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Planning for 2025

You know it’s funny. For 2024, I theoretically started with a plan. But that plan was in the form of a YouTube video instead of an actual blog post. The problem with creating …

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2024 Year in Review

The overall theme of 2024 was acceptance. If you go through my 2023 year in review, I was generally pretty negative about the year. Not to say that nothing good happened in 2023, …

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HashiConf 2024 Wrap-Up

As I write this, I’m on my way home from HashiConf 2024, hosted in the great city of Boston. This year’s HashiConf was the 10th of its kind and the first to be hosted …

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Pluralsight Problems

I came across this Yahoo! Finance article via a LinkedIn post from Don Jones, and much like him I had a visceral reaction while reading it. The pit of my stomach dropped, my …

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2023 Year in Review

If I’m being honest, 2023 was a mixed bag. There were several factors that lead to a serious drop in revenue (-30%!) for Ned in the Cloud versus 2022. However, I connected …

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New Site, Who Dis?

If you’re reading this, then I must have done something correct. That’s right dear reader, I’ve migrated my website off of Wordpress and onto Netlify using Hugo. …

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Planning for 2023

For 2022, I didn’t go into the new year with a solid plan for what I wanted to accomplish, and more importantly what I wasn’t going to do. As a result, I ended up …

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2022 Year in Review

As 2022 winds to a close, it’s time to reflect back on the year. There were some triumphs, some failures, and a fair bit of frustration as I continue to try and figure out …

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My HashiConf Global 2022 Experience

This post was sponsored by HashiCorp, see the bottom for more details Before we get into the announcements and the event, I want to pause for a moment and just acknowledge how …

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