Most of what I know about running networks came from other people’s write-ups — a forum thread from 2014, a vendor mailing-list post, a colleague’s runbook someone forwarded me. Rarely from official documentation. This blog is me paying that back.

What I’ll write about

The day job is building and operating networks across a lot of geographies — multi-cloud backbone, BGP policy, and the automation that keeps a sprawling multi-vendor estate honest. That last part is where the interesting problems live. Not “how does BGP work” but:

• Why a route that looks correct in show ip bgp still doesn’t get used
• What breaks when your source of truth disagrees with the devices
• How to roll out a change to 11 sites without holding your breath

What this isn’t

Not a beginner tutorial site. Not a vendor fan page. If you’re looking for “what is a VLAN,” there are a thousand better resources, and I’ll link them when relevant.

How it’s built

git clone <your-repo> blog
cd blog
npm install
npm run dev     # http://localhost:4321

Then write a Markdown file in src/content/blog/, push, and it’s live.

What	Where
Posts	src/content/blog/*.md
Site title, socials	src/consts.ts
Homepage	src/pages/index.astro
Domain	astro.config.mjs

Posts are plain Markdown in git, which means the history of what I thought was true in 2026 is still there in 2029 when I’ve learned better.