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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A MONTH into the new job and I’ve finally stopped hearing Slack notification bell in my sleep, lol! That first stretch where your brain keeps running after hours can be rough. How long did it take you to feel settled somewhere new? #NewJob #WorkLife

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#TechTipThursday: stop stashing every time a hotfix lands. git worktree add ../hotfix main Checks out main in its own folder, same repo. Fix the bug there, come back, feature branch untouched. Your stash was never meant to be a filing cabinet. #Git #DevOps #CLI

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Started blocking 15 minutes after every customer call and it’s already paid for itself. Used to stack calls back to back, then try to reconstruct both sets of notes at 5pm. Half of what mattered was already gone. The thing they said about their migration […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Best thing I ever learned to say on a customer call: I don’t know, let me find out. Spent years scared of that sentence. Figured admitting a gap meant losing the room. What actually loses the room is a confident wrong answer, because then they start […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Friday question: what was the first Linux distro you ever installed? Mine involved a burned CD, a dial-up download that took most of a weekend, and about four hours of fighting X11 to get a graphical login that I immediately broke again. Would not trade it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

#TechTipThursday: let git find the commit that broke it. Something worked three weeks ago and doesn't now, and there are two hundred commits in between. Stop reading diffs: git bisect start git bisect bad git bisect good abc1234 Git checks out the midpoint […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Monday: let's not deploy on Friday. Friday at 4:47pm: it's a one line change, what could possibly happen. #MemeMonday #DevOps #SysAdmin #Linux

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Two weeks back at GitLab and my brain is full. It's that specific new job tired, where you haven't done anything physically demanding but you're wrecked by 5pm anyway. Turns out absorbing a thousand new things is work. Weekend plan: dice, Ren Fair, and no […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#TechTipThursday: stop committing five unrelated things at once. You fixed a bug, renamed a variable, and left a debug line in there. git add . takes all of it. Instead: git add -p Git walks the change hunk by hunk and asks about each one. y to stage it, n […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Productivity tip that quietly holds everything else together: the weekly review. Thirty minutes, same slot every week. What did I say I'd do and didn't? What's sitting in my inbox pretending to be a task? What actually matters next week? Every system I've […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Been a rough couple of years, and lately I've been daydreaming about relocating. New city, fresh start. Can't move for about a year, so this is the research phase. East Coast hours means geography's wide open. Looking for walkable, a real live events scene […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

New post: the episode guide I build before every podcast recording. Recording is maybe a quarter of the work. The other three quarters is everything around it, and without a system every episode turns into chaos. One document per episode. Built before you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

A real commit history from a real project: fix fix again actually fix revert "actually fix" please WORKS Squash before the merge request. Nobody needs to see what I went through. #MemeMonday #Git #DevOps #Linux

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

First week back at GitLab, done. New laptop, forty browser tabs, more acronyms than I can hold, and a calendar that filled itself in by Tuesday. Coming back somewhere you already know is a strange mix of familiar and brand new. Weekend plan: absolutely […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#TechTipThursday: you didn't actually lose that commit. Bad rebase, hard reset, deleted branch. Before you panic: git reflog It's a log of everywhere HEAD has been, including commits that aren't on any branch anymore. Find the hash from before things went […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Productivity tip for anyone starting somewhere new: keep a list of everything that confuses you in the first month. The acronym nobody explains. The process that needs four approvals. The doc that contradicts the other doc. By week six you'll stop noticing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

First day back at Gitlab! It was a rough few months getting here, and a lot of you helped with intros, reposts, and kind words along the way. Thank you. It mattered more than you know. Now to go find out where they moved everything! #GitLab #NewJob #DevOps

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Friday rule I try to keep and mostly fail at: the laptop closes at a set time, not when the work runs out. Work never runs out. If I let it decide when I'm done, I'm never done. What marks the end of your week? #WorkLife #Productivity

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

#TechTipThursday: stop losing long jobs to a dropped SSH session. Before you kick off that big rsync: tmux new -s migration It runs on the server, not in your terminal. Ctrl+b then d to detach, close the laptop, walk away. Come back with tmux attach -t […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Unpopular opinion: your documentation is doing more selling than your website is. Technical buyers don't start on your homepage. They start in your docs, because that's where they find out if the thing does what you claim. #ProductMarketing #DevRel #DevTools

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Friday confession: the R720 is still in colo, sounding like a jet engine, and they just raised my rates. Got a full spec for its replacement weeks ago. Have I acted? No. The research became the hobby. Turns out the cure for paralysis is an invoice. #Homelab #SelfHosting

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Stop drowning in logs: journalctl -p err -b Every error from the current boot, nothing else. Add -u nginx -f to follow one service live. Logs are like receipts. Useless until you desperately need one. #Linux #SysAdmin #TechTipThursday

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Productivity tip I keep relearning: your brain is RAM, not storage. Anything in your head runs in the background and vanishes when you get interrupted. Write it down the second it appears, same place every time. Free up the RAM. #Productivity #WorkSmarter

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

New post: degree vs cert vs experience. They answer different questions. And the cert half needs a split people skip: passing a multiple choice test isn't the same as fixing a broken system on the clock. itguyeric.com/blog/degree-vs-certif… #Career #Linux #SysAdmin

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Job hunting productivity tip: track it like a pipeline. Applying into the void feels productive and mostly isn't. Give every application a row: company, date, contact, follow up. You stop guessing and start seeing where it actually stalls. #JobSearch #Productivity

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

#TechTipThursday: installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora. Skip the .run file from NVIDIA's site. Enable RPM Fusion nonfree, then: sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia Give it a few minutes to build before you reboot. Secure Boot? You'll need to sign it. #Linux #Fedora #NVIDIA

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Did you know I do this freelance? Positioning and go-to-market for dev tools and infrastructure. Teardowns, messaging sprints, fractional PMM, launches. Prices are on the page so you can decide without a call. itguyeric.com/work-with-me #ProductMarketing #DevTools

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Monday morning ticket, in its entirety: "it's slow." No error message. No timestamp. No indication of which thing is slow. Just those two words and an expectation that I'll take it from here. Thanks! That narrows it right down! #MemeMonday #Linux #SysAdmin #ITSupport

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Built sales decks that got used in every deal, and gorgeous ones nobody ever opened again. From the outside they looked the same. The difference wasn't design. It was whether I talked to sales before building anything […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

What is CentOS in 2026? New Fedora Podcast, our biggest panel yet: Amy Marrich, Troy Dawson, Shaun McCance. Stream vs Linux, the Fedora to ELN to Stream to RHEL pipeline, and why they now build from the same commit. youtu.be/rYgENECV4ns #Fedora #CentOS #Linux

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Today's my first day at the new job stocking a warehouse. Too bad its wine instead of bourbon!

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Rather not be posting this: I was let go from my professor role and the job search isn’t going well. Driving deliveries to keep things steady, about 40 days of runway left. Looking for TPMM, DevRel, or project work. Intros welcome, reposts help. #OpenToWork #Linux #OpenSource

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

#TechTipThursday: something's already on port 8080 and you don't know what. ss -tulpn Sockets, TCP, UDP, listening, with process name and PID. One command and you know exactly what's squatting on the port. netstat's been deprecated for years. ss is faster and already installed. #Linux #SysAdmin

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

New IT Guy Show: my colocated R720 sounds like a jet engine and Dell wants $1000 just to unlock IPMI. So I had Zack Perry of 45HomeLab spec my replacement, down to the CPU, the HBA, and how loud it is from three feet. #Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The docs said the fix would take five minutes. Four hours later I'm reading a forum post from 2011 where someone described my exact problem, and the only reply is from the original poster saying "never mind, fixed it." Happy Monday! #MemeMonday #Linux #SysAdmin #OpenSource

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

#ProductivityTip: do the worst thing first. There's always one task I'm dreading, and every minute I avoid it, it taxes everything else. So I eat the frog before email, before the easy busywork. The rest of the day runs downhill from there. #Productivity #WorkSmarter

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

#TechTipThursday: when your #storage is full and you have no idea what ate it. df tells you the partition is at 100 percent. It doesn't tell you exactly where. For that, install ncdu and run it on the directory you want to inspect: ncdu /var It scans the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

New @fedora Podcast: how to actually get involved in #Fedora. Noah and I walk the doors in, from Matrix chat to Discourse, Fedora Magazine, the Join SIG, and This Week in Fedora. Ever wanted to contribute but didn't know where to start? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

chmod 777 The problem: solved. The security team: [distant screaming] Happy Monday. #MemeMonday #Linux #SysAdmin #InfoSec

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

How I've been unwinding after work lately: losing, slowly and completely, in RimWorld. For the uninitiated, it's a colony sim where you manage a handful of people trying to survive on a hostile planet. Things go fine for about an hour. Then a raid, a heat […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

#TechTipThursday: the Linux trick that saves you from retyping the whole command. You run something, the terminal says permission denied, and you realize you forgot sudo. Instead of pressing up and cursoring all the way to the front of the line, just type […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Spent a while nodding along to Model Context Protocol like I knew what it meant. Then I actually sat down and figured it out: Turns out it's something sysadmins are going to be weirdly good at, because it's the same job we've always done: build a system […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

You might work for a toxic company if: you're battling insomnia and their response is a Performance Improvement Plan. Not a check in. Not "hey, are you doing okay?" People go through things. Sleep, health, family, all of it. A decent company notices and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden . Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Wrote something new: what #PragmaticMarketing is, and why "your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant." (Their words, not mine!) Spent years watching teams argue about features in a conference room, all of them sure they knew what customers wanted […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The four stages of running #Linux: It doesn't work. It doesn't work and I have no idea why. It works and I have no idea why. It doesn't work again. Happy Monday. #MemeMonday #SysAdmin #OpenSource

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Stepping away from the homelab today. The blinking lights can wait, because I'm getting ready to run Savage Worlds tonight. There's something about sitting around a table with dice and paper and friends that nothing on a screen quite matches. No uptime to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

This week’s #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds was an incredible experiment! I got real Event Horizon (1997) vibes!

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

New #FedoraPodcast is out, and this one is for everyone who has typed dnf install epel-release and never really stopped to think about what they just turned on. We sat down with Carl George, the #EPEL Team Lead at #RedHat, to get into what it actually is. We […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Eric The IT Guy @itguyeric.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

#TechTipThursday: find out if your Linux box actually needs a reboot. After a round of updates the guessing game is always the same. Do I need to reboot, or can I keep working? On Fedora and RHEL based systems, stop guessing: needs-restarting -r It checks […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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