SysAdmin Weekly #28: The Right Tool, The Real Cause

Right-size your tech, then go read your vendors' postmortems

Jul 2 • Andy Syrewicze

June 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #27: The Boring Wins

I rebuilt a four-month-old project's entire changelog from nothing but git diffs in twenty minutes. The scoping is the whole game.

Jun 25 • Andy Syrewicze

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SysAdmin Weekly #26: The Off-Switch You Don't Own

A frontier model went dark worldwide in 72 hours this month. Here is why that is an argument for owning your hardware...

Jun 18 • Andy Syrewicze

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SysAdmin Weekly #25: The Silicon Squeeze

When hyperscalers buy the fab capacity, you can't buy the parts...

Jun 11 • Andy Syrewicze

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May 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #24: Doom, Discounted

When the Headline Says Layoff, the Press Release Says Capex

May 21 • Andy Syrewicze

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SysAdmin Weekly #23: Build Something Nobody Asked For

The queue will be there Monday. Your curiosity might not be.

May 15 • Andy Syrewicze

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March 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #22: The Open Source Lifeline

When Big Tech Tightens Its Grip, Open Source Holds the Keys

Mar 5 • Andy Syrewicze

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February 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #21: The Great Compute Divide

When Big Tech Buys the GPUs and You’re Left With a Raspberry Pi

Feb 12 • Andy Syrewicze

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January 2026

SysAdmin Weekly #20: Managed Chaos Beats No Plan at All

Why incident response, backups, and curiosity still separate professionals from IT fire-fighters

Jan 29 • Andy Syrewicze

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SysAdmin Weekly #19: Trust, But Verify the Abstraction

Why understanding what's under the hood still matters

Jan 22 • Andy Syrewicze

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December 2025

SysAdmin Weekly #18: Craft, Shovelware, and the Cost of "Good Enough"

Why modern software keeps failing operators and why SysAdmins pay the price

Dec 17, 2025 • Andy Syrewicze

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October 2025

SysAdmin Weekly #17: Patch, Pivot, and the Path to Cyber Know-How

Bridging the gap between routine maintenance and real security mastery.

Oct 30, 2025 • Andy Syrewicze

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