“Hey. I just got out of a meeting with Lewis.” I groaned inwardly. Lewis was my boss’s boss, and while Lewis was a fantastic human being, meetings with him were usually in the context of projects. Big ones. I put on a fake smile to mask creeping despair. “Oh? How did that go?”
Marketing Docs Are Not Written For Engineers
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Published · UpdatedMarketing words are not for you, the engineer. The dog whistle is blowing at a frequency your ears are not attuned to. These words are meant to entice folks with purchasing authority. Your boss. Or his boss. Or her boss.
I’ll Be At Cisco Live US Las Vegas 2022. See You There?
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I’m attending Cisco Live US 2022 in Las Vegas this June. I’ll be there on the Explorer Pass, crawling the World Of Solutions and chatting with anyone and everyone. If you’ll be there and want to meet up, DM me on Twitter or ping me on LinkedIn.
How To Work With A Sponsor For Your IT Blog
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Published · UpdatedYou’ve got a niche blog where you write as a deeply technical expert in a IT field such as cloud, networking, storage, development, or security. Your audience is made up of fellow nerds in similar orbits. You’ve been writing for years, and have developed a faithful audience who reads most of your stuff. After all this time, a real-deal vendor appears, wanting to place a sponsored blog post on your hallowed site. Now what?
How To Use Grep + Regex To Match Non-200 HTTP Status Codes In Apache Server Logs
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Published · UpdatedLet’s say you want to see the requests Apache is upset about. How do you filter the logs to see every entry that doesn’t have a status code in the 200s? Depending on your Apache LogFormat, you could try…
sudo grep -E ‘\” [1345][01235][0-9] [[:digit:]]{1,8} \”‘ /var/log/apache2/access.log
Can Fantastical Openings Replace Calendly?
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Published · UpdatedAs of August 2, 2022, *maybe* Fantastical Openings can replace Calendly for my scheduling needs. I need a chance to review, but it looks really promising…
Career Advice I’d Give To 20, 30 and 40-Something Year Old Me
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Published · UpdatedA list of career-related maxims easy to consume, but challenging to apply.
How To Fix Ubuntu 18.04 ‘apt update’ Throwing An NGINX Repository i386 Package Error
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Published · UpdatedIf ‘apt update’ on Ubuntu 18.04 throws an error N: Skipping acquire of configured file ‘nginx/binary-i386/Packages’ as repository ‘http://nginx.org/packages/ubuntu bionic InRelease’ doesn’t support architecture ‘i386’, then replace the one line of text in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list with this line instead.
deb [arch=amd64] http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ bionic nginx