Wow, it’s been seven years. A lot has happened since the last post: two kids, a move, etc. I left my prior infrastructure director role in 2019 and relocated back to the central coast of California. Continuing my arc from pure operations through DevOps/SRE, I now manage software development teams with ownership ranging from real-time voice routing and conversational messaging to real-time audio transcription. It’s been interesting to approach software development from this side of things, playing on this side of the fence for a while (it’s all shifted left, right?). While I can blame having fun with my family for the lack of posts, it’s also that with the change in role, I didn’t have the same ready technical problems in my day-to-day work. Management is harder to write about, both from the interpersonal relations side of things, but also because I don’t manage teams big enough to maintain anonymity in my writing.
Having minimal free time had me focusing on just the technical iteration of my few side projects and home hosting environment, with no time to document anything, privately or publicly. Finally getting fiber internet (in 2025, despite being less than 50 miles from one of the original 3 ARPA nodes…) has forced me to restructure some of the core components of my home network. Along the way, I’ve run into some problems that I found to be poorly documented, and I wanted to share my findings back to the non-sludge web. I took the time to clean up this blog a bit, removed GA, disqus, and some other invasive/obsolete crap. Also replaced the logo and tweaked the colors a tiny bit, watch out boundless artistic license.