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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 15/07/2026

My son asked for this as a present. Well, say no more, boy.

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 · 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

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

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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.

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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 · 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

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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 · 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

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 07/02/2025

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?

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 07/02/2025

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 · 07/02/2025

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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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

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 05/02/2025

Many of us who do YT vids, or streams use @elgato.com Key Light products. Not many of us know that Elgato Control Center app on a mac sends ping requests to the Key Light device every two seconds.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 01/02/2025

We recently removed gomplate from @containerlab.dev dependencies, since gomplate brought so many things we don't use, bloating the dependency tree and making the clab binary twice as large. After we removed it, this is what containerlab v0.63.3 binary holds (thanks to github.com/Zxilly/go-si...)

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 25/01/2025

No rest for the wicked 😆 I have some badass colleagues who know enough typescript to be dangerous. @containerlab.dev got its own @vscode.dev extension baby Thanks Florian & @labbing.rocks for this delivery, I bet it will make a lot of people happy marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 24/01/2025

I'll work on this design a little, but our next @eda.dev swag delivery will feature this T for sure

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 19/01/2025

We've had a decent outbreak in the NAF slack dunking on YANG and how miserable things are with it and how much better they are in the non networking domains. The whole discussions sparked my interest to record a video about how we are solving this in EDA. Here is "how" for those who read

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 17/01/2025

nftables API is not sexy (what C API is?) but despite the ugliness it feels so much better not parsing the output of iptables commands. Now if only nftables were universally supported by the distros

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 12/01/2025

Do we get more CKAs than CCNAs nowadays? Are we ready to manage networks via k8s interfaces?

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 11/01/2025

Look what's cooking 😎 It's been a long time coming, but we had to wait for EDA to arrive because we think it is time to automate our networks with tools designed for it.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 09/01/2025

OK, I can now certify your collection for a small fee

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 08/01/2025

Jokes aside, but I am entering the the ansible collection certification process for our SR Linux ansible collection. Eager to see how my powerful clab-based, gh actions testing matrix will be received by the RH team. I have no units whatsoever, full blown e2e and functional testing only

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 07/01/2025

Small step for us, but a big step for humanity. Ghostty, wezterm, alacritty, kitty terminfo files are coming to SR Linux. Because we care.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 06/01/2025

When I author posts I always make sure I break down long commands to eliminate horizontal scroll. No one likes horizontal scrolls, if you want to up your writing game, make sure you pay attention to this little detail.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 03/01/2025

I bet no other networking vendor geeks out like we do

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 20/12/2024

Securing the spot early on is what dutch people do the moment they are born #autocon3 is in the books

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 20/12/2024

Ben on his experience authoring IETF RFC blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/rfc-in-...

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/12/2024

Wow, opened up the annual mandatory training everyone does in the latest dates of December and realised the voiceover and avatars are now AI generated. What a smart move! Charge same crazy premium for click-through trainings, but now it is all done on A100 for 10 minutes with no people involved

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 18/12/2024

when we unminified the @containerlab.dev graph vendored nexui JS library the hell broke loose and GH claimed that Containerlab is a javascript project. A criminal offense. So we had to fix that.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 12/12/2024

I have it When you wear it, even the very first cisco devices from the dawn of civilization start displaying their configurations in perfectly indented XML trees.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 10/12/2024

It is a release week for us. As with every first public release, we sprint like Mr. Bolt in his prime ⚡. Nervous? Yes. Excited? Yes. EDA will be available for everyone publicly Friday EoB PDT if all goes well =) Can it go wrong? It sure can.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 09/12/2024

There is only one graphics format that I accept and it is SVG Drawing custom svg buttons is my meditation

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 08/12/2024

PS. The transparent mgmt interface feature sets the IP that is assigned by docker to the VM's management interface, so there is not discrepancy between the two.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 08/12/2024

We've made some good progress in fixing the biggest caveat in vrnetlab - using fake (and same) mgmt IP for every node. Now we've added support for the transparent management interface for the following systems. Out of the unchecked items, what would you want to see added?

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 02/12/2024

In the upcoming @containerlab.dev we are changing the default style of the tables from the basic ascii tables to the ones that use ansi chars to render the table with rounded corners.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 02/12/2024

@idered.bsky.social 👋 there Would it be possible to make chalk.ist to handle ansi-featured tables/text more gracefully? The source is here gist.github.com/hellt/b63c35...

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 29/11/2024

No rest for the wicked. Shit, I still struggle with sound levels and gains with my Shure MV7. Can't quite figure it out how to set it up so that I don't have to tune it in post

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 29/11/2024

I have a key light air on my right, but the left side was always in the shade. Pretty happy with the Neo utility function as it takes no permanent space and powers from the laptop. A good choice for travel videoshoots as well

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 28/11/2024

this is getting out of hand, but if you started doing something - do it good

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 28/11/2024

Yesterday I've built the multiarch devcontainer variant that would allow macOS/arm64 users to just 1. open a repo in vscode 2. click reopen in devcontainer and start using containerlab right away.

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 27/11/2024

No, devil, I will not install the system packages to get some snmpwalk tool that is older than my father. Instead, I built a multi-arch, alpine-based container. Grab it if you like

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 27/11/2024

You know that feeling when you spend time on some tiny UX feature that no one will probably notice, but not implementing it will make *you* itch? Like this SVG fill color toggle that respects the system theme and paints the @containerlab.dev logo when the site theme is changing 🫠

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Roman Dodin @netdevops.me · 26/11/2024

oh man, they can test the whole 4/5G fixed wireless access scenarios

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