The IT Guy Show
Navigating Technology and Careers
Displaying items 1-10 of 19 in total of The IT Guy Show with the tag "techcommunity".
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Episode 25: The Homelab SLA
July 21st, 2026 | 41 mins 15 secs
cloud native, devops, devrel, digitaltransformation, high cardinality, homelab sla, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, linux, metrics, monitoring, observability, opensource, prometheus, shiftmon, solutions engineer, techcommunity, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips, time series database, uptime, victorialogs, victoriametrics
Most of us treat our homelabs like a junk drawer. Something breaks, we shrug, we fix it whenever we get around to it. Mathias Palmersheim does not operate that way.
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Episode 24: Learn to Play Tabletop Role Playing Games
July 8th, 2026 | 59 mins 28 secs
devops, digitaltransformation, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, linux, opensource, techcommunity, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips
We covered the basics of TTRPGs, walked through systems like D&D, Savage Worlds, and Dungeon World, and then built a one-shot together live with the audience. The room gave me a 97 year old Elf Wizard named Ethan on a desperate mission to save his favorite tiki bar from burning down. The villain was named Bob. He stole all the turtles. The tacos were at stake. It went exactly as chaotic as you'd expect.
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Episode 23: Keep It Techie
May 28th, 2026 | 43 mins 37 secs
apartment homelab, colocation, data center, dell poweredge, devops, digitaltransformation, gigabit fiber, home lab, home networking, hypervisor, infrastructure, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, keep it techie, linux, local llm, minecraft server, noise management, opensource, plex, power consumption, rack servers, self-hosting, subscription fatigue, techcommunity, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips, thermal management
Home labs have evolved from hobbyist experiments to essential infrastructure for tech professionals, but knowing when to build one…and how…isn't always clear.
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Episode 22: A Human in the Middle
May 12th, 2026 | 1 hr 6 mins
ai, aiatwork, aitools, artificialintelligence, chatgpt, devops, devrel, digitaltransformation, eric the it guy, futureofwork, generativeai, highereducation, humanjudgment, it, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, karlabbott, knowledgework, liberalarts, linux, llm, machinelearning, opensource, productivity, red hat, softwarengineering, techcommunity, techleadership, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips, vibecoding
AI is everywhere, and so is the fear that it's coming for your job. But what if the real story is more interesting than that?
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Episode 15: DevLife with Chris DeMars
October 7th, 2025 | 43 mins
accessibility, chris demars, developeradvocate, developerexperience, developerrelations, devempathy, devrel, devtools, eric the it guy, frontenddev, itguyeric, nerdculture, opensource, techcareer, techcommunity, technicalmarketing, techpodcast, techspeaking, webdev
What happens when two nerds who love the community side of tech get together? A whole lot of stories, laughs, and insights.
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Episode 14: Life as a SysAdmin with Nate Lager
September 23rd, 2025 | 1 hr 14 mins
automation, careerstories, devops, eric the it guy, infrastructure, infrastructureascode, itguyeric, linux, nate lager, oncalllife, opensource, redhat, sres, sysadmin, sysadminlife, systemadministration, techcareer, techcommunity, technerds, techpodcast
The role of the system administrator has changed a lot in the last couple decades, but some of us are still proudly flying the flag.
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Episode 13: How I Became a SysAdmin
September 9th, 2025 | 32 mins 1 sec
bash, careerpath, devops, eric the it guy, homelab, howigotstarted, infrastructure, itcareer, itguyeric, itlife, itpodcast, linux, opensource, serveradmin, sysadmin, systemadministrator, techcareers, techcommunity, techjourney, techstory
Before DevOps, SRE, and the cloud were all the rage, there were sysadmins—tech generalists who kept the lights on, often with duct tape, bash scripts, and caffine.
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Episode 11: NixOS: The Distro That Thinks Code
August 12th, 2025 | 24 mins 12 secs
aaron honeycutt, ahoneybun, configurationmanagement, devops, eric the it guy, flake, homelab, itguyeric, linux, linuxadmin, linuxdesktop, linuxdistro, nix, nixenv, nixos, nixpkgs, nixstore, opensource, reproducibleinfrastructure, techcommunity, techpodcast
For many Linux users, configuration means dotfiles, bash scripts, and duct tape. But what if your entire system, from packages to users to services could be described, versioned, and rolled back like code?
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Episode 10: GitOps for the Linux Administrator
July 29th, 2025 | 42 mins 16 secs
devops, digitaltransformation, eric the it guy, git, gitops, infrastructureascode, it, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, kubernetes, linux, linuxadmin, linuxsysadmin, opensource, platformengineering, red hat, site reliability engineering, sre, techcommunity, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips
GitOps can feel like buzzword soup, especially for seasoned Linux admins who’ve spent years mastering bash, cron, and config files. But what if it’s not as scary—or as different—as it sounds?
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Rebooting Eric the IT Guy: Where I’ve Been & What’s Next
May 1st, 2025 | 1 min 9 secs
devops, digitaltransformation, itguyeric, itknowledge, itpodcast, itprofessionals, itsupport, linux, opensource, techcommunity, technews, technology, techpodcast, techtips
After a few months away from the mic, I’m back—and rebooting Eric the IT Guy not just as a brand, but as a mission.