Notes from
the workbench.

How GitButler and stacked PRs help me ship AI-written code

How I use GitButler stacks, GitHub pull requests, AI reviews, and installer builds to keep multiple changes moving and ship with more confidence.

Teaching an AI agent to build my Redash dashboards

I gave a Claude Code skill access to my self-hosted Redash and let it build the ultimate dashboards.

Backing up the cloud - Email

Bichon: a simple, high-performance email archiver that stores your email locally over IMAP. Running it on TrueNAS to back up my Microsoft 365 email.

Laravel Cashier + Paddle: Handling Guest Checkouts

Let users buy without logging in. Start a Paddle guest checkout in Laravel and create the user on webhook so Cashier can process subscriptions and payments.

AI Writes code faster — But coding speed isn't the issue

AI agents are making it easier than ever to crank out working code, but the real bottlenecks in software development remain unchanged.

The most underrated GitHub Copilot feature nobody talks about

GitHub Copilot Instructions: The secret to getting better AI code suggestions by giving it project-specific context.

Laravel Pausable Jobs: Selective control over your queue processing

Laravel Pausable Jobs is a package that allows selective pausing and resuming of specific job classes in Laravel queues without stopping entire queue workers.

Using Laravel Dusk to download Paddle payout PDFs

Save hours each month by automating Paddle payouts with Laravel Dusk. This project automatically downloads your Paddle payout PDFs.

My First PHP Package: The Discord Table Builder

Journey of creating my first PHP package

Cloudflare: Deploying a blog in a subdirectory of an existing site

VMware Fusion: Direct USB Keyboard & Mouse

Learnings from a new manager

Introducing AI Spend: AI API Usage Monitoring Made Easy

Using OpenAI's [free] Content Moderation API

Tunneling Plugwise Smile P1 Stats to Grafana

Azure DevOps - Post-job Installing Apple Certificate failing

AdminPatron: The AI Assistant I wish I had years ago

Using Tailscale for Home Lab VPN Connectivity

Slack Notifications for Incoming Chatwoot Messages

Raspberry Pi + ePaper Display + SurePet Flap

Switching Tracks - Saying Goodbye to VMware

Introducing MuteDeck for Zoom (and..)

VCF Upgrade Failure with Static NSX-T Routing

Transferring Applications between vRealize Network Insight instances

Integrating vRealize Automation Cloud & vRealize Network Insight Cloud

vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Update

Event-Based Automation with vRealize Network Insight & VEBA

vRealize Automation Action - SSH to Servers Post-Deployment

Natural Language Searches with PowervRNI

Securing Platform Communication in a vRealize Network Insight Cluster

Adding a second network interface to a vRealize Network Insight Collector

Bulk Creating AWS VPC Flow Logs

Managing GNS3 with PowerShell

Using OAuth for VMware Cloud Authentication

Using Terraform to deploy vRealize Network Insight Cloud Collector to VMware Cloud on AWS

NSX-T Manager: Increasing API requests per second

Archiving Network Flows from vRealize Network Insight to Log Insight

SmartNIC - The Next Step in Networking

Exporting Dashboards from vRealize Log Insight with Python

Deploying a VMware SD-WAN Edge to AWS

VMworld 2020 - Session Picks

Configuration Backups of vRealize Network Insight

Syncing Flows between vRealize Network Insight Collectors

Introducing the Stream Deck Plugin for Zoom

vRealize Network Insight Cookbook Now Available!

Routed VPN between VMware Cloud on AWS and VyOS

PowervRNI 1.8 Release Notes

A better Zoom experience with a Stream Deck

IP Address Management with vRealize Network Insight

Secure Logging from vRealize Network Insight

Adding 100 Switches to vRealize Network Insight in 20 minutes

My 2019 in books

Using Azure DevOps Pipelines with Qt

PowervRNI 1.7: What's New?

Roneo: A NetFlow Duplicator

Developing PowerShell with Visual Studio Code in Containers

Automating cleaning up NSX-T with PKS protected objects

Deploying vRealize Network Insight via Ovftool

vRealize Network Insight 4.1 - What's New - API Edition

Finishing a Fresh MacOS Install in 21 Minutes

Time for a change!

Postman Collection for vRealize Network Insight APIs

My Home Automation Gear

vRealize Network Insight 4.0 - Smaller Gems

Why the #vCommunity is important to me

Integrating ServiceNow with Network Insight

Integrating vRealize Automation with Network Insight

Using PowervRNI to connect to Network Insight SaaS

VMworld EU 2018 - My Session Picks

Integrating vRealize Network Insight and Log Insight

Using PowervRNI to configure SNMP settings on data sources

vRealize Orchestrator Workflow with vRA Event Broker to get Deployment Info

VMware NSX-V Control and Management Plane Connections Diagram

Getting Started with the NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud API

vRealize Automation and NSX with App Isolation: Internal error

vRealize Network Insight 3.8 - What's new in the API?

Using PowerNSX to get all routes on NSX Edges

Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - Orchestrator Configuration Basics

NSX-v 6.4.1 Released - Extended HTML5, vSphere 6.7 support & more

Learning NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud - The Basics

Storing the VMware NSX config in version control

Doing Dual ISP Load Balancing with Ubiquiti EdgeRouter

VMware NSX & OTRS - Automating Security with Help Desk Systems

Deploying VeloCloud on VMware vSphere

PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery

PowervRNI is making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI.

GRE Tunnels & Dynamic Routing in NSX 6.4

Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Applications

CiscoLive EMEA 2018 - Presentation PDFs

Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources

NSX for vSphere 6.4 is here (and it's massive!)

Introducing PowervRNI

Restoring a NSX Edge Gateway

NetFlow on Physical switches with vRealize Network Insight

Host Preparation Troubleshooting Enhancements with NSX 6.3.5

vRealize Network Insight Search Cheatsheet

Building a cheap alternative for CrashPlan for Home

Getting a list of VDS Portgroups from the vCenter Database

VMworld - Making the most of your time

How to define two NetFlow targets in vSphere VDS

Editing uneditable VMs in vCenter

Qt QNetworkAccessManager causing latency spikes on wifi

New VMware Fling - Autopology (Drag and Drop NSX Network Topologies? Yes Please!)

Exporting your Amazon Kindle Highlights & Notes to MySQL

VMware NSX 6.3 is here!

vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources

Installing vRealize Network Insight with PowerCLI

Using VMware NSX to get IPv6 connectivity at home

Connecting a VPN between AWS and VMware NSX

Monitoring Firewall Rules with vRealize Network Insight

PowerCLI for OS X & Linux Fling

NSX SpoofGuard Automatic Approvals through your IPAM

VMware Validated Design for SDDC 3.0 Released

Please stop stretching your VLANs, virtualize your network

VMware NSX 6.2.3 - SSL VPN Behaviour Change

Removing the VMware NSX Solution from vCenter

VMware NSX 6.2.3 released

Deploy and configure VMware NSX in 23 minutes

PowerShell Friday: Using the Cisco ACI API

Resetting the root & admin password of VMware Identity Manager

Introducing vmwareapis.com: a Hosted Project Platypus

Updated: Cisco UCS Inventory Script

vRealize Operations: Adding an OS Monitor Script

Cisco Enters Hyperconverged Market with HyperFlex

PowerShell Friday: Configuring vSphere MTU Size

VMware NSX PowerShell Extension Open Sourced

Introducing the VMware NSX for vSphere PHP Framework

Ravello Systems: VMware NSX 6.2 Management Service Stuck in 'Starting'

vCloud Director: Removing Network from a vApp without shutting it down

Veeam PowerShell: Get Backup Job Storage Size

VMware Samples Exchange goes into beta

Monitoring a Galera Database Cluster

The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld - Part 2

The Future of Virtual Networking from VMworld - Part 1

vCloud NFV Kick-starts Telco Providers

VMware NSX 6.2: Support for Multiple vCenters

Manually preparing ESXi hosts for VMware NSX

Integrating VMware NSX with VMware vRealize Log Insight

Removing VMware Data Security after vShield to NSX upgrade

Leap Second - Cisco Datacenter Effects

New VMware Home Lab

The (Un)Official VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide

Cisco UCS Manager Finally gets HTML5 interface

VMware NSX-v Configuration Maximums

Installing VMware vGPU on vSphere 6.0

Cisco UCS Mini - a deep dive

VMware Certification Changes

VCIX-NV Objective 5.3 – Troubleshoot Common Connectivity Issues

VCIX-NV Objective 7.2 – Manage and Report on an NSX Environment using the NSX Command Line Interface

VCIX-NV Objective 5.4 – Troubleshoot Common Services Issues

VCIX-NV Objective 7.1 – Administer and Execute calls using the NSX vSphere API

VCIX-NV Objective 4.2 – Monitor an NSX Implementation

VCIX-NV Objective 5.2 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Component Issues

VCIX-NV Objective 5.1 – Troubleshoot Common NSX Installation/Configuration Issues

VMware VCIX-NV Exam Experience

VCIX-NV Objective 6.3 – Configure and Manage Service Composer

VCIX-NV Objective 6.2 – Configure and Administer Role Based Access Control

VCIX-NV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer Firewall Services

VCIX-NV Objective 4.1 – Backup and Restore Network Configurations

VCIX-NV Objective 3.3 – Configure and Manage DHCP/DNS/NAT

VCIX-NV Objective 3.2 – Configure and Manage Logical Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)

VCIX-NV Objective 3.1 – Configure and Manage Logical Load Balancing

VCIX-NV Objective 2.4 – Configure and Manage Logical Routers

VCIX-NV Objective 2.3 – Configure and Manage Layer 2 Bridging

VCIX-NV Objective 2.2 – Configure VXLANs

VCIX-NV Objective 2.1 – Create and Administer Logical Switches

VCIX-NV Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Transport Zones

VCIX-NV Objective 1.2 – Upgrade VMware NSX Components

VCIX-NV Objective 1.1 – Deploy VMware NSX Components

Cisco vPC between VDCs in single Nexus 7k (Lab)

Cisco OTV Lab with Multicast example

VMworld Europe 2014 Recap

VMware NSX Best Practices from VMworld

vRealize Operations Manager (previously vCOps) 6.0 "Almost Here"

VMware Site Recovery Manager Updated to 5.8

VMware NSX on a FlexPod (with dynamic routing)

Cisco UCS B-Series CPU Upgrades - WILL_BOOT_FAULT

VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2 released!

Cisco UCS Grand Slam Announcements

Cisco releases Nexus 1000v 3.1 with an Update Manager!

Taking the CCIE Datacenter Lab Exam

Cisco UCS: Which uplink is listening for which VLAN?

Mini version of Cisco UCS Review - Part 1

How to boot a UCS C-Series server from iSCSI

Cisco UCS Inventory Script

Disconnecting an active UCS KVM session

Installing Guacamole - HTML5 Remote Desktop

Ultimate Cisco Nexus FCoE Configuration Guide

This post is part of my CCIE Datacenter reference series and will cover all there is to get FCoE up and running on the Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches.

Juniper SSG Double Dual Homed VPN

CCIE DC Progress Sheet

VMware VXLAN Host Preparation: Add virtual NIC: Unknown error

VMware VCP Required Recertification

VMware NSX: Configuring Load Balancing

Design Guide - Deploying VMware NSX with Cisco UCS and Nexus 7000

Guacamole - HTML5 Remote Desktop Sweetness

Replacing the UCS Central SSL Certificate

VMware NSX - Installation

VMware NSX - Distributed Services

Nexus 5500: Changing Unified Ports on expansion module without reload

VMware NSX - General

Exchange 2010 SP2 - New-MailboxExportRequest not found

Changing ESXi 5.1 Service Console VLAN ID via PowerCLI

UCS Explained in video

New UCS Blade Server on older UCS Firmware

Fixing MySQL slaves with Percona xtrabackup

vSphere Web Client 5.1: Must be registered with the Lookup Service

IOS Recovery of 3750 switch

vCloud Integration Manager

Twitter reviews 2011

VCAP4-DCA & VCP5 Experiences

vCenter plugin URLs

Importing .ovf's into VMware Fusion

Removing vCloud Agent from ESX(i) host

Enabling IPv6 on a Cisco ME3400

VMware vCloud Director SSL certificates

Dynamic Images

Another Snow Leopard issue - Juniper's Network Connect

Snow Leopard upgrade - iPod gone?

How cool is this.

WhatPulse Linux Beta

Snapshot hell: Recover a locked vmdk

PHP4 IPv6 validation

Using this site.

%CRYPTO-4-PKT_REPLAY_ERR: decrypt: replay check failed connection id=xxx

rtsol under Leopard