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20265
- Azure Monitor Alert Audit: Improving API Alerts and Telemetry
A closer look at Learn to Cloud's API alerts, the telemetry gaps we found, and the changes that made the remaining alerts more trustworthy.
- Azure Monitor Alert Audit: Improving Verification Alerts
How Azure MCP and canvases helped us audit Learn to Cloud's alerts, improve deployment checks, and redesign verification telemetry.
- Refactoring Bash to Python for a Linux CTF
How an Effective Python chapter turned into a real refactor of the Learn to Cloud Linux CTF setup.
- verify time and the wall clock
What the CTF timer actually measures, a small but important fix I shipped, and why I decided not to change the underlying model.
- Making Python Teaching Samples Ollama-Friendly
A practical guide to adding Ollama support to Python teaching samples with clean environment config, provider switching, devcontainers, compatibility testing, and local embeddings.
20252
- My weekly screen time average is 41 minutes
because my phone is purely a communication tool.
- Recommended Reading
From learning new things about myself to understanding why I behave in certain ways, from improving my faults to overcoming trauma, and overall becoming a better person, in moments of deep loneliness and despair, as well as during periods of intense curiosity and feeling lost, I have always turned first to books for guidance.
20231
- Scalability vs Elasticity
https://youtu.be/ImYou1c-ocM
20223
- My No BS Guide to Get Into Cloud
I'm not here to baby you, here's the truth.
- Azure CLI basics
It takes me 30 seconds to deploy a VM with the cli vs 6 ish minutes in the portal...
- Introduction to Docker Containers
Oh Docker... let's get started.
202112
- How to use Xunit with Azure Functions in Visual Studio Code
testing one two testing...
- An intro to links in Linux
Link all the things
- An intro to archiving and compression in Linux
It's often useful to make copies of things an move large collections of files from place to place.
- An intro to redirection in Linux
Powerful pipelines!
- An intro to comm and diff commands
It's often useful to compare versions of text files.
- An intro to managing user environment variables
There are two types of variables: shell and environment.
- An intro to Process Management in Linux
A process is a program that is running and a Linux system typically has hundreds of processes running simultaneously.
- An intro to Linux file and directory permissions
No, everyone should not be root.
- An intro to adding and removing software in Debian-based Linux distributions
Download all the things!
- An intro to text manipulation in Linux
Almost everything is a text file in Linux.
- Adventures with Kali Linux on Azure #1
This image is old!
- An intro to finding things in Linux
locate, whereis, which and find commands