I'm in the midst of a tectonic career shift, from being laid off from a position and place I loved, to another gig while I keep looking for another unicorn role like before.
So most of my project work is home-based, after years of being able to chase (and execute) dreams at work.
On the technology front, I'm finally investing in a proper network core for home. WiFi 7 AP, 2.5Gig core, PoE everywhere, zone-based firewall. Still mapping out DHCP scopes and VLANs, but once that's done it'll be moving on to proper IoT and Home Assistant build-outs to prepare for the Unfolded Circle 3 later this summer. Also looking to redo my two N100 hypervisors off Proxmox and back to RHEL + Cockpit, or some other Linux + KVM implementation; from there, it's all about Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. Really just a lot of oft-postponed side projects because I had amazing fulfillment at work, that I suddenly have ample time for now.
Outside of the tech stuff, I'm still trying to get some decent photos of two local birds of prey that have been hunting in my neighborhood. They seemingly spite me by only showing themselves when I don't have my camera with me, but dangit, I will photograph them.
On the writing front, I've got a few topics jostling around in drafts: speculating on potential futures of LLMs, the internet as a psychohazard, and a series of "fundamentals" to try and teach my non-techie circles more about how computers and the internet work, so they can do some modest self-hosting and get off centralized services. I'll likely dovetail some of them with my own home projects, writing them alongside the documentation as I make progress.
So most of my project work is home-based, after years of being able to chase (and execute) dreams at work.
On the technology front, I'm finally investing in a proper network core for home. WiFi 7 AP, 2.5Gig core, PoE everywhere, zone-based firewall. Still mapping out DHCP scopes and VLANs, but once that's done it'll be moving on to proper IoT and Home Assistant build-outs to prepare for the Unfolded Circle 3 later this summer. Also looking to redo my two N100 hypervisors off Proxmox and back to RHEL + Cockpit, or some other Linux + KVM implementation; from there, it's all about Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform. Really just a lot of oft-postponed side projects because I had amazing fulfillment at work, that I suddenly have ample time for now.
Outside of the tech stuff, I'm still trying to get some decent photos of two local birds of prey that have been hunting in my neighborhood. They seemingly spite me by only showing themselves when I don't have my camera with me, but dangit, I will photograph them.
On the writing front, I've got a few topics jostling around in drafts: speculating on potential futures of LLMs, the internet as a psychohazard, and a series of "fundamentals" to try and teach my non-techie circles more about how computers and the internet work, so they can do some modest self-hosting and get off centralized services. I'll likely dovetail some of them with my own home projects, writing them alongside the documentation as I make progress.