Archive

2024  3

July  1

Data Deception: OSI’s Open Source AI Fallacy

July 23, 2024 · 3 min · Chris Short

June  1

Kubernetes Likely Saved My Life

June 6, 2024 · 15 min · Chris Short

May  1

Folding for Lucy

May 15, 2024 · 4 min · Chris Short

2023  3

December  1

The Weary Parents Guide to Buying a Nintendo Switch

December 13, 2023 · 8 min · Chris Short

June  1

The most annoying 1Password error after Mac Migration

June 17, 2023 · 4 min · Chris Short

February  1

Life after DevOps’ish

February 20, 2023 · 10 min · Chris Short

2022  9

October  1

Container Conundrum: DevOpsDays Chicago 2022 Open Space Notes

October 8, 2022 · 3 min · Chris Short

August  2

Windows 11: How to Install WSL2 and Linux Distros

August 18, 2022 · 4 min · Chris Short

Intro to eBPF

August 4, 2022 · 5 min · Chris Short

July  2

Lessons in Frugality: Why Pay for Linktree?

July 11, 2022 · 6 min · Chris Short

code-server, Caddy, Tailscale, and Hugo = My ultimate dev environment

July 2, 2022 · 9 min · Chris Short

June  2

Conway’s Law and GitOps

June 20, 2022 · 3 min · Chris Short

Lucas Käldström and Chris Short Talk Kubernetes, Physics, and more

June 6, 2022 · 22 min · Chris Short

January  2

Moving off Spotify

January 29, 2022 · 4 min · Chris Short

2021 Learnings, 2022 Expectations

January 8, 2022 · 17 min · Chris Short

2021  9

December  1

GitOps: An implementation of DevOps

December 6, 2021 · 5 min · Chris Short

October  2

Joining Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service team

October 25, 2021 · 5 min · Chris Short

Having a status page forced Comcast to fix my internet

October 5, 2021 · 6 min · Chris Short

September  2

From git submodule to Hugo Modules using Netlify

September 27, 2021 · 2 min · Chris Short

Updated: My three favorite macOS screensavers

September 25, 2021 · 3 min · Chris Short

April  1

Insufficient HTTPS coverage on your site: What does that mean?

April 26, 2021 · 4 min · Chris Short

March  2

Reader question: What are your favorite cultural shifts from the last year (and more)

March 29, 2021 · 5 min · Chris Short

Named Key Opinion Leader, Kubernetes Influencer, and (accidentally) Red Hat CEO by Onalytica

March 10, 2021 · 2 min · Chris Short

January  1

Desk Setup, January 2021

January 31, 2021 · 8 min · Chris Short

2020  11

December  1

2020 Learnings, 2021 Expectations

December 30, 2020 · 16 min · Chris Short

November  1

On the Passing of Dan Kohn

November 7, 2020 · 3 min · Chris Short

October  2

Fear and Loathing in YAML

October 21, 2020 · 5 min · Chris Short

Does this make Max and I Disney Princesses?

October 11, 2020 · 1 min · Chris Short

July  1

The AWS bill heard around the world

July 26, 2020 · 10 min · Chris Short

June  2

Live streaming on OpenShift.tv and some lessons learned

June 24, 2020 · 4 min · Chris Short

Talking Operators with Rob Zehicle on L8ist Sh9y Podcast

June 15, 2020 · 31 min · Chris Short

March  1

Things no one tells you when you start a newsletter

March 24, 2020 · 6 min · Chris Short

February  1

Open Source Initiative Board of Directors 2020

February 26, 2020 · 4 min · Chris Short

January  2

Kubernetes Illustrated Children’s Guide

January 26, 2020 · 2 min · Chris Short

2019 Learnings, 2020 Expectations

January 1, 2020 · 16 min · Chris Short

2019  16

December  1

A getting to know you exercise

December 20, 2019 · 4 min · Chris Short

October  3

DevOpsDays Detroit 2019 Trip Report

October 26, 2019 · 5 min · Chris Short

DevOpsDays Raleigh 2019 Trip Report

October 16, 2019 · 3 min · Chris Short

AnsibleFest Atlanta 2019 Trip Report

October 14, 2019 · 5 min · Chris Short

September  3

Tactical efficiency does not replace strategic efficacy

September 29, 2019 · 3 min · Chris Short

Seth Vargo says hell no—puts Chef on ICE

September 22, 2019 · 3 min · Chris Short

Your 39 bps matters more than you think

September 10, 2019 · 4 min · Chris Short

August  1

Joining forces with OpenShift

August 18, 2019 · 5 min · Chris Short

July  2

Use The Force, Larry: Oracle Playing Politics with Nation’s Defense

July 29, 2019 · 8 min · Chris Short

How to Teach Old Apps New Tricks with Ansible-based Operators (Parts 1 & 2)

July 19, 2019 · 2 min · Chris Short

June  1

Upstream vs Downstream

June 25, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

May  1

The Secret to Kubernetes Secrets

May 28, 2019 · 3 min · Chris Short

January  4

subtweet

January 19, 2019 · 2 min · Chris Short

c14s for Short

January 8, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

Shrug

January 7, 2019 · 1 min · Chris Short

I’m a Red Hat Certified Specialist: Ansible Automation

January 7, 2019 · 3 min · Chris Short

2018  28

December  2

2018 Learnings, 2019 Expectations

December 28, 2018 · 13 min · Chris Short

My KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2018 Recap

December 21, 2018 · 13 min · Chris Short

November  2

‘Tis the Season of Family Tech Support

November 20, 2018 · 7 min · Chris Short

One Fish, Two Fish, Blue Fish Sporting New Red Hat

November 2, 2018 · 11 min · Chris Short

August  1

The Importance of Psychological Safety

August 8, 2018 · 4 min · Chris Short

July  1

Military Phrases For Use in DevOps

July 23, 2018 · 5 min · Chris Short

June  4

Joining Ansible Team at Red Hat

June 25, 2018 · 5 min · Chris Short

Baltimore Go June Meeting - Go to the Rescue: Saving DevOps from TLS Turmoil

June 8, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

DevNationFederal 2018: DevOps is Not War

June 7, 2018 · 2 min · Chris Short

DevOpsDays Toronto 2018: What the Military Taught Me About DevOps

June 1, 2018 · 2 min · Chris Short

May  4

ChefConf 2018: DevOps is Not War

May 29, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

Being a Veteran in Today’s America

May 27, 2018 · 5 min · Chris Short

Writing Technical Articles

May 25, 2018 · 4 min · Chris Short

DevOps Hiring Guide

May 16, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

April  4

Detroit Kubernetes: Kubernetes Cron Jobs

April 30, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

AWS Michigan: Heaven is Not a Cloud

April 30, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

DevOpsDays Atlanta 2018: DevOps is Not War

April 19, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

Microsoft Has Come a Long Way

April 16, 2018 · 7 min · Chris Short

February  4

DevOpsDays Charlotte 2018 Ignite Talk on Go

February 28, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

Open Source 101 Raleigh 2018

February 19, 2018 · 3 min · Chris Short

Kubernetes: Cron Jobs

February 14, 2018 · 6 min · Chris Short

Orchestructure January 2018 Meetup

February 1, 2018 · 2 min · Chris Short

January  6

Chris Short named Cloud Native Ambassador

January 31, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

LinkedIn Mentor Monday Detroit

January 25, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

DevOpsDays NYC 2018 Ignite Talk on Golang

January 19, 2018 · 1 min · Chris Short

Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster

January 17, 2018 · 7 min · Chris Short

My New Home is SJ Technologies

January 9, 2018 · 3 min · Chris Short

What I Learned in 2017

January 1, 2018 · 4 min · Chris Short

2017  23

December  3

Docker, Inc is Dead

December 30, 2017 · 6 min · Chris Short

Miscarriage: A Culture of Silence Helps No One

December 23, 2017 · 4 min · Chris Short

Notes on Running a Newsletter: A Year of DevOps’ish

December 2, 2017 · 3 min · Chris Short

November  2

Kubernetes: Getting Started

November 30, 2017 · 3 min · Chris Short

Leaving Bankrate

November 13, 2017 · 3 min · Chris Short

October  3

All Things Open 2017: DevOps README

October 27, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

Video: DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017

October 11, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

DevOpsDays Raleigh 2017: The Dark Side of DevOps

October 5, 2017 · 2 min · Chris Short

September  1

DevOps README.md

September 27, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

August  1

Chilling Effect of Google Manifesto

August 6, 2017 · 4 min · Chris Short

July  1

Testing Certificate Chains in Go

July 22, 2017 · 5 min · Chris Short

June  3

The Open Organization Guide to IT Culture Change

June 6, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

Breaking Encryption Won’t Make Us Safer

June 5, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

Leaving North Carolina

June 1, 2017 · 5 min · Chris Short

May  2

A Night of DevOps at Open Source South Carolina

May 30, 2017 · 1 min · Chris Short

“Good SysAdmin to DevOps Engineer in Six Months”

May 11, 2017 · 8 min · Chris Short

March  1

The Dark Side of DevOps

March 10, 2017 · 7 min · Chris Short

February  2

Why I’m Giving Up Content Blockers

February 9, 2017 · 5 min · Chris Short

Recent Accomplishments

February 3, 2017 · 2 min · Chris Short

January  4

Find EC2 Instances That Are Missing Tags

January 26, 2017 · 2 min · Chris Short

GitLab Annoyance: Private to Public Repos

January 23, 2017 · 2 min · Chris Short

Military Lessons Applied to DevOps: Operation Eagle Claw

January 18, 2017 · 3 min · Chris Short

What I Learned in 2016

January 1, 2017 · 3 min · Chris Short

2016  23

December  2

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license

December 11, 2016 · 14 min · Chris Short

Triangle DevOps: What The Military Taught Me About DevOps

December 2, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

November  1

NTP: I Need You to Go Ahead and Love It

November 2, 2016 · 9 min · Chris Short

October  4

DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lines

October 31, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

The Demise of Google Fiber and Internet Under Dirt

October 30, 2016 · 3 min · Chris Short

What The Military Taught Me About DevOps

October 13, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

Notes on PagerDuty

October 5, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

September  3

User Management with Ansible

September 27, 2016 · 3 min · Chris Short

Notorious Remixes

September 14, 2016 · 3 min · Chris Short

Ansible lineinfile be damned

September 6, 2016 · 4 min · Chris Short

August  1

Technical Debt and the Ongoing Battle Against It

August 9, 2016 · 4 min · Chris Short

July  2

What Does Yahoo’s Downfall Teach Us?

July 26, 2016 · 5 min · Chris Short

FBI Issues Notice Regarding Pokemon GO

July 20, 2016 · 2 min · Chris Short

June  6

Take Ownership; “Plant Your Flag”

June 28, 2016 · 4 min · Chris Short

Permanently Remove Any Record of a File From git

June 25, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

Understanding, Fear, and Hate

June 21, 2016 · 4 min · Chris Short

Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac

June 9, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

My Mac OS X Setup Guide

June 8, 2016 · 2 min · Chris Short

GNU sed on Mac OS X

June 1, 2016 · 2 min · Chris Short

May  2

Poorly Documented Dependencies

May 23, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

Tangible Intangibles: Questions to Ask While Being Interviewed

May 10, 2016 · 4 min · Chris Short

April  1

Got Badlock? Ansible Can Help

April 12, 2016 · 1 min · Chris Short

February  1

Yubikey 4 Nano Demands Use of yubiswitch

February 27, 2016 · 2 min · Chris Short

2015  7

October  6

Disabling Mac OS X El Capitan System Integrity Protection

October 13, 2015 · 2 min · Chris Short

LastPass Sells Out to LogMeIn

October 9, 2015 · 3 min · Chris Short

Mac OS X El Capitan and Junos Pulse

October 6, 2015 · 1 min · Chris Short

What’s Wrong with Microsoft’s Windows 10 Marketing

October 6, 2015 · 2 min · Chris Short

Mac OS X El Capitan: Keychain Issues

October 5, 2015 · 2 min · Chris Short

An Annoying MySQL Replication Error Code: 1045

October 5, 2015 · 1 min · Chris Short

September  1

Grep Multiple Ansible Vault Files

September 22, 2015 · 1 min · Chris Short

2013  3

September  1

Tim Tebow seen working out on a USC baseball field

September 19, 2013 · 1 min · Chris Short

June  1

Tiny Tiny RSS: Loathe the Asshole Devs

June 1, 2013 · 2 min · Chris Short

May  1

Install VirtualBox Guest Additions via Command Line

May 3, 2013 · 1 min · Chris Short

2012  1

January  1

Why I Dumped Spotify Premium

January 7, 2012 · 4 min · Chris Short

2011  1

January  1

The Story of Julie and Chris’ Engagement

January 29, 2011 · 4 min · Chris Short

2010  1

July  1

Review: Wii Sports Resort

July 27, 2010 · 2 min · Chris Short

2009  2

August  1

Chris Short’s Sausage Potato Soup

August 30, 2009 · 2 min · Chris Short

May  1

Ear Piercing Analysis: Average Age and Additional Data

May 26, 2009 · 2 min · Chris Short

2007  5

August  1

Will Kline

August 13, 2007 · 3 min · Chris Short

February  2

Interview with Gina Elise of Pin Ups for Vets

February 12, 2007 · 4 min · Chris Short

Windows Vista: Upgrading Seems Like a Really Bad Idea

February 1, 2007 · 3 min · Chris Short

January  2

Google Building New Datacenter in Lenoir, NC

January 20, 2007 · 3 min · Chris Short

IE Unsecure for Over 9 Months in 2006, Firefox, Nine Days

January 18, 2007 · 3 min · Chris Short

2006  1

October  1

Font Size Comparison

October 12, 2006 · 3 min · Chris Short

2005  6

February  1

How MSN Search Stacks Up

February 2, 2005 · 6 min · Chris Short

January  5

SEO Checklist

January 5, 2005 · 7 min · Chris Short

Web Site Design Do’s and Don’ts

January 5, 2005 · 9 min · Chris Short

Windows XP and Big Hard Drives

January 5, 2005 · 3 min · Chris Short

Link Popularity

January 5, 2005 · 7 min · Chris Short

Linux Directory Structure

January 5, 2005 · 4 min · Chris Short

2004  6

December  1

Firefox Hits the NY Times

December 17, 2004 · 1 min · Chris Short

November  1

VeriSign’s rapid DNS updates in .com and .net

November 6, 2004 · 1 min · Chris Short

September  2

T-Mobile Sidekick II Review

September 23, 2004 · 12 min · Chris Short

Microsoft Opens Up Kinda

September 20, 2004 · 1 min · Chris Short

August  1

My HP Pavilion zv5260us Laptop

August 17, 2004 · 2 min · Chris Short

January  1

orkut.com - Google’s Social Network

January 31, 2004 · 4 min · Chris Short

2003  17

December  1

Construction of an Optimized Web Page

December 20, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

October  1

Microsoft and the Death of the Internet

October 9, 2003 · 6 min · Chris Short

September  1

Moving to Linux - Linux Hopes Dashed

September 28, 2003 · 4 min · Chris Short

June  3

Blogs Explained

June 24, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

Linux and Ease of Use

June 10, 2003 · 4 min · Chris Short

Content is King

June 8, 2003 · 4 min · Chris Short

May  4

Moving to Linux - Filesystems

May 15, 2003 · 9 min · Chris Short

Moving to Linux - Partitioning

May 11, 2003 · 7 min · Chris Short

Moving to Linux - Picking a Distribution

May 10, 2003 · 9 min · Chris Short

Cable vs. DSL

May 3, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

April  3

Moving to Linux - Hardware Compatibility

April 29, 2003 · 11 min · Chris Short

Moving to Linux

April 24, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

NTP: You Can Use It

April 23, 2003 · 6 min · Chris Short

March  4

Internet Sociology and Internet Usage

March 20, 2003 · 6 min · Chris Short

Simple is a Good Thing

March 15, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

Microsoft and Open Source

March 6, 2003 · 5 min · Chris Short

Evolution of Windows

March 3, 2003 · 7 min · Chris Short