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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.

work

Senior Cloud Engineer at Plus3 IT Systems

location

Alexandria, VA, USA

education

B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University

joined

Nov 3, 2017

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

May 13

Punishing Network Performance

#hyperv #networking #performance

3 min read

Recent Comments

re: How much do YOU pay per month for cloud hosting? May 28

I self-host because - even without my family - I have 500+ di...

re: How much do YOU pay per month for cloud hosting? May 28

Linode uses hourly billing, but they quote you for a month's ...

re: How much do YOU pay per month for cloud hosting? May 28

I pay $10 month so that I can self-host email for my family. ...

re: VSCode vs Vim May 27

Always been a touch-typist and started using text editors bef...

re: Facebook and more big tech companies are going to lean into distributed work. What is going to suck about this? May 27

It's generally seemed to me that entities that try to make th...

re: Facebook and more big tech companies are going to lean into distributed work. What is going to suck about this? May 26

I have friends, family co-workers that are stuck with Xfinity...

re: The day I erased all the customer data May 24

I wish I could say that I no longer committed flonky code tha...

re: What is the best code editor? May 23

VIM? Ugh. ed is the one, true editor. =)

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

#discussAre 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

#helpConsumer-Grade Cloud Backup Service for Linux Laptops?

#discuss #help #question

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Oct 9 '19

#discussWould you want an "imposter" on your team?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 27 '19

#discussWe Don't Need No Steenking Comments

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 20 '19

#helpMIME-Aware Mail-Distribution With SES

#help

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 21 '19

#discussAbstraction 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

#discussIs 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

#discussDo You Dual-boot?

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

May 30 '19

#discussBad 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

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 26 '18

So You Created a Regression?

#git #regression

1 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

#helpWhat Tools Do You Use To Validate Jenkins Pipeline Syntax

#help

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 12 '18

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

#discuss

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Sep 4 '18

#discussHow 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

1 min read

Thomas H Jones II

Aug 4 '18

JMSE Query Fu

#aws #housekeeping #jmse #reporting

1 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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