the Linux shell.

ChatGPT is all the rage these days.

Not sure where to classify this discovery - Carbonyl is a shell-based brower that is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

If you have a private name server at home, use “home.arpa” I’ve used IPs for most of my home networking for a while.

Goodhard’t law is a good example of why we say management is an art.

I’ve created a seperate site - Stewart.tc - to house my book reviews, discoveries, and thoughts on non-Internet subjects.

Thirty five years ago (!)

I’ve heard good things about Nextcloud for a long time and finally decided to take the plunge.

Pop!

I’ve recently written about using Obsidian - an intro, a discussion of tasks and add-ins, and a discussion of dataview.

If you support IT infrastructure, the goal is to minimize issues (particularly issues with big impacts).

I grab onto quotes.

OS Hopping update I’ve confessed in this blog to being a distro hopper.

This article is the third I’ve written on Obsidian.

Hashicorp makes some cool tools for playing in the cloud or a virtualized environment, especially if you want to build out an Infrastructure as Code approach and make infrastructure updates a CI process.

I’m interested in TailScale.

Obsidian has been a great way to organize my work and my personal activities.

In Part 1, I introduced you to Obsidian.

I’ve kept notes using a lot of different tools over the years.

Flash was a technology to extend the functionality of websites past what was possible with HTML at the time.

An upcoming article features some basic math, but rendering it in markdown is unaesthetic.