ChatGPT is not very useful when it comes to getting applications up and running on Manjaro Linux,.

I managed to get World Of Warcraft working on my desktop running Manjaro Linux with an Nvidia card using bottles! We have a winner for the summer gaming time with my son in the sun. Now to work out this undermines malarkey

Playing cricket for the first time in has to be more than a decade.

Last night I submitted chapter one of a DevOps focused hands-on book! 😦 I also recorded 2 x almost 1 hour talk through videos around getting started with Go #90DaysOfDevOps 90daysofdevops.com

Tomorrow is a new day!

I did some updating on the #90DaysOfDevOps repo last night and was going through some of my HashiCorp Vagrant instructions making sure they still work.. Vagrant is still pretty special. developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant

Need to get back into Golang and MCP server for something I have been building. The tool I have gets all data to /api/data so think we are 90% there when it comes to then getting that with the MCP + LLM

Ok we have our first MCP server working on Claude Desktop and VS Code / GitHub Copilot... Written in Golang using this github.com/mark3labs/mcp-… It enables the ability to communicate against the /api/data of kollect + LLM = nice report, summary etc.

Proud to share Veeam® Software is once again recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Backup & Data Protection Platforms. 9th year in a row. Highest for Ability to Execute. 6 years running. Thank you to our customers, partners, and #Veeam team for helping us make

I wrote a blog about it for future me upthestack.io/2025/06/27/Kol…

Geoff & I are kicking something off this week Our first episode will talk about our journeys from a systems admin based focus to adopting all things DevOps, Cloud, Kubernetes Also looking at some of the interesting projects, tools, news in the space. youtube.com/live/Qr99vxTCv…

New Post: The Hypervisor Hunger Games – Service Provider Edition vzilla.co.uk/vzilla-blog/th…

My day today has been onsite with a customer building out their platform engineering / DevOps and SRE functions and talking to us about data resilience across all platforms! This is a switched on company thinking about the data!

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Word of warning, I signed up for Incogni.com which is a great service but the auto renewal was £86.26 You should go and turn off that auto renewal on any service!

Happy 4th July everyone, love what you have done with the place.

Amazing SQL learning lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com

Been a great test so far up in Birmingham 🏏 Thought India had smashed all hope this morning in the first session! But Smith and Brook have come out good.

Champagne Supernova is my favourite oasis song! That’s it.

Out of office enabled! Lions vs Wallabies 🏉 Airport Flight Remember how to drive on the other side of the road