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Becoming a Python expert

I recently learned of a podcast called “Talk Python to Me”; specifically, I listened to an episode entitled 10 Tips and Ideas for the Beginner to Expert Pyth...

Deleting data from Influx DB

This post is mostly to remind me of the command to delete data from Influx DB 1.8 that is older than a certain date: delete from "switch" where time < '20...

Cron in a Docker container

A simple task: execute a cron job, within a docker container, to run a regularly needed item. This seems simple, right? Not so much within a docker contain...

Oxidized with Azure AD SAML Authentication

Anyone still use RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco Config Differ) to backup network configuration? In my current position, I just needed something “simple” t...

Slow shell with Pyenv

I leverage Pyenv to manage the different versions of Python I might use within my system. Recently, I decided to install Pyenv to my WSL Ubuntu 20.04 instan...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

This past week has been one of those annoying and challenging weeks. I help support three servers which our used for our Integrated Platform as a Service (I...