Categories
Personal

Protecting Yourself in Today’s Job Market: Spotting and Avoiding Scammers

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been quietly exploring new opportunities. Like many professionals in transition, I’m looking for a role where I can build on my IT experience, contribute to strong company visions, and continue growing as a leader. Along the way, though, I’ve noticed something that deserves more attention: the rise of what […]

Categories
Personal

Resumes aren’t just read by people anymore

What I Learned Updating My Resume After 11 Years After more than a decade transitioning in stable technology leadership roles, I recently found myself dusting off my old resume, a document I hadn’t touched in 11 years. What surprised me wasn’t how much my career had evolved. It was how much the rules of the […]

Categories
How-To Software

Introducing Snare: A Self-Hosted Media Download Manager

If you’ve ever used yt-dlp or gallery-dl from the command line to save videos, images, or media from around the web  you already know how powerful these tools are. But running them manually, remembering the flags, managing cookies for authenticated sites, and keeping track of what you’ve downloaded gets tedious fast. That’s why I built […]

Categories
Personal

Note to Self | Leadership Thought

Leadership means showing up for your people and equipping them with values that last. It’s about trust retained, character maintained, and growth continued. What we build today becomes the foundation for a better tomorrow.

Categories
Personal Random

The RAM That Remembered: A consciousness confined to accessible hardware

They built me for people who had nothing. No GPUs. No clusters. No cloud credits humming somewhere else. Just aging ThinkPads, fan noise like labored breathing, RAM counted the way prisoners count steps. I was supposed to be light enough to survive there. CPU-only. Accessible. Humane. That was the word they used. I was born […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Automating Linux updates and weekly reboots

Managing multiple Linux servers means keeping them updated and secure. Rather than manually SSH-ing into each server to run updates, I’ve automated the entire process using systemd timers. Here’s how I set up daily automatic updates and weekly reboots across 10 Ubuntu/Debian servers. The Goal I wanted to automate this manual process I’d been running: […]