Patrick Ogenstad

They say A watched kettle never boils, what is it they say about CI pipelines?

I created a simple tool to view the contents of x509 certificates as well as a chain of multiple certificates in one go. For now it only supports what I needed myself initially. If it’s something that could be useful for you it lives here: github.com/ogenstad/xcv

The recruiter wants to know if candidates know Perl. I wonder if this is a subtle sign of age discrimination. If you know that language you they just throw away your CV.

@dmfigol Congratulations and good luck!

After 6.5 years I've made a decision to leave Cisco as well as network automation. Since today I am having two months off to self-reflect and recharge and I will be joining AWS as a Cloud Infrastructure Architect in July.

@dbarrosop I meant if the CI pipeline had upgraded to another version of pip :)

@networklore upgrade to never use computers again

In an unsurprising turn of events the CI for a python project broke despite of having python dependencies locked with poetry. I will never understand how brittle the python ecosystem is...

So helpful of Service Now to include a link to print the API documentation! I wonder how many people use that :)

I want to thank @networktocode for their generous donation to nornir. It's great to see an awesome business like them support opensource :)

@robertcsapo @renobelk I was on a training workshop in Germany many years ago during Christmas. We went to a Christmas market when I incorrectly thought that glühwein was the same thing as glögg. I’ve seldom been so disappointed in my life :)

@robertcsapo @renobelk Looks suspicious though, it’s not “Blossa Glögg” :)

@ntdvps magefile.org

I never enjoyed using `make` for workflow automation, and I likely never will. Time to read this article on "Taskfile vs Make" that features that meme that resonates well with my experience tsh.io/blog/taskfile-…

RFC1918 not enough IP-space for your datacenter internal network design? Employees wasting to much time on Facebook during workhours? Kill two birds with one stone by using Facebook public IP-space for your internal network. Follow me for more great network design advice!

@dbarrosop @rucarrol This quote from John F Kennedy will help inspire you: "do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept”

@rucarrol oh, and this wasn’t a joke, it just actually happened. All of it. I don’t have evidence about the butterfly dying but statistically speaking I am sure it did too.

Pushing to a python repo python with github actions feels like playing Russian roulette.

@networkservice Just read them out loud on Youtube and tell people to smash that subscribe button ;)

how do I get paid to read research papers (and think about their contents!) all day

It's sad that you still get out of office replies saying: "I will have limited email access and longer delays with replies are expected." Unless you're on Mars or a long hike everyone still has access. Why isn't it acceptable to write "I'm on vacation, I'll reply when I'm back."

@MitchellMahan13 Sorry, don’t have anything to share aside from the article and code I wrote on my blog.

@networklore Have any pytest examples for Python NSO packages you can share? Wasnt sure if I should mock NSO in pytest or head a different direction :P

@NETRAVNEN @ntdvps @shefys My site (networklore.com) is currently using Jekyll but the amount of work to create a Hugo theme would be similar. At some point I’ll probably switch to Hugo but I blog so seldom so it’s been a very low priority.

@ntdvps @networklore @shefys using hugo?

Surprising enough I can't seem to find a decent static blog theme that supports author profiles. I.e. if you want to run a blog with 3+ active authors (i.e. typical corp blog) you need those authors profiles and articles per author taxonomy.

@ntdvps @shefys I bought an html theme from wrapbootstrap.com and converted it to a static site theme. It’s a bit more work but you can get it to support anything you want.

@shefys I'd pay for a theme with such features. Can't find any :(

@dmfigol In my dev environment I just store everything in git and rebuild the full dns and dhcp configs when there’s changes. In a dynamic solution I’d look at something that can send a webhoook on updates that triggers a run to rebuild everything.

Has anyone automated IPAM and internal DNS? would love to hear about your experience! Any other decent alternative to netbox IPAM? Any dns server with nice api to update records on the fly when a record changes in IPAM?

@ioshints It’s generally called digital sharecropping. Perhaps the best example is when Facebook first told everyone to build stuff on their platform and pulled a switch and bait when the changed their business model forcing people to pay Facebook to reach their own audience.

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