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Templates, guides, and tools built from 25+ years of real-world systems engineering. Practical solutions you can use today.
Templates, guides, and tools built from 25+ years of real-world systems engineering. Practical solutions you can use today.
A fillable AD audit checklist covering privileged access, stale accounts, GPO hygiene, MFA gaps, and event log review — everything an auditor expects, packaged for the sysadmin who has no security team.
A developer's guide to designing safe AI chatbot account recovery flows, using the Meta/Instagram breach as a live case study.
A practical guide for IT managers and sysadmins who must now choose between Claude Code, Grok Build, and the Gemini CLI replacement (Antigravity) — covering security posture, cost modeling, data residency, and a scored comparison worksheet for team deployment.
For adults who want one clear, useful AI win — no tech background, no jargon, no wasted afternoon.
A plain-English walkthrough for adults 60+ who want to get real value out of their phone's built-in AI assistant — no apps, no jargon, no tech background required.
For mid-to-late-career professionals who want practical AI skills that apply to their actual job — without starting over from scratch.
A practical guide for IT teams to recognize and block malware distributed through AI shared-chat features, plus ready-to-use organizational AI usage-policy templates.
A practical framework for engineering teams and IT managers to audit, right-size, and optimize spending across Claude API, GitHub Copilot AI Credits, and other metered AI tools — with a cost-per-PR calculator and decision matrix included.
A practical guide + reusable templates for IT teams inheriting Claude-powered workflows from consultants — covering security posture, data governance, API integration patterns, and shadow AI governance.
Master cron, systemd timers, and at jobs in one printable reference — syntax cards, real-world job examples, and a safety checklist so you never fat-finger a production schedule again.
For mid-level IT professionals with 3–7 years of operations experience who are ready to move into a DevOps or Cloud Engineer role — and want a clear, opinionated path to get there in 2026.
Crack your DevOps/SRE interview in a weekend — scenario frameworks, K8s commands, CI/CD walkthroughs, and behavioral answers all in one cheat sheet bundle.
Land your next DevOps or SRE role faster — ATS-optimized resume templates, 2026 keyword lists, and scenario-based interview frameworks in one career bundle.
A practical guide + checklist bundle for IT admins migrating on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID in 2026 — covering Cloud Sync, legacy auth deprecation, Intune join strategy, and a phased migration checklist sysadmins can actually execute.
A practical guide and policy template bundle for sysadmins implementing Microsoft Entra ID Zero Trust — Conditional Access policies, MFA rollout, Privileged Identity Management basics, and a 30-day activation roadmap.
Show experienced sysadmins how their real-world deployment skills map directly to the fastest-growing AI-era role — Forward-Deployed Engineer — and give them a concrete path to land one at $200K+.
A Day-1 quickstart toolkit for IT admins managing Android fleets when Google's Gemini Intelligence — an OS-level agent layer expected to ship at I/O 2026 (May 19) — auto-updates onto corporate devices. Covers what the agent accesses, what admin-console policies control it, and how to size the blast radius before fleet rollout. Output is a copy-pasteable kit: policy decision tree, three-scenario playbook (legal, healthcare, general enterprise), Day-1 checklist, CISO memo template.
A free web calculator that estimates your monthly GitHub Copilot cost under the new metered AI Credits billing model based on your actual usage patterns.
Structured templates for capturing and handing off institutional IT knowledge when someone leaves — access deprovisioning checklist, system ownership matrix, undocumented-workaround interview guide, and a 30-day successor onboarding plan.
A structured checklist and scoring rubric for IT managers evaluating vendor AI clauses — data retention, model training rights, liability, and exit terms — before signing SaaS contracts that now bundle AI features by default.
A reusable template bundle — agenda, scoring rubric, TCO spreadsheet, and follow-up email pack — that gives IT managers a structured, repeatable process for evaluating and presenting vendor decisions to leadership.
A buyer's guide and cost-calculator worksheet for developers choosing between frontier and open-weight models on OpenRouter — showing when Kimi K2.6, DeepSeek, and Claude trade off on quality, speed, and price per task.
A printable PDF runbook with visual decision trees for the 15 most common Kubernetes failures — CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackoff, pending pods, OOMKilled, and more — turning a 45-minute debug spiral into a 5-minute checklist.
For junior-to-mid Linux sysadmins, cert studiers, and homelab operators who want organized command references — not another tab of man pages.
A hands-on guide for sysadmins and IT pros to deploy, configure, and secure local MCP servers — covering tool selection, auth patterns, network exposure controls, and integration with Claude Code and local LLMs.
Survive and improve every on-call rotation — runbook templates, alert triage flowcharts, escalation scripts, and a post-incident review framework in one downloadable bundle.
Deploy OpenClaw without putting your machine at risk — a sysadmin-grade security hardening guide.
Detect injected instructions in fetched content, audit tool call chains, and run agentic workflows safely — the prompt injection defense guide Anthropic hasn't written yet.
Stop piecing together blog posts. Migrate from VMware and run Proxmox right.
Plain-English Substack explainer of recursive reasoning architectures — what they are, why they're having a moment, and what they mean for the models you already use every day.
A practical toolkit for mid-career sysadmins ready to stop accepting stagnant pay and start making data-backed decisions about their compensation and career.
Step-by-step migration playbook for moving Windows and Linux VMs from ESXi to Proxmox VE — covering OVA/OVF export, storage migration, network reconfiguration, and post-migration validation checks.
For solo sysadmins and small IT teams managing Windows Server patching at SMBs — a practical guide and checklist bundle that turns a monthly fire drill into a repeatable process.