<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Linux on 📋 JayJay's DevOps Diaries ..</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/categories/linux/</link><description>Recent content in Linux on 📋 JayJay's DevOps Diaries ..</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 08:58:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://halfknown.co.uk/categories/linux/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Quick Reference guide for my AWS – Consolidated Study Notes</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/aws-quick-ref/</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/aws-quick-ref/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Before you proceed&lt;/strong> &lt;em>This is a raw, unadulterated, bullet‑point version of my study notes, I created following the &lt;strong>
&lt;a href="https://thinkcloudly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ThinkCloudy&lt;/a> AWS Solutions Architect curriculum&lt;/strong> and supplemented with specific &lt;strong>YouTube tutorials&lt;/strong> referenced below.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>For full description and detailed version, you can find it 
&lt;a href="http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/study-aws/">here&lt;/a>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>
&lt;a href="http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/study-aws/">AWS Solutions Architect Certification – Consolidated Study Notes&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;em>&lt;strong>Once again, these documents are currently incomplete as I am actively consolidating and adding more content as I progress through my studies.&lt;/strong>&lt;/em>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>AWS Solutions Architect Certification – Consolidated Study Notes</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/study-aws/</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/study-aws/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;strong>Before you proceed:&lt;/strong> &lt;em>Like my other articles, these notes started as my own personal study material. I fed them to AI only for better flow, aesthetics, and to fill in small gaps. While the final result looks refined, it is not purely AI‑generated.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;em>I wrote all the core content myself, following the &lt;strong>
&lt;a href="https://thinkcloudly.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ThinkCloudy&lt;/a> AWS Solutions Architect curriculum&lt;/strong> and using specific &lt;strong>YouTube tutorials&lt;/strong> as referenced below.&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>If you&amp;rsquo;d prefer to view the unadulterated version of my notes, they are found 
&lt;a href="http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/aws-quick-ref/">here&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Atrophy from disuse - Forgotten Debug Skills</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/iloveit/</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/pages/iloveit/</guid><description>&lt;p>Growing up, my mother repeatedly said &lt;strong>&amp;ldquo;If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust!!&amp;rdquo;&lt;/strong>&lt;/p>
&lt;p>It happens to all of us. You spend years in the trenches of systems administration, mastering the intricacies of &lt;strong>BIND 9&lt;/strong>, manually tweaking &lt;code>MX records&lt;/code>, and living inside &lt;code>nslookup&lt;/code>, &lt;code>getent&lt;/code>, &lt;code>host&lt;/code> and &lt;code>dig&lt;/code> commands. Then, your career shifts. You move into orchestrating &lt;strong>Docker &amp;amp; CICD&lt;/strong>, managing &lt;strong>IaC with Terraform&lt;/strong>, and focusing on cloud-native abstractions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the &amp;ldquo;basics&amp;rdquo; has started to fade.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/mother-said-copy/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/mother-said-copy/</guid><description>&lt;p>It happens to all of us. You spend years in the trenches of systems administration, mastering the intricacies of BIND 9, manually tweaking MX records, and living inside getent and dig commands. Then, your career shifts. You move into orchestrating Kubernetes, managing IaC with Terraform, and focusing on cloud-native abstractions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the &amp;ldquo;basics&amp;rdquo; has started to fade.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/mother-said/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/mother-said/</guid><description>&lt;p>It happens to all of us. You spend years in the trenches of systems administration, mastering the intricacies of BIND 9, manually tweaking MX records, and living inside getent and dig commands. Then, your career shifts. You move into orchestrating Kubernetes, managing IaC with Terraform, and focusing on cloud-native abstractions.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the &amp;ldquo;basics&amp;rdquo; has started to fade.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>Something I forgot ? Reclaiming the Fundamentals</title><link>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/iloveit/</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000</pubDate><guid>http://halfknown.co.uk/stash/iloveit/</guid><description>&lt;h3 id="-------------if-youer-seeing-this--------">**** 🚧 IF YOU&amp;rsquo;ER SEEING THIS 🚧 ****&lt;/h3>
&lt;h4 id="---this-is-a-polite-notice-that-this-article-is-a-work-in-progress--">*** 🚦 THIS IS A POLITE NOTICE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS 🚥 ****&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>&lt;em>This article is currently being tweaked, drafted and is not yet complete. I’m sharing it early to document my process, so feel free to take a look at the current progress. I expect to finalize the content in my next commit&lt;/em>&lt;/p>
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&lt;h4 id="do-enjoy-yourself-in-the-process-">DO ENJOY YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS 😇!&lt;/h4>
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