Returning to History

This VUCA Decade

H1 2023 Reading List

Since late Spring, the tech world has been caught up by AI and I’ve not been immune to this trend, spending every spare minute to learn…

DevOps Resume Differentiators and Pitfalls (or, why I don’t care about all the tools you have used…

I’ve seen way more resumes than ChatGPT

Austin Before the Bust (Millennial Edition)

Two decades ago, we lived in a small three-bedroom house in North Central Austin less than ten minutes drive from Top Notch.

“Top Ten” Vulnerabilities in Cloud and Cyber Security Resumes

Hiring for security and cloud roles over the past decade, I’ve seen a ton of resumes — probably over ten-thousand. At the moment, I am…

What I learned reviewing 46 Detection Engineering resumes in 100 minutes (and why I only picked 6)

Experience & Leveling Bias

Final 2022 Reading List

I missed Summer and Fall this year, but I have definitedly been reading. It has been that kind of year, with so many changes on multiple…

A Quick Bad Take on AWS PrivateLink Service Endpoints

Back when I was a kid…

Spring 2022 Reading List

We are in another COVID dip. Things almost seem normal two years later.

Almost Fall 2021 Reading List

We are a few weeks into the tenuous time of life outside the bubble, with two kids (albeit both vaccinated) back on school buses and one…

Summer Raspberry Pi NSM Update (Slipping into NATS JetStream)

Earlier this year, I blogged about a Raspberry Pi NSM setup that used Suricata and Benthos to stream IDS events to Kafka or SQS. Although I…

In Between Days (no, not that song by The Cure)

This afternoon I swung by the office for the second time this year. The security guard didn’t think my joke about “my badge actually…