The CEO of the Canadian National Bank wrote me a personal email in Slovenian. I was so amazed I almost missed a single missing letter in his email address (ignoring for the moment that a CEO of a large bank is using Gmail) 🤪

Excellent blog post by Ivan Pepelnjak as always. How do you know what data plane and control plane to use? blog.ipspace.net/2024/07/bgp-ev…

Yeah I can explain that gap on my resume - I tried to move a picture in Word

"I can do whatever I want in the public cloud and hide it from my organization" is an increasingly recurrent workload repatriation (on-premises) friction point. It's usually couched in "iterating rapidly" or "self-service" or something else that doesn't make the insubordination

C is Latin, the root of all modern languages, the whole universe used to speak it. C++ is French, it’s Latin with fancy rules, used by the elite around the world & in specific circles. JavaScript is English, everybody speaks it, most speakers speak it poorly and others don’t

Connecting to a Microsoft Teams call

i’ve personally met tech influencers w certifications that imply high level networking knowledge, who literally could not tell you what ARP is or how it works. could not describe the OSI model or the difference between routing & switching. & they’re gearing up to sell you things.

. Grammarly happily changed "family inet" in Junos configuration to "family incest" 🤦‍♂️ Is there any chance they would ever recognize the Markdown code blocks?

Well well, hello my old friend! podcast.feedspot.com/network_engine… Software Gone Wild is in the Feedspot top 10 of network engineering podcasts! W00t! /cc Ivan Pepelnjak Nick Buraglio BSKY: @forwardingplane.net

"If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does" Incredible things happening on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

After a grueling experience, many fights against Hugo, my raspberry pi, GitHub, git, wordpress, cloudflare, and of course, my blatant ignorance in the matter... I managed to migrate my blog away from wordpress and to publish it in cloudflare using Hugo, GitHub and markdown.

As promised earlier, I wrote a blog post explaining the WordPress to Hugo/CloudFlare migration process at a high level. recurseit.com/post/2025/03/m… I hope it helps! /cc Ivan Pepelnjak Tim McC #hugo #wordpress #cloudflare #developer #html #markdown #git #github #code #repository

AI image generation is becoming scarily good 🥹

🔨 Let's standardize on a hammer -- said no carpenter ever 🤷‍♂️ So why do we do this in #technology? Ivan Pepelnjak joined the podcast to peel back the layers of perception VS reality. I really enjoyed this conversation! Eyvonne Sharp Packet Pushers #NetworkEngineering #DevOps

The Internet has become little more than a perpetual meeting of the Dunning-Kruger club. It is … exhausting.