In case some of my colleagues miss my input. "DNS resolution. I can 'dig' it". #DataDadJoke.

Jammed a bunch of activities in a workflow. Easy IAPeasy. #Itential #LivingItentially.

I had a colleague call our project ‘covert ops’. So here I am thinking we’re “Call of API: Covert DevOps”.

Ya know the young man dating your daughter has been 'promoted' when he gets approved to move from Guest Wireless onto the family SSID.

If someone cancels a Stand-Up meeting, is that a Stand Down?.

Oooof - feeling slightly teased here. I'm at an Arista Automation seminar and their automated lab system generated me this. WHO are you calling credible turkey!??.I love automation. sometimes autogenerated string combos have unfortunate pairings.

I heard someone talking about Auckland and my tech hearing got me thinking “what a great place to manipulate text in Linux”.

. and another Proxmox build for the homelab. I am enjoying the Minisforum MS-01 for my compute nodes. They help me in my solution design for @HighPoint . I packed out one with a bunch of @InfluxDB , @grafana , and @NetBoxLabs solutions.

My new license plate came in! (still keeping the snmpguy account)

The first day at HighPoint Technologies!.It was SO good! Felt like a first day of school.

I posted my 'bye Cisco' message on LinkedIn. If you're interested.

In my free time I’ve been working on an update to my Raspberry Pi project that monitors temperature, humidity, light and door opening for sensitive areas. I’ve been using the Pushover project ( for notifications to iPhone. Anyone else use?.

Hello all! You may have seen Cisco has performed some layoffs recently. My role in Cisco's DevNet team, a group focused on developer advocacy, network programmability and API quality was eliminated. I’m seeking a new role and would appreciate your support. If you hear of any.

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I did a guest blog at NetBox talking about using the technology at the CiscoLive NOC.

With great PoE, comes great responsibility.

Working on some code - debugging. then my wife calls to get rid of a bug. a spider. seems apropos. I did promise to "love, honor and cherish" - she added "and kill spiders".

And THAT's a WRAP for #CiscoLive, which just officially closed a few minutes ago. Our final, record-breaking Internet volume was 102.96 Terabytes. IPv6 average was 47.0%. Max wireless clients was 19,064.

The sad part of #CiscoLive for a network ops guy - the tear down. The World of Solutions is in FULL SWING dismantlement. TIMBER!!!!. From #CiscoDevNet to DeadNet

and the whole event (since Saturday afternoon reg open)