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Infra Cloud DevOps AI Self-hosting Homelab Tech watch

self-hosted September 30, 2026 5 min read

Statup: an open-source status page to announce outages and updates

Outages, maintenance, updates: Statup is an open-source, self-hosted status page where every team keeps everyone informed, in one place.

aws September 14, 2026 4 min read

How I passed the AWS Solutions Architect certification in one month

A write-up of my AWS SAA-C03 prep: Maarek's course, Obsidian notes cleaned up by Claude, custom mock exams and a homemade tracker.

ai August 28, 2026 5 min read

The workflow that might (just might) land me a job

Job hunting in Dublin without spending every evening on it, and without missing openings: the problem I tried to solve.

linux August 6, 2026 8 min read

Group Policy on Linux: what exists, and a look at Bor

Enforcing configuration policies continuously across a Linux fleet, is that even possible? A tour of the existing tools, and a closer look at Bor.

terraform July 29, 2026 13 min read

Terraform on vSphere: IaC Is Not Just for the Cloud

Deploying VMs with Terraform on a vCenter, yes it works and it works well. A look back at how I discovered Infrastructure as Code in a VMware environment.

Network operations crisis room at night, teams of engineers facing a wall of screens during the Januscape patching campaign

virtualization July 21, 2026 7 min read

Patching a million VMs in a week: OVH's Januscape story

OVH had to patch its whole KVM fleet in a hurry after a critical flaw. A look at a fascinating write-up: canary, stop thresholds, anti-affinity and very real headaches.