2025
It's now the first of February, 2026, and I haven't posted about 2025. In fact, I'm editing this post on a plane to NANOG96. I haven't really posted in a year because 2025 was such a busy year. 2025 was a momentous
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Idiomatic Confusion
there is an obvious wedge between the term "Network Automation" from the way we've always discussed it, and approached it, and the way we're discussing and approaching it in our communities lately.
2024
It is now January 15th and I have not cobbled together my thoughts & notes to post so, f it, we're doing it live. I'm essentially going to riff off of last year's post. In short, 2024 was a year of community & growth.
The Internet is not Dead.
Although there are a lot of good points in the hyperbolic suggestion that the Internet is dead, meaning the Web is essentially unusable for anyone who experienced the good old Web, I cringe every time I hear someone suggest it's the Internet that is dead, not the Web.
Another Crack At It
About ~ 8 years ago, I decided to sit down and learn Python. I learned using the well known book/video series ATBS Automate the Boring Stuff with Python Amazon Author I know it was ~ eight years ago, because I made this repo eight years ago... GitHub - Kazaii/python-ipsla-failover: IP
On Personal Growth
Simply Musing Disclaimer ⚠️ Before you read this blog post, know that it is simply my opinion. This is my blog, after all. If you do have comments/feedback/arguments, please do reach out to me to express them. Growth 2023 was, for all intents and purposes, a growth
It's The Little Things.
The Before Times For a long time, I was using my trusty ER-X as my main router on my LAN. EdgeRouter X For it's era, it was nearly perfect: Very low price tag Debian underpinnings that are easily exposed Really great CLI (due to the Vyatta fork) &
On Juniper
Thoughts on the acquisition of Juniper
2023
The end of 2023 left me quite busy with family & festive cheer. Now that a week of 2024 has come and gone, I've found myself able to reflect on 2023 and project for 2024. This was greatly helped by reading a lovely list of 2023 year-end reviews
Really Hits Home
This meme has been making the rounds on Mastodon and... wow... it really hits home. When converted Zeal to a blog, I intended to write a lot more. I wanted to blog the various things I'm working on. Sadly, I've worked on many things I haven&
Looks can be deceiving
Real-world Inspiration This is likely my last post on Network Tracing. I just can't help myself, as recently I had a rather interesting case of where traceroute can be deceiving. A user reported an issue where they experienced consistent small amounts of packet loss on their L2VPN LAN
Your Router Trusts You Too Much
When You Make An Uh-Oh You've probably been there at least once. You're in a maintenance window. You make a change and the router is suddenly unreachable. You wait and wait, but it does not come back. You finally accept defeat & start the process for
Querying the LSDB
Once Upon a Night Shift Dreary I recently performed a couple training sessions for my team. The subject of the training was "Network Core Tracing", as I've found – in regards to tracing in the core – there's a fair amount of inertia to
To be, or not to be, a CCIE
In my career , like many others, I find myself in a state of constant studying & learning. In the same vein, the one thing I've been flip-flopping about is getting certified as a CCIE / JNCIE for my efforts. When I was a wee sprout Early in my career,
End of the Year Article Share
As this year comes to a close, I'd like to end on the alternative of a "Blog Roll". I'd like to share some of the blogs I've read that I found interesting. I've found most of these through my RSS