Productivity
2025-12-15Why I'm Starting with a Zwift Ride Instead of a Real Bike
I’ve been putting off adding cycling to my fitness routine for months. This week I finally pulled the trigger — but not on the bike I expected. …
2025-11-17The Unexpected System That Landed Me A $150K DevOps Job
When I was coming up in my career, I spent dozens of hours every week watching video courses about Kubernetes. When someone asked me what a CNI was …
2025-10-13The system I used to quit drugs works for DevOps too
A student of mine quit his job to go full-time on his DevOps career change. Three weeks later, he was playing video games instead of studying. Here’s …
- 2025-06-23
How I Learned DevOps Faster Than Anyone Expected
🔥 2 Fresh DevOps Jobs PayPal - Senior DevOps Engineer - $123K-213K CLS US Services - DevOps Engineer - $180K-200K “How did you transition …
- 2025-06-13
The $200K DevOps Engineer VS The $80K DevOps Engineer (What's the Difference?)
🔥 2 Fresh Remote SRE JobsGovOS – $120,000–$130,000 Junior Site Reliability Engineer (fully remote, U.S. only) Experian – $80,237–$139,077 …
- 2025-06-03
The CV mistake that gets DevOps engineers rejected
Quick question: Have you ever sent out dozens of CVs and heard… nothing? You’re not alone. I’ve seen brilliant engineers with strong …
- 2025-05-20
What they don't teach you in DevOps bootcamps
You can’t YAML your way into your next role. I learned this the hard way when I watched talented engineers with impressive tech skills get …
- 2024-09-06
Running iCloud Web as a Desktop Application on Arch Linux with Hyprland
Now that I’m daily driving Arch Linux again, I’ve been thinking about how to handle my tasks. I use Apple Reminders because the iWatch …
- 2024-07-28
No More GitHub - My Updated Backup Setup For My Obsidian Zettelkasten
I relied on iCloud sync for my Obsidian backup for many years. However, my vault has grown significantly and has reached nearly 3500 notes. This leads …
- 2024-01-21
Video: My Entire Neovim + Tmux Workflow As A DevOps Engineer On MacOS
I’ve just released a comprehensive video delving deep into my Neovim setup and command-line centric workflow. This video is a response to the …
- 2023-08-23
Azure Exams Are Open Book Exams From Now On
From here on out you can access Microsoft Learn during the exams. This is great news! This is much more like the actual experience of an …
- 2023-05-01
The Power of Writing
Ah, writing. It’s one of the skills that I’ve consistently been praised for throughout my life. I’m pretty good at it, and I think …
- 2023-04-27
Video: How To Read The News From The Command Line
I use RSS feeds to read the news, and I use Newsboat as a RSS reader. To in stall on MacOS: brew install newsboat Integrate in already existing …
- 2023-04-27
How To Check The Weather From The Command Line
For the past few months I’ve been using this neat API to check the weather from the command line. It’s very simple to use. Simply run: …
- 2023-04-02
Podcast Notes: Dopamine and Motivation - Huberman
Dopamine Listened to an interesting podcast on Dopamine by Andrew Huberman. I always enjoy his content because he is completely driven by science, not …
- 2023-04-01
Exercise Stimulates Creativity And Motivation
I noticed multiple times now that during my workouts my mind is generating lots of new ideas for coding projects or blog posts. It is a well known …
2023-03-27My Neovim Zettelkasten: How I Take Notes in Markdown Using Vim and Bash
I used to make all my notes on paper, but I decided to switch to a digital note-taking system about two years ago. Digital note-taking provides the …
2023-03-26How to Run Newsboat in Zenmode
To read the news free from distractions and ads I use Newsboat as a reader for RSS feeds. However, one thing that annoyed me was that it would span …
- 2023-03-23
Trying out pandoc for vim
I do all of my writing in markdown. I keep my diaries in my Second Brain, I constantly write notes on the topics I’m studying, and my entire …
- 2023-03-18
Running Docker and Kubernetes on Mac M2
The past few days I’ve been trying out a few options to run Docker containers and a Kubernetes clusters on my new MacBook Pro M2. Unfortunately …
- 2023-02-24
New Laptop: Moving to MacOS
My new employer kindly sponsored me with a new 16-inch MacBook Pro M2. I chose 32GB Ram and the base model with 12 CPU and 19 GPU cores and 1TB of …
- 2023-02-24
Controlling Apple Music with hotkeys from anywhere on MacOS
I’m a little obsessed with controlling everything with my keyboard. That’s why I loved AwesomeWM so much on my Arch Linux setup, I hardly …
- 2023-01-14
I passed the AZ-400 DevOps Expert today
I’m typing this 30 minutes after I passed my AZ-400 exam. I’m sitting in a lovely cafe on Leidseplein in Amsterdam and feel relieved. …
- 2023-01-13
The Pomodoro technique has won me over
I did a lot of studying last year, and I achieved a few tough certifications. I’ve always been good at studying and never struggled with getting …
- 2023-01-04
Fall in love with sed.
Sed, it’s so powerful. I remember I struggled with finding practical uses for it when I did my LPIC-1 certification. But now I find myself using …
- 2023-01-03
How This Blog is Created, Written and Hosted
As I alluded to in my article about Obsidian, I am very fond of editing my text in neovim. Naturally, if you want to edit in neovim, you need to have …
2023-01-01Obsidian: A Note Taking App For DevOps Engineers
As a DevOps or Cloud engineer, you work with many different technologies daily. Therefore, a good engineer needs a solid foundation in Linux, a lot of …
