On a recent Nerd Journey episode, we interviewed Mike Burkhart.  As Mike considered what was next for his career, he examined what he wanted his life to be like rather than what he wanted his job /...

When I started commuting long distances for work a couple of years ago, I fell into listening to podcasts instead of music in an attempt to use my time more effectively.  While I may not necessaril...

What happens when you have an idea for a conference talk but don’t have the technical expertise to back it up?  And what if you think the things you plan to do with certain technologies can be done...

When I saw the notification this past Wednesday letting me know the newest episode of Datanauts was available, I was excited.  Then I read the title of the episode and was completely bummed.  If yo...

Several months ago I started building a guide to using VMware documentation that was first a single blog post, launched into a blog series, and then morphed into a presentation at the Boston VMUG U...

Thus far in our series, we’ve successfully shipped pihole.log lines to a Wavefront proxy in AWS EC2 and verified the proxy’s receipt of the logs.  No data from the logs is being passed to Wavefront...

In my last post in this series, it looks like we have everything in place for the Wavefront proxy to receive Pi-hole log data (only sending data from pihole.log for now), but how can we confirmed t...

What do you do when you’re vacationing with family at a theme park?  You get ideas for blog posts, of course.  Well, apparently this is what happens to me on vacation.  This week as we visited Disn...

If you read my last post, there’s a Wavefront proxy running on a Ubuntu server in EC2 ready to collect data, transform it, and send it to Wavefront.   There is a way to create metrics from logs, an...

What would you do if a friend suggested the two of you start a podcast?  That’s exactly what happened to me back in December 2017 right before changing jobs.  When you’ve never helped create or co-...