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Teaching Kids and Building Products with Tom Rossi

New Website & October Newsletter

I just published the trailer for Volunteer Technologist, my new podcast about all the ways those of us who are technically inclined volunteer our skills. https://www.volunteertechnologist.com/blog/...

I’m currently porting our district website to an entirely different kind of Hugo theme call Doks. It has been an interesting experience thus far because Hugo has evolved quite a bit since I last pu...

Perforce Completes Acquisition of Puppet The Perforce acquisition of Puppet has closed! Details in the linked post. https://www.perforce.com/press-releases/perforce-completes-acquisition-puppet

I spent this past weekend volunteering at Bert Adams Scout Camp as part of Scout Challenge 2022 where there were 1500 Scouts, 500 adult leaders, and 200 volunteers in attendance! It was an amazing ...

I’ve worked with Palo Alto firewalls off and on for many years but, until now, hadn’t ever had any formal training on them. This week I got to take Palo Alto’s EDU-210 course “Firewall 10.1 Essenti...

I’ve been doing prep work for about two weeks now, but today I well and truly dove head first into the role of a network engineer as part of a project I’m working on. It’s nice to get to revisit th...

Another day, another machine setup with Fedora Linux. Today's adventure is with a personal 2015 MacBook Pro that I applied the same set of extensions to that I use on my work computer. I really lik...

I offered up some code to enhance a puppet module that manages RVM. We utilize this module to, among other things, simplify deploying self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. https://github.com/witjoh/p...

Fedora 34 ➡️ 35 ✅ I'm interested to see how the new features like WirePlumber shake out. https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-35/ has more details for anyone interested.

I’ve officially finished this year’s Hacktoberfest! I’m looking forward to another awesome shirt and some stickers… I’m a sucker for both.

Participating in the pilot course for Wood Badge 100 at Bert Adams Scout Camp!

Finished my Wood Badge ticket 🎉

I spent a good bit of today trying to wrap my head around Kubernetes operators and how to create custom controllers and and resources. I want to try reimplementing the useful parts of a legacy appl...

Puppetize 2021, Puppet’s annual conference, was quite enjoyable and had lots of great sessions.

This week I got to take the Core Kubernetes Workshop from SuperOrbital. Even though I’ve been using Kubernetes for quite a while, I learned a good bit. I highly recommend their course to anyone wan...

My first pass at some tooling to keep my team’s puppet modules in sync with our standards and s finally complete. The results can be seen in https://github.com/ploperations/repo_standards/tree/main...

I think I might be fully on the Matrix train… not the movie with Neo, but rather the chat tool that’s distributed like email servers are. It’s got a focus on privacy and allows for a much easier wa...

Started experimenting with self-hosted Nextcloud as a way to get off Dropbox et al. I’m curious to see how this goes as I’ve been hearing about it in multiple podcasts recently and in a magazine I’...

World Domination, One Instant Message at a Time

I've started a new blog called Church Bytes to talk about how intertwined technology is in churches today. Check out the introductory post at https://www.fbcc.us/church-bytes/introducing-church-bytes/

Today I launched a totally redone version of www.fbcc.us! The new site is much more inviting, significantly faster, and more mobile friendly. I'm proud of what we've accomplished in a short amount ...

Started working on a completely new website for my church based on a theme from ChurchThemes.com