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July 21, 2020
Sponsorship Headaches
Today, this happened. This is a Sudo Mastery, 2nd Edition print sponsor’s gift. I shipped this book out just after I got the hardcovers, back in late 2019. It went to Russia. Months later, it came back with a tag saying “No such person at this address.” In the months between purchasing the sponsorship and …
June 23, 2020
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results
A few weeks ago, as part of BSDCan 2020, I held an auction to benefit the Ottawa Mission. And once again, Bill Allaire crushed all opposition. (Not that there was a huge amount of opposition, because plague, but still.) Bill has made his winning donation and then some, and is entitled to my malformed student …
June 16, 2020
Reviews and Podcasts on “Cash Flow for Creators”
Mark Leslie Lefebvre hosts Stark Reflections, an essential podcast for writers. He was kind enough to interview me on my new book, Cash Flow for Creators. If you have any interest in managing money in a creative business, check it out. We also talked about the Networknomicon and other special editions, as well as many …
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June 8, 2020
Online SNMP Talk Tomorrow Night
Late notice, but I have a brain like a stainless steel sponge. Tomorrow night, 9 June 2020, I’ll be giving an SNMP talk at the mug.org meeting. The meeting starts at 6:30EDT or 22:30UTC, but they have to get through their usual meeting work before they unleash me. The talk is, of course, based on …
June 2, 2020
BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction
Every BSDCan concludes with a charity auction for the Ottawa Mission. It’s a highlight of the conference, and we’ve raised tens of thousands of bucks for this worthy organization. BDSCan is virtualized this year, because plague. Every year, I try to come up with two unique items to contribute to the auction. One of them …
May 25, 2020
Podcast interview on SNMP
The fine folks over at Packet Pushers obviously hadn’t heard the warnings about me, so they asked me to be a guest on their Heavy Networking podcast. Allow me to present an hour of myself, Allan Jude, Greg Ferro, and Ethan Banks whinging on the unspeakable horrors on a protocol that all network engineers must …
May 21, 2020
New book: “Cash Flow for Creators”
I make my living writing books. I don’t consult. I don’t teach, except for occasional talks at user groups and conferences–and cynics might call those talks “one hour commercials for a book.” It caused a problem I didn’t predict. People keep asking me how I do it. Some of these querents are making enough at …
May 16, 2020
My very first audiobook
At long last, I have dipped my toes in the audiobook ocean. My very first audiobook is now available on Amazon, on iTunes, and a bunch of other audiobook sites. This should have been available six weeks ago, on the very first day of April. Sadly, the plague dumped tar into the gears of the
April 16, 2020
“git sync murder” status
TLDR: git sync murder will be out this year. Slightly longer: it wont be early this year. In February I started writing git sync murder, a sequel to git commit murder. Ive run at this book before, but the world put a 22-centimeter cyst on my thyroid to stop me. This time, its pulled out
April 13, 2020
“TLS Mastery” sponsorships open
My next book will be TLS Mastery, all about Transport Layer Encryption, Lets Encrypt, OCSP, and so on. This should be a shorter book, more like my DNSSEC or Tarsnap titles, or the first edition of Sudo Mastery. I would like a break from writing doorstops like the SNMP and jails books. You can sponsor
