New blog post: "The systemd age attestation controversy" ➜ monospacementor.com/2026/04/the-... #Commentary #Linux #OpenSourceSoftware

📖 Interesting read: "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI" batsov.com/articles/202... #tool #genai

Is growing your Dev/Ops skills important to you? My no-fluff newsletter has my “Mentor Monologue” column, news from my #DevOps membership community, and a bunch of useful reading recommendations. monospacementor.com/devops-know-...

If you follow my live coding streams, you know that I use neovim as my editor. It does everything I need for system administration, coding and writing. Get a head start and use my configuration: gitlab.com/geewiz/dotfi...

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/omerxx/tmux-... The missing floating pane for Tmux

📖 Interesting read: "Why Your Engineering Team Is Slow (It's the Codebase, Not the People)" piechowski.io/post/codebas... #softwareengineering

Making the most of our work time is important both for our career and our own job satisfaction. But sometimes, we’re losing sight of the bigger picture over productivity methods and metrics. monospacementor.com/2024/05/purp...

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/alexpasmanti... A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder.

Working on Fedora Silverblue introduced me to toolbx and distrobox, two great ways to build isolated shell environments in containers. I highly recommend you give them a try: - containertoolbx.org - distrobox.it

"The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you." (Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!) This is why I run a DevOps/SRE community. ➜ monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

New Basic Linux System Administration post in The Server Room: "Module 8: Shell Scripting" community.monospacementor.com/t/371 If you'd like to benefit from our community's knowledge, join us: monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

New DevOps post in The Server Room: "Where are my keys?" community.monospacementor.com/t/370 If you'd like to benefit from our community's knowledge, join us: monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

📖 Interesting read: "Does Computer Science Still Exist?" davidbau.com/archives/202... #genai

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/jamestomasin... beep is inspired by nullsoft beep and attempts to recreate that magic in Ada

📖 Interesting read: "Git Commit Anatomy" alchemists.io/articles/git... #softwareengineering

📖 Interesting read: "Git Trailers" alchemists.io/articles/git... #softwareengineering

My newsletter, "News From the Server Room", comes with a column on a specific topic, updates from my #DevOps membership community, and links to interesting engineering content. Subscribe for free: monospacementor.com/devops-know-...

#Linux security best practice: Create system user accounts for services that can’t be used for login: `useradd -r -s /sbin/nologin servicename` 🔗 Learn more in my course: monospacementor.com/courses/lins... #Linux #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin

Discover "The Server Room" – your gateway to a supportive community of DevOps professionals. Grow your skills with hot seats, office hours, and collaborative workshops! ➜ monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

"The key to managing dependencies is to control their direction. The road to maintenance nirvana is paved with classes that depend on things that change less often than they do." (Sandi Metz) #Ruby #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

Dublin City Council took up a crucial question this week: how many homes should we build, and where? Building our way out of the housing crisis has to be at the core of our thinking, otherwise the crisis will just roll on.

My lord this is perfect.

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/skwee357/nvi... A simple reading time, and word count plugin for neovim ❤️

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/liba2k/langu... A Neovim plugin for grammar and spell checking using [LanguageTool](languagetool.org)

📖 Interesting read: "The Social Smolnet" ploum.net/2026-03-20-s... #socialmedia

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/geewiz/tinya... An Ada parser library for a useful subset of the YAML spec

📖 Interesting read: "Achieving High Availability with distributed database on Kubernetes at Airbnb" medium.com/airbnb-engin... #devops #database

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/webadderall/... The open-source screen recorder and editor for creating polished walkthroughs, demos, tutorials, and product videos. Add auto-zoom, webcam overlays, cursor animations and more to your screen recordings. An alternative to Screen Studio.

📖 Interesting read: "How We Migrated the Parse API From Ruby to Golang (Resurrected)" charity.wtf/2025/07/24/h... #ruby #golang #softwareengineering

📖 Interesting read: "When code stops being the bottleneck" mailto:reader-forwarded-email/2eb3b91a1db904977bfe6bd23c1ca7e6 #genai #leadership #softwareengineering

Is growing your Dev/Ops skills important to you? My no-fluff newsletter has my “Mentor Monologue” column, news from my #DevOps membership community, and a bunch of useful reading recommendations. monospacementor.com/devops-know-...

Join "The Server Room" – where DevOps professionals come together. Engage in discussions, gain valuable insights, and advance your skills. Start your #DevOps journey with us! ➜ monospacementor.com/devops-learn... #TechCommunity #CareerDevelopment

If you're looking for a more modern alternative to the `du` command that shows you what's taking up your disk space, try `dust`. It returns a graphical overview with percentages, and uses colours to highlight the largest subdirectories. github.com/bootandy/dust

I love the atomic Fedora distributions for their ability to rebase customizations onto a new OS release. Here’s another great benefit: being able to easily pinpoint the release when a regression crept in. enblog.eischmann.cz/2024/02/15/b...

Easy way to kickstart a runbook: Log actions with “history | tail -20 | tee file.md” to capture recent commands, then add explanations. 🔗 Learn more in my course: https://monospacementor.com/courses/linsys-1/#Linuxu#SystemAdministrationo#SysAdminin

"Using positional arguments requires less code today, but you pay for this decrease in volume of code with an increase in the risk that changes will cascade into dependents later." (Sandi Metz) #Ruby #Programming #SoftwareEngineering

Are you just starting your engineering career? And you feel like you don’t belong? Be kind to yourself. It’s probably not Impostor Syndrome. monospacementor.com/2024/05/its-...

New Basic Linux System Administration post in The Server Room: "Lab exercises getting updated" community.monospacementor.com/t/368 If you'd like to benefit from our community's knowledge, join us: monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

New Basic Linux System Administration post in The Server Room: "Module 7: Log Management & Monitoring" community.monospacementor.com/t/367 If you'd like to benefit from our community's knowledge, join us: monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

📖 Interesting read: "Introducing the Zen of DevOps" dev.to/tbeijen/intr...? #devops

There's something about Rust that inspires developers to build modern replacements for traditional Unix/Linux commands. One example is `bat`, a "cat clone with wings". monospacementor.com/2022/01/fsl-...

"How many times have you seen a comment that is out of date? Because comments are not executable, they are merely a form of decaying documentation. If a bit of code inside a method needs a comment, extract that bit into a separate method." (Sandi Metz)

Tip for Linux shell beginners: Execute a second command only if the first one failed. `command_1 || command 2` Background: This compound command uses the result code returned by `command_1` with the "shortcircuit" behaviour of the "logical OR" `||` operator. #Linux #Shell #Terminal

One of the features for which I love Ruby is that it has syntax features that let me express clearly what the intention of my code is. - `unless` instead of `if not` - `until` instead of `while not` - `loop do` instead of `while true` #Ruby #Coding

⭐️ Interesting project: github.com/jlu5/Limnori... Limnoria plugin to announce Slack-style webhooks to IRC

My newsletter, "News From the Server Room", comes with a column on a specific topic, updates from my #DevOps membership community, and links to interesting engineering content. Subscribe for free: monospacementor.com/devops-know-...

The concept of Test-Driven Development isn’t particularly new any more. But even after quite a few years of accompanying my code with tests, TDD is still far from being second nature to me. A talk from RubyHACK 2018 motivated me to get better at it. monospacementor.com/2023/08/test...

Looking to advance your DevOps career? Join "The Server Room" – my community committed to professional growth and knowledge sharing. Hot seats, office hours, workshops led by experienced professionals, and lots of fun! ➜ monospacementor.com/devops-learn...

Almost every Linux CLI tool that requires you to edit a file will consult the `EDITOR` environment variable to spawn the editor you prefer. If you want to use `nano` instead of `vim`, set it as your default editor like this: `export EDITOR=nano`

Linux tip: Use “ss -tuln” to check for open ports. Filter specific port numbers by adding “| grep :80”, for example. 🔗 Learn more in my course: monospacementor.com/courses/lins... #Linux #SystemAdministration #SysAdmin