I’m Eric “IT Guy” Hendricks, a Technical Product Marketer who turns open source, Linux, and infrastructure work into stories people actually understand.
Kansas City, MO, USA
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#TechTipThursday: you didn't actually lose that commit.
git reflog
Every place HEAD has been, even after a bad rebase or hard reset. Find the hash, reset back to it.
Git almost never forgets. It just stops telling you.
#Git #DevOps #CLI
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.@FrameworkPuter has no storefront. What it has is a laptop that ships with #Fedora on it and a screwdriver in the box.
Michael Tunnell joins us on Fedora Podcast 61 on the Laptop 12 and the Fedora KDE preload.
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#Framework #Linux
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Starting somewhere new? Keep a list of everything that confuses you in the first month.
By week six you'll stop noticing any of it. That list is feedback only the new person can give.
#Productivity #Onboarding #NewJob
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Watched a sales rep read a roadmap slide to a customer as guaranteed ship dates. That's when I got why PMs get twitchy.
A roadmap is intent, not a calendar.
itguyeric.com/blog/whats-in-…
#ProductMarketing #ProductManagement
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Friday rule I try to keep and mostly fail at: the laptop closes at a set time, not when the work runs out.
Work never runs out. If I let it decide when I'm done, I'm never done.
What marks the end of your week?
#WorkLife #Productivity
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#TechTipThursday: stop losing long jobs to a dropped SSH session.
tmux new -s migration
Runs on the server, not your terminal. Ctrl+b then d to detach, close the laptop, then:
tmux attach -t migration
Still running, right where you left it.
#Linux #SysAdmin #tmux
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Unpopular opinion: your documentation is doing more selling than your website is.
Technical buyers don't start on your homepage. They start in your docs, because that's where they find out if the thing does what you claim.
#ProductMarketing #DevRel #DevTools
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New post: session 1 of my solo Savage Worlds campaign in The Last Parsec.
A colony that was never abandoned, and a station AI distributed across 52 human bodies. Every D&D instinct said boss fight. I talked instead.
itguyeric.com/blog/savage-wo…
#SavageWorlds #SoloRPG #TTRPG
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New post: the shape I use for every blog post, plus the two blocks that come before I write a word.
The sneaky one is drafting the social copy first. If you can't write a good hook for it, the post probably doesn't have one either.
itguyeric.com/blog/creating-…
#Writing #Blogging
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Friday confession: the R720 is still in colo, sounding like a jet engine, and they just raised my rates.
Got a full spec for its replacement weeks ago. Have I acted? No. The research became the hobby.
Turns out the cure for paralysis is an invoice.
#Homelab #SelfHosting
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Episode 60 of the Fedora Podcast is out.
Justin Wheeler is handing the Fedora Community Architect role to Shaun McCance, who keeps the CentOS seat too. Both came on to explain what the job actually is.
piped.video/h5qoj9bEEOI
#Fedora #CentOS #Linux
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Stop drowning in logs:
journalctl -p err -b
Every error from the current boot, nothing else. Add -u nginx -f to follow one service live.
Logs are like receipts. Useless until you desperately need one.
#Linux #SysAdmin #TechTipThursday
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Productivity tip I keep relearning: your brain is RAM, not storage.
Anything in your head runs in the background and vanishes when you get interrupted. Write it down the second it appears, same place every time.
Free up the RAM.
#Productivity #WorkSmarter
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New post: degree vs cert vs experience.
They answer different questions. And the cert half needs a split people skip: passing a multiple choice test isn't the same as fixing a broken system on the clock.
itguyeric.com/blog/degree-vs…
#Career #Linux #SysAdmin
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This episode is literally going to cost my thousands of dollars 😆
One of the best parts of 45HomeLab? You don’t have to buy more system than you need. 🙌
On The IT Guy Show, Zack Perry breaks down the flexibility behind 45HomeLab’s three build tiers from bare-bones options for people who already have their own components, all the way to fully built, stress-tested systems ready to go.
We had a great time chatting with Eric about open, repairable homelab hardware, choosing the right system for your setup, and everything in between.
@itguyeric
🎙️ Watch the full episode: “Open, Repairable Homelab Hardware with 45HomeLab | The IT Guy Show 027” on The IT Guy Show.
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Job hunting productivity tip: track it like a pipeline.
Applying into the void feels productive and mostly isn't. Give every application a row: company, date, contact, follow up. You stop guessing and start seeing where it actually stalls.
#JobSearch #Productivity
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#TechTipThursday: installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora.
Skip the .run file from NVIDIA's site. Enable RPM Fusion nonfree, then:
sudo dnf install akmod-nvidia
Give it a few minutes to build before you reboot. Secure Boot? You'll need to sign it.
#Linux #Fedora #NVIDIA
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