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Today marks the v0.1.0 release of the Packer Plugin for Artifactory, my first standalone Packer plugin.

Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere v2.3.0 was released on 03 August 2026!

An original murder ballad, inspired by the traditional folk songs “Poor Ellen Smith” and “Two Sisters” !!!

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{ align=right width=150 .skip-lightbox } I recently wrapped up work on an Ansible collection I developed for a customer through my role at Broadcom.

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90s country music takes me back to Saturday mornings in Southwest Georgia, when my dad, my brother, and I would climb into an old two-toned orange and white ...

{ align=right width="200" .skip-lightbox } Some engineering teams hit the same friction eventually: A new developer clones the repository, follows the setup instructions, and spends the next two hours debugging why the toolchain that works on everyone els…

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is how an AI client asks for context instead of waiting for you to shuttle it in.

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If your API ships an OpenAPI spec, OpenAPI Generator can build the Python client from it.

If the Circle of Fifths has always looked like one of those theory diagrams everyone swears is important but no one actually explains, you're not alone.

The command line is still the fastest way to script power state, disks, snapshots, and guest operations on with VMware Fusion (macOS) and **VMware Workst...

requests earned its reputation honestly.

If you've ever felt trapped inside the classic minor pentatonic box, you're not alone.

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Nginx ends up in front of a surprising amount of web traffic.

VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro 26H1 shipped recently and was a fairly quiet release.