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Atrophy from disuse - Forgotten Debug Skills

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:58:59 +0000

Growing up, my mother repeatedly said “If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust!!”

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 nslookup, getent, host and dig commands. Then, your career shifts. You move into orchestrating Docker & CICD, managing IaC with Terraform, and focusing on cloud-native abstractions.

Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the “basics” has started to fade.

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000

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.

Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the “basics” has started to fade.

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000

Suddenly, you find yourself staring at a simple DNS issue, and it hits you: the muscle memory for the “basics” has started to fade.

Something I forgot ? Reclaiming the Fundamentals

Thu, 02 May 2024 08:58:59 +0000

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Mx Records on 📋 JayJay's DevOps Diaries ..

Atrophy from disuse - Forgotten Debug Skills

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Something I forgot ? Reclaiming the Fundamentals

🚧 IF YOU’ER SEEING THIS 🚧

* 🚦 THIS IS A POLITE NOTICE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS 🚥 **

THANKS FOR READING 🧐!

DO ENJOY YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS 😇!

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Mx Records on 📋 JayJay's DevOps Diaries ..

Atrophy from disuse - Forgotten Debug Skills

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Mother always said..'If you dont blow your trumpet, it would rust...'

Something I forgot ? Reclaiming the Fundamentals

**** 🚧 IF YOU’ER SEEING THIS 🚧 ****

*** 🚦 THIS IS A POLITE NOTICE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS 🚥 ****

THANKS FOR READING 🧐!

DO ENJOY YOURSELF IN THE PROCESS 😇!

************

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* 🚦 THIS IS A POLITE NOTICE THAT THIS ARTICLE IS A WORK-IN-PROGRESS 🚥 **