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Surgery Day and the Aftermath

Well, the day has come and gone. On January 17, 2025, I underwent Mohs micrographic surgery at Sonterra Dermatology with Dr. James Neiner. Spoiler alert: I’m still here, and the cancer is gone (hopefully for good). The Procedure * It was straightforward and done under local anesthesia. I was wide

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I Have Cancer

I never thought I’d be writing about my own health like this, but here we are. As the clickbait-style title implies, I’ve recently been diagnosed with skin cancer, a Basal Cell Carcinoma on the left side of my face, near my nose. It’s been a whirlwind of

One Year Back at the Rack

Today is my one year anniversary back at Rackspace. A year ago, I walked back through the doors of Rackspace, ready to embark on a new chapter of my career. Returning to where I had already spent significant time was both familiar and stimulating. Still, the challenges ahead were clear:

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Teleport Application Containers

Teleport is a fantastic tool that gives users incredible functionality, even in the "community" releases. One such feature is the ability to use Teleport for application access, and in this post, we'll use Teleport agents to provide application access to OpenStack resources. Background If you'

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Gateway API for Teleport K8S

If you've been reading some of my mutterings for a bit you know I run Teleport and love it. Over the past couple of years I've been running Teleport within my OpenStack cloud and while that's been great, I've wanted to push

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Intel iGPU Setup for vGPU use in OpenStack

Intel SR-IOV for Xe, Xe-LPG, and Xe-HPC is powerful and can be used within OpenStack with ease. The setup requires some configuration on your hypervisors and the Intel Datacenter Graphics Driver; however, in just a few steps, systems can be extended to support Virtual Graphics Processing Units without much effort

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Woefull USB in NixOS

So, I needed to create a Windows 11 bootable USB stick for my desktop PC (gaming system I'm reinstalling), and all I had was my Zombie X1 running NixOS 24.11 because of other poor life choices. Nothing says "I love a challenge" like using a

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Cloudy NixOS (OpenStack)

Recently, I decided to go down the journey of running things with NixOS. While I started with my laptop, I naturally decided to make my workspace problems part of my cloud adventure. So I figured I'd share my adventure along with my initial process for getting NixOS into

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Confessions of a Cloud

Someone Save Us from Our Cloudy Judgments Here I am, sitting before a digital abyss, armed with nothing but a questionable sense of humor and journaling (yes with real paper, you wouldn't understand). I've been reading a lot lately and thinking about my life choices. Sadly,

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OpenStack’s Phoenix Act: (re)Rising from today's cloud ashes

In the grand theatre of cloud computing, where titans clash, and the audience (cloud operators) get to deal with the aftermath, a plot twist has recently unfolded that could be straight out of a daytime soap opera. Enter stage left: Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has thrown a wrench into

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New Game Plus - Resurgence: (re)taking the cloud by storm

It's been a couple months, so I'm checking in to talk about how NG+ at Rackspace has been going, things I've learned, where some issues have been, and alluding to where we're going as this next chapter gets underway.  * Yes, the cloud

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New Game Plus - Rackspace

So I've once again decided to pivot, this time bringing things back home, back to the Cloud, back to where my professional career began - Rackspace. Over the past 18 months, I've been working with Figment, a fantastic startup building Web3 infrastructure. While my team at

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Working my Workspace

So you're here about my home office and a picture of a desk, or maybe you're curious how I smashed four computers into one workspace without creating a mess? Maybe you want to know why anyone would want to use four computers? Maybe you've

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Teleport for Ansible with ARA

This post aims to highlight the power of Teleport applications and show how it can massively simplify life by providing access to centralized collaborative systems which are otherwise inaccessible. If you're wondering what ARA is I recommend reading up on it. The TL;DR is ARA Records Ansible

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ARA for Debian

Are you ready for a quick post on how to deploy ARA on a Debian 11 server? Of course you are, you SuperChadGPT, leetcode, automaton. To bring the miracle of ARA to life we'll reach down in the primordial package manager to setup MariaDB and Gunicorn; a perfect

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Teleport Application for Unifi

Welcome to the world of remote work, where every day feels like a never-ending nightmare. But fear not! With the power of Teleport and its application gateway, you can make being trapped in a dark windowless room, fun. While Teleport is an incredible server access tool, it can also be

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Our Ghost has Migrated

Today marks day one of no longer running my own cloud infrastructure. This is the first time in more than a decade where I'm public cloud free. I've decided to declutter myself and pushed everything local or to managed solutions. In terms of my blog, we&

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Mitogen and Teleport Ansible

If you've read my post covering the marriage between Teleport and Ansible, It's only natural that you think, how do we make it fast, more capable, moar better? Mitogen is the answer; we use Mitogen to make our deployments sing. TL;DR * Run Mitogen. It works.

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Teleport Driven Ansible Dynamic Inventory

While there are a million ways to build Ansible inventory, what if we could build inventory using open-source access systems and not have to main multiple sources of truth?

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Shure MV7 Windscreen Tests

Running a quick windscreen test to see what the sound differences are with the Shure MV7 using the stock foam windscreen versus an "upgraded" RK345 windscreen (normally found on the Shure SM7b). Background I've recently been doing all kinds of things with audio for my home

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Fixing The Blue Compass Boom Arm

The Blue Compass is a fantastic tube-style broadcast microphone boom arm with one major flaw, the handles are made from cheap plastic and will break with use. If you have a Blue Compass and one of your plastic handles has broken off making it impossible to tighten and secure your

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We're Affiliated, Now What?

As of 24 February, 2021, the Requiem has officially been affiliated. So first and foremost, thank you all for helping make this happen. Whether you're stopping by and saying "hi" or following the channel, our momentum is made possible by you. So, what does all this

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Making Sourdough Waffles

This recipe is used to make sourdough waffles, from scratch, using a recently feed sourdough starter. Ingredients * 142 Grams all-purpose flour * 28 Grams granulated sugar * 1 teaspoon baking powder * 1 teaspoon salt * 2 eggs * 170 Grams milk * 226 Grams sourdough starter * 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter (melted) Instruction 1. In a

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Live Gamer Duo: It's Two Times Better Than It Should Be

When I started my stream, I knew I needed a capture card; however, I had no idea which capture-card I needed. I did some googling and found that USB connected capture cards were the most recommended devices on the internet and everything came down to either the Elgato HD60s or

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Multi-Streaming with Windows, built on the WSL for FREE

Getting Started To accomplish this mission you'll need to install the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I will not be covering the install process here, it is well documented by Microsoft, and is really a matter of running basically 3 commands. note for WSL version 2 (recommended) you