Who am I and what do I do?

My name is Josh.

I am a Linux Administrator and Site Reliablity Engineer with a passion for experimentation, automation, and standardization.

I also have a fascination with infrastructure in general, and am currently focussed on improving infrastructure and platform engineering in enterprise.

Sometimes I write technical documentation geared towards other IT professionals.

Why does this blog exist?

This blog is 99% self-serving:

1. This blog provides me with a way to structure my thoughts in text.
2. Which helps me to teach others.
3. Which helps me (greatly) to learn.
4. Which helps ensure that I am and continue to be employed by companies that share my values.

It also doesn’t hurt that it creates a repository of knowledge for me to reference that is backed up to git.

Why the name?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324.html

Also, the domain was shockingly affordable.