FIELD NOTES · DEVOPS · IT · TRAILS
Hills &
Valleys
Fig. 01 — hills, valleys, and the fog rolling in off the coast.
"Hills and valleys — it's how the trail goes, how careers go, and honestly how most on-call weeks go. I write it all down."
I work in DevOps and IT, which means half my job is automation and the other half is explaining what happened to the automation. I write it all down here — the experiments, the incidents, the career notes — in plain language, while it's still fresh.
When the pager is quiet, I'm on a trail somewhere. Those logs get filed too. Life on the Trail →
The Log
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Cloud, pipelines, automation, AI agents.
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Networks, homelabs, and keeping the lights on.
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Trail logs and places worth logging off for.
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