Are We Living in A Cosmic Ghost Town?
In the last post about the Observable Universe, I discussed the sheer scale of the cosmos and that mind-bending 46.5 billion light-year edge. But as I kept digging into how we actually…
Why We See Only a Fraction of the Universe
When I was reading about the universe’s age the other night, I stumbled onto a Wikipedia page about the “observable universe,” and it honestly blew my mind. It’s one of those things…
From /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.53: A Sysadmin’s View on DNS Resolution
If you’ve been managing systems since the days of AT&T Unix System V Release 3 (SVR3), you remember when networking was a manual affair. Name resolution often meant a massive, hand-curated /etc/hosts…
Book Review: Day by Day Armageddon Series
I recently finished all four books in the Day by Day Armageddon series on Audible. All of them are narrated by Jay Snider, who does an amazing job across the series. His…
Book Review: Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts
Stephen Coonts’ Flight of the Intruder takes readers straight into the tense, roaring heart of the Vietnam War — not from the jungles, but from the cockpit of an A-6 Intruder bomber.…