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2025

Casting Home Assistant Dashboards to Google Nest Hub 2nd Gen - Take 2
Migrating From Sonoff ZBDongle-P to SMLIGHT SLZB-MRW10 in Zigbee2MQTT
VMware Critical Security Advisory: VMSA-2025-0013
vSphere 8: Error Installing HA components failed
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VMware Explore on Tour 2025: London
VCF / VVF 9 Deprecation Notices
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ESX to ESXi and Back Again
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VCF 9.0 Is Here — What Does That Mean?
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phpIPAM to Homepage
Seamless Home Assistant NFC Automations on iPhone
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2024

Ghostty — Workaround for Missing or Unsuitable Terminal xterm-ghostty
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Beware Of The Rogue VMs!
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Rickrolling WiFi at VMware Explore Barcelona 2024
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GL-iNet Opal (GL-SFT1200) Travel Router: First Impressions
My Updated Pi-Hole Setup
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Driver Issues When Updating VMware ESXi With vLCM Images
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VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona Content Catalog Is Now Live
vCenter Upgrade 8.0 U3a vSphere Lifecycle Manager Port Issues
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VMware vSphere CVE-2024-37085 - A Nothing Burger
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Where Did My VMware Security Advisories Go? They Went Here!
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VMware by Broadcom Promises Free Security Updates for vSphere
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Vaultwarden+Caddy and Microsoft CA
Migrating from Unifi USG to UXG-Lite
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Let's Talk Data by Proact
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2023

Removing vCLS Machines in vSphere 7.0.3
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Fun and Games With WLED, ESP32, IKEA UPPLYST and Home Assistant
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Down the Rabbit Hole With VMware Aria Automation Config @ Explore 2023 [VMTN2239BCN]
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VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona Partner Leadership Forum
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vSphere Distributed Switch Configuration on Some Hosts Differed From That of the vCenter Server
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Updating Shodan Monitor Assets via REST API and Curl
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Tips for VMware Explore Barcelona 2023
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VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona: My Sessions
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Using vSphere Datasets in Salt
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Tech X 300 2023: Wrapped
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VMware vSphere 8 U2 Announced at Explore 2023
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VMware vSAN 8 U2 to the Max
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VMware vSAN 8 U2 Announced at Explore 2023
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iOS VPN Connection Toggle Shortcut
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VMUG TechX 300 Here I Come!
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IT Architect Series: Stories From the Field, Volume 2
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Upgrading to vCenter 8 Update 1: Invalid Type, expected String, instead got NoneType
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Are Your (old) ESXi Hosts Publicly Available? — They won't be for long.
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VMware Explore 2023 Dates and Venues
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My Experience: VCP-DCV for vSphere 7.x 2V0-21.20 Exam
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2022

Leveling Up: My First VMUG Presentation
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CloudBytes Podcast — Season 3
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VMware vCenter CVE-2022-31697
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vSAN 8 ESA VMware Compatibility Guidance
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My First VMware Explore
VMware vSAN 8 ESA in my Homelab
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VMware Explore Europe 2022: My Immediate Thoughts
VMware vSphere 8 — The Enterprise Workload Platform Announced!
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VMware vSAN 8 Announced — New Architecture Model!
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Expired VMware vCenter certificates
VMware issues Updated ESXi SD card USB Boot Device Guidance
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Patching Dell Optiplex 7090 UFF
Installing Tanzu Community Edition on vSphere — Some Quick Notes
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The Home Lab: 2022 Edition
VMware vSphere 7 Update 3c Finally Released
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Caddy 2: A Couple of Simple Use Cases
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Casting Home Assistant Dashboards to Google Nest Hub 2nd Gen

2021

Combined Pi-Hole Statistics in Home Assistant
Hot Add NVMe Device Caused PSOD on ESXi
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ESXi SD-Card/USB boot devices unsupported in 7.0u3
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Upgrading to ESXi 7.0 build 18426014 U2c. ESXi stuck in Not responding from vCenter
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On the Line with Cohesity Podcast Episode 42: Back to Travel and VMworld 2021 with Christian Mohn
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The On-Premise IT Roundtable Podcast: It’s Time to Embrace the Bottlenecks in Storage
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Storage Field Day #22 — Here We Go
vSoup Is Back!
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ESXi 7.0 SD Card/USB Drive Issue Temporary Workaround
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Searching vCenter Tasks and Events via PowerShell and GridView
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ESXi: Error Occurred While Saving Snapshot Msg.changetracker
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ESXi 7.0 U2a Potentially Killing USB and SD drives!
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Creating an Elgato Stream Deck Sleep Button in macOS
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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Videos
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VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 Announced
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VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Videos
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VMware vSAN 7.0 Update 2 Announced
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Is Your VMware vCenter Publicly Available?
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Norwegian vExperts 2021
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Making a Node-RED Twitter Bot
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How I Use Home Assistant: Part 4 — Automatically Enable and Disable Sonos Night Mode with Node-RED
How I Use Home Assistant: Part 3 — Morning Coffee
How I Use Home Assistant: Part 2 — Light Color Changes for Calendar Based Events with Node-RED
How I Use Home Assistant: Part 1 — My Setup

2020

Forward Looking Statements: 2021 Edition
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Automating Elgato Key Lights From macOS Touch Bar
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Using VMware Validated Design Stencils in Draw.io
Issues Connecting Elgato Key Light Air to Ubiquiti UniFi Wireless Networks
vExpert 2021 Applications are now Open!
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macOS: Aggregate Device for Teams - Fixing Auto-Adjusting Mic Level
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VMworld 2020: vCommunity Discord
Photon OS 3.0 Template Gotcha
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VMworld 2020: vTrail Map
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IT Architect Series: Stories From the Field, Vol. 1
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VMware vSphere 7 Update 1 With Tanzu News
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VMware Announcements September 2020 — The Resource List
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vNinja 10 Years
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macOS: Split Tunnel L2TP VPN Routing
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macOS: Hiding Menu Bar Icons With Dozer
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