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Thoughts on Platform Engineering, SRE, Kubernetes, Go, and Observability—sharing lessons, tools, stories, and anything else I find interesting!

2025

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant · 12 min
Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering · 5 min

2023

Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production · 15 min

2021

Download a file with PowerShell without specifying its name · 1 min

2020

Creating a VSCode Second Brain · 8 min
Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare · 5 min

2018

Building a Golden Image Pipeline · 6 min
Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project · 7 min
Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code · 5 min
Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking · 11 min

2017

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts · 9 min
Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command · 8 min
Automating Datadog with Terraform · 6 min

2016

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen · 5 min
Best Practices with Packer and Windows · 9 min
Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide · 7 min
5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5 · 8 min
Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana · 11 min
ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell · 14 min

2015

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development · 6 min
The Ultimate Guide to PowerShell String Formatting · 3 min
Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2 · 10 min
Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1 · 7 min

2014

Using PowerShell To Send Metrics To Graphite · 4 min
Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces · 4 min

2012

Fix Timeout Error while mounting a LUN in NetApp SnapDrive · 2 min
How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 2 · 1 min
How To Run VirtualBox on WHS 2001 - Part 1 · 1 min

2010

Resend Reporting Services Email Subscriptions · 1 min
How To Fix Hyper-V Migration Attempt Failed · 3 min

2009

Setting the Critical Battery Action to 'Do Nothing' · 1 min