About The Ops Mechanic
I’ve been doing this since 1997—started on heavy iron back when “remote troubleshooting” meant driving to the data center at 2am. Unix, Cisco networking, EMC/NetApp storage. The kind of work where you learned to respect the fundamentals because the abstractions didn’t exist yet. These days I still live in Unix and write a fair amount of code (Python, Rust, whatever the problem needs). I’m an Emacs user who runs Evil mode—I like Vim motions because I can use the same muscle memory whether I’m in my editor or ssh’d into a box that only has vi. ...