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Thomas H Jones II

Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.

Alexandria, VA, USA Joined on Nov 3, 2017

Education

B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University

Work

Senior Cloud Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems

learning/trying

Trying to find time to actually learn Python so that I don't just reflexively do things in obfuscated shell. The same thing that makes it easy to understand what a block of code in an unfamiliar language does also makes it hard to pick up a new language because, "well, this is how I'd do it in 'X' and figuring out the 'Y' analogue will take more time than deadlines feel like they'll allow"

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 6

Implementing (Psuedo) Profiles in Git

#git #profile #tricks

3 min read

Recent Comments

re: What terminal do you use? Aug 27

Sorry if this posted twice. Actually hit the post button arou...

re: Productivity: Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? Aug 12

Sometimes, your job is to be the pathfinder – where you have ...

re: Do software developers tend to be autistic? Aug 8

Short answer would be "no". That said, tech careers can be mo...

re: Remote workers: Are there any methods for saving on car insurance based on how little you drive? Aug 8

Assuming you're using a reputable insurer, getting a lower ra...

re: ssh - a treat for your GitHub Aug 8

An easier method for copying your public key to a remote host...

re: What type of chair do you sit on when coding? Aug 6

Just fine, actually. Nearest I can figure is that the couch a...

re: What type of chair do you sit on when coding? Aug 6

Working from home and living in a smol house, I have no dedic...

re: Why you might need Ansible and not even know it Aug 6

Yeah. Easier in all of the CM-oriented tooling (...and each h...

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 15

Sometimes The (Workable) Answer Is Too Simple to See

#keyring #linux #ssh #vscode

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 10

Opinions on Company-Paid Training and Payback Periods

#discuss

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 7

Taming the CUDA (Pt. II)

#ansible #drivers #rhel

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 6

Taming the CUDA

#aws #drivers #gpu #rhel

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 11

TIL: Podman Cleanup

#buildah #containers #localdevelopment #podman

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 11

Ansible Journey: Adding /etc/fstab Entries

#ansible #mounts #s3fs

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 11

TIL: You Gotta Be Explicit

#aws #fstab #s3 #s3fs

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 11

But We Want a Pre-Authentication Consent Banner!

#banners #gnome #security

4 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 13

Punishing Network Performance

#hyperv #networking #performance

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 13

Crib Notes: Finding Missing Single- Or Double-Quote Pairs

#cribnote #handy

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Feb 27

Hold On A Second There, Partner

#git #reporting

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Dec 5 '19

Seriously Jenkins^H^H^H^H I Already Used That

#annoyances #jenkins

5 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Dec 3 '19

Seriously, Jenkins?

#git #jenkins #obtuse #pedantic

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Dec 3 '19

The Punishment of NFS on Hardened EL7 Systems

#centos7 #el7 #nfs #rhel7

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Oct 25 '19

Are there things you see in others' code that just automatically makes you twitch/shudder

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Oct 12 '19

Consumer-Grade Cloud Backup Service for Linux Laptops?

#discuss #help #question

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Oct 9 '19

Would you want an "imposter" on your team?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 27 '19

We Don't Need No Steenking Comments

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 20 '19

MIME-Aware Mail-Distribution With SES

#help

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 21 '19

Abstraction vs. Experience/Habit

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 9 '19

So You Want to Access a FIPSed EL7 Host Via RDP

#centos7 #graphicadesktop #rdp #rhel7

5 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 19 '19

Why I Default to The Old Ways

#habits #regex #backwardscompatibility

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 17 '19

Crib-Notes: Manifest Deltas

#deltas #diff #git #log

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 12 '19

Is Slack (et. al.) Scalable

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 18 '19

Crib-Notes: EC2 UserData Audit

#audit #aws #ec2 #scriptlet

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 12 '19

Do You Dual-boot?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 30 '19

Bad Code Can Make for Good Learning?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 7 '19

Crib-Notes: Offline Delta-Syncs of S3 Buckets

#aws #offline #replication #s3

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 17 '19

Crib-Notes: Validating Consistent ENA and SRIOV Support in AMIs

#aws #ec2 #enhancednetworking #reporting

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 6 '19

Crib-Notes: Tracing Permissions for an Instance Role That Uses Inline Policies

#aws #iam #permissions

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 5 '19

Crib-Notes: Tracing Permissions for an Instance Role that Uses Managed Policies

#aws #iam #permissions

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Mar 27 '19

Travis, EL7 and Docker-Based Testing

#travis #docker #git #rpm

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jan 31 '19

GitLab: You're Kidding Me, Right?

#annoyances #cli #git #gitlab

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jan 16 '19

Isolated Network, You Say

#aws #backups #gitlab #s3

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Nov 7 '18

Shutdown In a Hurry

#linux #systemd #sysrq #buildautomation

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Oct 11 '18

S3 And Impacts of Using an IAM Role Instead of an IAM User

#authentication #aws #s3

4 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 26 '18

So You Created a Regression?

#git #regression

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 20 '18

Exposed By Time and Use

#automation #aws #backups #lessonslearned

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 13 '18

What Tools Do You Use To Validate Jenkins Pipeline Syntax

#help

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 12 '18

Do you have days that feel like most emails could be answered with memes?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 4 '18

How do you train people to ask good questions

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 17 '18

Systemd And Timing Issues

#linux #annoyances #systemd #legacyinit

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 15 '18

Diagnosing Init Script Issues

#automation #linux #troubleshooting

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 4 '18

JMSE Query Fu

#aws #housekeeping #jmse #reporting

5 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 2 '18

The Pain of LDAP

#activedirectory #ldap #query #search

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jul 5 '18

2FA and the Heartbreak of SMS

#2fa #authy #aws #security

4 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Jun 6 '18

You Call That Simplified?

#abstraction #simplification #yetanotherdsl

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 8 '18

Streamed Backups to S3

#aws #backups #linux #s3

7 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 11 '18

"How Big Is It," You Ask?

#mirror #repository #rpm #storage

4 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 24 '18

Head-Smashy Goodness

#aws #cfn #cloudformation #rds

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 28 '18

So You Wanna Run Sonarqube on (Hardened) RHEL/CentOS 7

#aws #centos #centos7 #cloudformation

6 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 28 '18

Why I Love The UNIX/Linux CLI

#aws #bash #bashhacks #cloudformation

2 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 28 '18

I've Used How Much Space??

#aws #backups #cli #s3

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Dec 10 '17

I've Used How Much Space??

#aws #backups #cli #s3

3 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Apr 28 '18

Automation in a Password-only UNIX Environment

#auditing #automation #centos #linux

3 min read

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