Daniel Stoddart

Don't sleep on high quality programming books.

O'Reilly. Wiley. Addison-Wesley. Manning. MIT. No Starch Press. &c...

Avoid the publishers (not gonna name any names, but #IYKYK) that repackage questionable online content. #Books

bash is still worth studying deeply. It's a big part of the DevOps workflow and you will use it all the time.

Never wanted to learn C++ 👎

Rust, OTOH... 😍

I know it's a hard pill to swallow but I find myself in the same situation. You just have to grind on your own time.

You don't need certifications to get any of those jobs. What you need is a portfolio of relevant projects and showing your work.

Cherry Mx brown still rules

IMHO, AX200 has better long-term support and is less flaky than the MediaTek cards.

If anyone has compared, I'd like to see a breakdown of Linux wifi card support in the range of Beelink and Minisforum PCs.

I think Minisforum recently switched from Intel AX200 to MediaTek MT7921K wireless cards to "meet market demand" and support WiFi 6E.

After $44 billion in investment in only the first half of 2025, 95% of business AI projects fail to deliver any meaningful results.

Don't believe the hype.

YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) Python: The Documentary | An origin story

There's a new documentary about #Python, and it's outstanding.

TFW your solution is better than Claude's

Hearing that the Arch Wiki is down again for US people and probably getting DDoS'd again. Up for me though, probably because I'm getting it from a different mirror

Release v2.0.0 · basecamp/omarchy What changed? Major additions Add new Omarchy ISO online installer using the Omarchy Configurator front-end to archinstall by @Torxed + @dhh + @ryanrhughes + @jardahrazdera + @tahayvr Add new Omar...

In case you missed it, Omarchy is now a legit Linux distro. Congrats to all who made this happen!

You have a severe reading comprehension problem if that was your takeaway.

"Wanting to skip Linux and jump to Kubernetes is like trying to become a surgeon without learning anatomy." ~ @kubecraft.community

Just installed GNU Chess for the first time in...forever

AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old

A lot of blog posts about #AWS are incredibly outdated because it's almost 20 years old, so make sure you're up to date.

It seems obvious but it bears repeating in light of that last WSJ story: nothing replaces "show your work."

"Just one in eight nondegree credentials delivered notable pay gains within a year of completion."

"A lot of credentials are being designed based on a loose understanding of what it takes for somebody to get hired in the field."

"These certificates, digital badges and other nondegree credentials have proliferated as more academic institutions and other providers spot a lucrative business."

"Many credentials don’t provide a pay boost or lead to a career transition."

More Workers Are Getting Job-Skill Certificates. They Often Don’t Pay Off. Many of the thousands of online courses and other credentials employees pursue to boost careers fall short in delivering, a new study finds.

"...most programs deliver few material returns, a new study finds."

Be careful about choosing certifications and credentials. You should definitely be critical in assessing outcomes before signing up for a cert or credential.

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A DevOps-oriented side project worth highlighting: run your workloads in your own Hetzner account. GitOps workflow and reduce infrastructure costs by up to 70%.

The line can be blurry, but generally if you need to install the upstream distribution first and then apply the project's configurations, it's typically considered a config layer rather than a distinct distro.

For instance, Manjaro is Arch-based but maintains its own repositories, has its own release cycle, and provides its own installation process. It's more of a derivative distro rather than just a configuration layer.

IMO, Omarchy falls into the "opinionated configuration" category rather than a true distro b/c it requires you to "install Arch Linux first btw."

Does it make fundamental changes to how the system boots and runs, or just configure existing components?

Also, does it have its own installer that creates a distinct system, or is it applied to an existing installation?

I think the question comes down to technical criteria:

Does it maintain its own repositories and package manager, or rely entirely on an upstream distro's packages? (e.g. Arch, Debian)

Someone asked if #Omarchy is a Linux distro b/c it's not on Distrowatch. So should projects like this be classified as a distro or a configuration layer of sorts?

GPT-5: "I'm going to keep asking you to refine it until something breaks, and then you'll regret talking to me."

I wasn't aware until today that there are more adults that play #Minecraft than kids.