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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 12/01/2026

Winter holidays were full of nazis for me. My first computer game was wolfenstein 3D. There was no 3D ofc. Anyway, this track is sick

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 26/06/2025

PSA @atlassian.bsky.social can sponsor Williams F1 but can't get dark mode in Confluence

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 19/06/2025

webp has been there for years now. Don't let it be the next ipv6 @github.com

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/06/2025

Everytime you, as a maintainer, see an issue/PR where the OP attaches the pprof with a flame chart you start to pay attention even if you did not intend to at first

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/06/2025

I guess I should've gone with M4 Max with 128G and not cheap out =(

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 15/06/2025

I guess what makes the posts about AI worse than they could've been is that people use AI to edit/write them.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 12/05/2025

If you ever feel useless, remember that there are thousands of monitors that have built-in speakers.

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carl montanari @carlmontanari.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

i havent posted anything anywhere in a super long time feels weird to shout into the void, but sometimes super cool convos or new friends come from doing that so Ill try to do a bit more posting/being involved again. prolly talk about the usual stuff, especially around zig/go/python/k8s 🤷‍♂️

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/04/2025

I would love to catch @ecbanks.bsky.social at a bar when he opens up. The amount of BS he has to listen to at the sponsored shows is enormous. And the skin thickness measured in meters I guess.

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 17/04/2025

I've been waiting a year this time to get my US visa to only get my passport lost by UPS when delivering it from Amsterdam to the Hague (as far as 50km) Luck levels are skyrocketing

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 16/04/2025

Some things you come to appreciate only after you start using them. I remember being absolutely fine using the 1080p monitor until I got a 4K one, and magically, the grain on 1080p became so annoyingly visible. In @eda.dev Web UI everything is streamed via web sockets, so you never hit Refresh ->

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 05/04/2025

We also adopted @siderolabs.com Talos as our k8s distribution for @eda.dev Declarative network automation framework 🤜🤛 Declarative k8s distro

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 05/04/2025

It is this time of the year when a bunch of us are working on the #SReXperts hackathon exercises that attendees gonna dig into. Starting in Tarragona, Spain, this June. I am leading the @eda.dev stream and, oh, boy, you are all in for a treat. We are skating to where the puck is going to be.

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 02/04/2025

Setting up meetings across orgs (without seeing calendar' availability) is in the category of things that "should have been long solved"

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 30/03/2025

So nice that I slept over poetry and woke up right when uv was already useful.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 27/03/2025

When relocating to EU 5 years ago one of the perks was having €50 in your pocket and being able to book a RT flight from Amsterdam to Rome, Berlin, Madrid, Portu, Split. Surely, this never happened =)

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 26/03/2025

@iximiuz.bsky.social nerd sniping: do you know of a tool that is capable of showing the OCI image layers for a media type application/vnd.oci.empty.v1+json dive does not like it... The example image is ghcr.io/eda-labs/banners:v1.0.0-rc1

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 21/03/2025

Cisco Hyperfabric requiring a new NOS and hardware somewhat proves that fixing existing management stack on nxos for them is likely damn hard

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 20/03/2025

Interesting how video editors on a phone do almost everything one needs for a quick on the road marketing

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/03/2025

Han Solo case arrived safely to the Cloudfest 2025 and whispers with all it's fans

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 11/03/2025

Next week I'm taking talking a 7hrs train commute across two of the most developed EU member states. I dread this more than my flight to Sydney

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 06/03/2025

Building cool networking labs that reach well beyond the networking boundaries and inviting application stacks to the lab playground is why we built @containerlab.dev With KinD and containerized NOSes we can build crazy things that fit in the low-end host just fine.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 28/02/2025

This store has everything a sys admin needs

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 26/02/2025

Just like we don't care about xSTP anymore, we won't care about EVPN/VXLAN either in due time.

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 26/02/2025

In hindsight, the YT's decision to remove downvotes was a net positive decision. Less hate waves going on while still providing the author with these metrics

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 25/02/2025

The "hidden" @eda.dev treasure is that the "event-driven" in the name is not really about you creating automation based on events. But it is an inherent platform design pillar - everything is a signal, everything is streamed, and there is no poll.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 25/02/2025

If you are shopping for a new home router, look no further. 576x800G ports should be just enough for Netflix

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 24/02/2025

Who is here a sucker for beautiful network diagrams? I am for sure one.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 20/02/2025

I recently borrowed my corp Win laptop from my son to test the @containerlab.dev WSL distro. And, oh, boy, the default Start menu is a laughing stock.

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Containerlab @containerlab.dev · 20/02/2025

Switch from logrus to @charm.sh logger And now look at this lovely stdout format

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 19/02/2025

I love the Outernet name www.rivada.com tries to TM Clever =) And a ground-less competitor to starlink is always a pleasant surprise

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 19/02/2025

I wonder if there is a technical challenge to allow people to get notifications for thread comments on bsky/linkedin/x/whatever You see an interesting thread and want to follow it, but you can't. Feels bonkers

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/02/2025

It was fun to finally sit and document how we allow users to customize our CLI engine. Would be great to have users try it out and come back with real operational use cases we could help them automate via the CLI plugins www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtBn...

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Customizing the SR Linux CLI

YouTube video by Roman Dodin

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 13/02/2025

4 hours ago I was about to have breakfast. But then I wanted to quickly check if I can make the debugpy work in a remote fashion with SR Linux CLI (which is python). 4 hours later I opened an issue in the debugpy repo hoping they could sniff smth from the logs 🙈

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 11/02/2025

Taking Pydantify further and creating more elaborated automation with YANG-based pydantic classes www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM3s...

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How can you use Pydantify?

YouTube video by Roman Dodin

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 10/02/2025

@kmcd.dev hey Kevin I wonder, what do you use to format and lint protobufs? Buf? clang-format? Protolint?

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 08/02/2025

> If easier to have a short call let me know. Like never taking this option

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When I see a non-junior neteng using PuTTY, I die inside a little. It is like you are a professional furniture assembler using the hexagon wrench found on the IKEA floor. And no, this is not the Turkish Olympic athlete kind of comparison.

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Building this 30+ nodes cluster with Talos and Pulumi on openstack was fun. Learned a lot. Can't say that I use it much, but I definitely keep it :D Also why tf the control plane node #3 died?

Personal opinion: if you need Slack - pay for a pro version running a community on a free plan with a men-in-black-wipe-memory approach does more harm than good. Go Discord instead.

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I share the sentiment that the CLI is dead only when your CLI sucks. We strive to make our CLI spark joy, so you'd rather bury something else. Like letting you write your own show commands, so that you take back control over the CLI for operational tasks

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 06/02/2025

Easy to forget that on a macOS you are knee deep in the BSD relics. When I was trying to tshoot why I can't reach docker network in orbstack VM I got reminded about `pf` being a thing. 😮‍💨 How much easier would it be if macos used a Linux kernel, eh?

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It it somewhat telling that Cisco Live EU this year has been sunset by NANOG in the networking coverage media I follow. Even 3 years ago I had to mute the CLEU hashtag to keep the thread not constantly updating, but since then it is like a local event

Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 06/02/2025

Something I noticed about the way I work is that after a solid chunk of work that tool a lot of effort, I can't pull my shit together for quite some days after. Like if I drew extra energy that I need to reclaim after. Doom scrolling and YANG fidgeting activities.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 06/02/2025

The extensibility of mkdocs is just great. It marries the markdown's super simple spec with advanced functionality while keeping writing the docs simple. Today I found that with the Blocks extension you can make Steps look great