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OH on slack:
> The world needs more musical post-mortems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p03oO_7sCaY
OH on slack:
> The world needs more musical post-mortems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p03oO_7sCaY
Over a year into seriously job-hunting and it is miserable. I remain stubbornly a generalist #SoftwareEngineer with #Infra background, both close-to-hardware systems and web #DevOps #SRE work. Need US remote or #PDX local, no AI or blockchain.
There doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether #FediHire, #FediHired, or #GetFediHired is the hashtag, so I'll use them all to say: please help me find a job so I can pay the mortgage on my queer misfit den and otherwise provide for myself and my family.
Over a year into seriously job-hunting and it is miserable. I remain stubbornly a generalist #SoftwareEngineer with #Infra background, both close-to-hardware systems and web #DevOps #SRE work. Need US remote or #PDX local, no AI or blockchain.
There doesn't seem to be a consensus on whether #FediHire, #FediHired, or #GetFediHired is the hashtag, so I'll use them all to say: please help me find a job so I can pay the mortgage on my queer misfit den and otherwise provide for myself and my family.
Vous avez raté le dernier meetup #SRE ? Pas de souci !
Le récap et les vidéos sont en ligne : Kubernetes cluster management, GitOps, Kargo et Sveltos & lightning talks autour du projet DORA et du FOSDEM
👉 https://srefrance.org/post/2026-02-02-pre-chauffe-cnd-france/
Vous avez raté le dernier meetup #SRE ? Pas de souci !
Le récap et les vidéos sont en ligne : Kubernetes cluster management, GitOps, Kargo et Sveltos & lightning talks autour du projet DORA et du FOSDEM
👉 https://srefrance.org/post/2026-02-02-pre-chauffe-cnd-france/
System Administration, Week 1: Warmup Exercise 1 - No Space Left On Device
In this video, we try to find out what happens when we run out of disk space as well as how the system behaves when use up all inodes. This is intended as a warmup exercise for our week 2 topic, introducing the concept of disk storage and filesystem behavior.
System Administration, Week 2: Storage Models and Disks
In this video, we'll introduce the larger topic of filesystems and storage. In particular, we'll discuss the conceptual storage models, such as Direct Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), and Cloud Storage.
System Administration, Week 1: AWS Aliases
System Administrators are notoriously lazy, and AWS commands a notoriously lengthy to type. In this video, we demonstrate the use of shell aliases and functions to save ourselves some typing whenever we run AWS EC2 commands.
The aliases and shell functions we use are available here:
https://github.com/jschauma/cloud-functions/blob/main/awsfuncs
System Administration, Week 1: Warmup Exercise 1 - No Space Left On Device
In this video, we try to find out what happens when we run out of disk space as well as how the system behaves when use up all inodes. This is intended as a warmup exercise for our week 2 topic, introducing the concept of disk storage and filesystem behavior.
System Administration, Week 1: Warming up to EC2
In this short video, we prepare for our first homework assignment and demonstrate how to launch a #NetBSD instance in AWS EC2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_pgRH0IDw
Note: the AMI in the video is outdated; I have up to date images listed here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/netbsd-amis.html
Or you can create your own:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html
System Administration, Week 1: AWS Aliases
System Administrators are notoriously lazy, and AWS commands a notoriously lengthy to type. In this video, we demonstrate the use of shell aliases and functions to save ourselves some typing whenever we run AWS EC2 commands.
The aliases and shell functions we use are available here:
https://github.com/jschauma/cloud-functions/blob/main/awsfuncs
System Administration, Week 1: UNIX History
We're borrowing this video from our "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" class to give a brief summary of the history of the UNIX family of operating systems.
System Administration, Week 1: Warming up to EC2
In this short video, we prepare for our first homework assignment and demonstrate how to launch a #NetBSD instance in AWS EC2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_pgRH0IDw
Note: the AMI in the video is outdated; I have up to date images listed here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/netbsd-amis.html
Or you can create your own:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html
System Administration, Week 1: UNIX History
We're borrowing this video from our "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" class to give a brief summary of the history of the UNIX family of operating systems.
I’m currently looking for a full-time or contract work in SRE / DevOps / IT Operations.
Portland, OR. Open to hybrid, on-site, or remote. Willing to relocate to Seattle.
Schedule: Any
Tools: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Splunk, Grafana, BigPanda
CI/CD: Jenkins, Bitbucket, container builds with Docker/Podman, deployments to Openshift.
I have worked as an IT Operations Engineer in enterprise production environments, supporting on-prem VMware (RHEL and Windows) alongside Azure and AWS. My role included on-call rotations and incident command for high-severity outages.
My responsibilities included monitoring, alert triage, and root cause analysis across infrastructure and application layers, coordinating with infrastructure, development, and product teams to isolate failures, restore service, and prevent recurrence.
My focus was developing Python tooling for automation and production support, with Ansible used for routine infrastructure tasks.
I worked extensively with Splunk, Grafana, and BigPanda, building dashboards for investigation, event correlation, and metrics and trends.
Additional experience includes:
Terraform for cloud provisioning and Puppet for configuration enforcement
Network troubleshooting across Cisco and Arista environments
Production database support: Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Postgres
My DM’s are open! Feel free to message me for my resume.
Git: github.com/Aleph0x
Web: https://www.al3f.com
I’m currently looking for a full-time or contract work in SRE / DevOps / IT Operations.
Portland, OR. Open to hybrid, on-site, or remote. Willing to relocate to Seattle.
Schedule: Any
Tools: Python, Bash, PowerShell, Terraform, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Splunk, Grafana, BigPanda
CI/CD: Jenkins, Bitbucket, container builds with Docker/Podman, deployments to Openshift.
I have worked as an IT Operations Engineer in enterprise production environments, supporting on-prem VMware (RHEL and Windows) alongside Azure and AWS. My role included on-call rotations and incident command for high-severity outages.
My responsibilities included monitoring, alert triage, and root cause analysis across infrastructure and application layers, coordinating with infrastructure, development, and product teams to isolate failures, restore service, and prevent recurrence.
My focus was developing Python tooling for automation and production support, with Ansible used for routine infrastructure tasks.
I worked extensively with Splunk, Grafana, and BigPanda, building dashboards for investigation, event correlation, and metrics and trends.
Additional experience includes:
Terraform for cloud provisioning and Puppet for configuration enforcement
Network troubleshooting across Cisco and Arista environments
Production database support: Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, Postgres
My DM’s are open! Feel free to message me for my resume.
Git: github.com/Aleph0x
Web: https://www.al3f.com
This semester, I'm teaching my class on System Administration / Internet Operations once again.
The syllabus and all course materials are available here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/
All videos for the lectures and exercises are public and available for free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/cs615asa/videos
If you want to follow along, I'll be posting lecture videos and related links in this thread throughout the semester.
This semester, I'm teaching my class on System Administration / Internet Operations once again.
The syllabus and all course materials are available here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/
All videos for the lectures and exercises are public and available for free on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/cs615asa/videos
If you want to follow along, I'll be posting lecture videos and related links in this thread throughout the semester.
I've released version 2.2.0 of Exosphere, my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems.
It contains support for SSH connection pipelining, with associated tools to manage their state, as well as an exhaustive polish pass.
Multiple internal systems have been refactored to be much cleaner and easier to maintain.
https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.2.0
#exosphere #linux #unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab #SRE #Python
I've released version 2.2.0 of Exosphere, my patch reporting program for remote UNIX systems.
It contains support for SSH connection pipelining, with associated tools to manage their state, as well as an exhaustive polish pass.
Multiple internal systems have been refactored to be much cleaner and easier to maintain.
https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere/releases/tag/v2.2.0
#exosphere #linux #unix #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab #SRE #Python
