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Your Dashboards Are Bad and You Should Feel Bad
The name and inspiration for this post comes from an excellent resource I’ve had to the pleasure of knowing for several years. Nick, I’ve shamelessly stolen it. I’ve been building dashboards for nearly twenty years. Some were good. Some were terrible. Most were somewhere in between. If you’ve built dashboards in an IT environment, you’ve probably had the same experience. So, this isn’t a shame…
Breaking Down a Complex System So Anyone Can Understand It
I’ve spoken about documentation and the growing divide between the systems we design and the end users consuming such systems, but there’s something almost ephemeral that bridges the two: learning how to break down a story. I’ve always had a passion for learning different things – outside those that are part of my career – and that’s helped me build up a generous thesaurus of analogies. I’ve…
The Care and Feeding Playbook: How to Build a Community That Lasts
If you read Communities Fail When They’re Treated Like Features, you already know the problem. Treat community like a feature and it will behave like one: temporary. This is the hands-on playbook. This is the stuff you can use tomorrow. I wrote this from the inside. I was a community manager, a product manager for products discussed on that community before that, and a member as a customer…
Communities Fail When They’re Treated Like Features
Let’s be blunt: building a community and checking boxes look the same on a roadmap. Both get resources assigned, both get line items, both can be marked “done.” But they are not the same thing. A community is a living system. It grows, it needs food, it gets sick, and it thrives when people care for it. Treat it like a feature – something you ship, measure by a single metric, and forget – and it…
Why Enrichment turns Logs into actual Observability
Logs are often treated as if they’re complete, atomic truths: a line appears, something happened, and that’s the end of the story. But anyone who has ever tried to build real observability knows that a single log line rarely tells you anything meaningful. Logs are fragments. Observability is the reconstruction of what those fragments actually mean. The difference between the two is…
Documentation is the Product (We just Pretend it Isn’t)
There’s a quiet truth in every technical organization: documentation is the product. Not the UI. Not the API. Not the architecture diagram. Documentation is the thing that determines whether people can actually use what we built. But we rarely treat it that way. We treat documentation like a side quest. It’s something we’ll “get to later,” something that’s “nice to have,” something that exists…
The Gap Between Users and Systems (and Why It Still Exists)
Picture it: You’ve spent weeks and weeks building a new observability stack. Everything is in there: metrics from servers, traces from various applications, details about APIs, synthetic transactions, even NetFlow. You’ve reached monitoring nirvana – everything is in there and it looks beautiful. You present it to the management, the application owners, the other teams, and… crickets. Until…
Inside My Observability Stacks (and Why I Built them this Way)
At some point, reading about observability stops being enough. You actually have to build something. In my case, that turned into building not one, but two different stacks that I’m running side by side. One built around Elastic, the other taking a different approach with Prometheus. The goal is not to pick a winner. It is to understand how they behave in the real world. Which has been……
We’re not short on data. We’re short on understanding. This series explores how complex systems become something people can actually use, combining observability, product thinking, and a focus on user education. Basically, turning technical garble into understandable stories.
Why I Shipped It as a Docker Container
In part 1 I wrote about why I built this. In part 2, I wrote about some design decisions. In this part I’ll explain why I wanted Docker as the platform. Docker Was a Product Decision Docker isn’t just packaging—it’s User Experience (UX). The goal was: “You can deploy this in under a minute.” With Docker, that becomes: docker run -p 4278:4278 kmsigma/utm-qrcodes:latest No SDKs. No installs.…
I got tired of UTM + QR code tools that required accounts, stored my data, or charged for basics. So I built a self‑hosted, open‑source alternative in .NET—no DB, no auth, no tracking. I just published a blog post explaining the why behind it.
I love the promise of a fully automated IT infrastructure, but regardless of platform, the future is still unknowable.
I'm on a personal mission to backup everything important in my home lab. First up is my #pihole devices providing DNS filtering. And I'm doing it via #PowerShell because I'm me.
Convert PowerShell ISE Snippets to VS Code
I cut my teeth with PowerShell ISE and still have fond memories of it. But VS Code now rules my world – and that’s ok. Moving forward is progress. But one of the annoyances I’ve had since moving my PowerShell coding from the ISE to VS Code is the lack of the original snippets. In truth the PowerShell snippets that ship with VS Code are (generally) vastly superior and I use them all the time. But…
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I was thinking about my docker setup and how I don't have a good way to backup my volumes. It led me to a PowerShell script (of course it did).
PowerShell Modules can be Painful
Preamble Building a PowerShell module should not be too hard. In fact, on the surface it’s pretty simple. Collect a bunch of functions, classes, enumerations, (whatever else you want), bundle them together and provide a wrapper in the form of a PSD1/PSM file. My go-to reading and guidance material for this is PowerShell Scripting in a Month of Lunches. Building a module should be straightforward…
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