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After a (very) long hiatus from gaming I recently got back into Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) and it has reignited some of my creative writing as well. Tips, tricks, and stories abound! Come along for the adventure!

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As a professional creator in DevRel and product marketing, I like to share my thoughts on what I’ve been learning about, how to improve your DevRel craft, and how to connect and help your community. Being in DevRel is honestly one of the most satisfying career tracks I’ve had!

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Latest articles

  • Tutorial: How to Remediate Vulnerabilities with Puppet Enterprise Advanced Patching

    Tutorial: How to Remediate Vulnerabilities with Puppet Enterprise Advanced Patching

    This blog first appeared on 2025-08-07 at puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/vulnerability-remediation-puppet-advanced-patching The rate at which vulnerabilities are being exploited is on the rise. The VulnCheck company, which specializes in vulnerability intelligence, found that in Q1 2025, 28.3% of vulnerabilities were exploited within 1 day of CVE disclosure. Keeping your systems up to date is more important than ever. The… Read more

  • Puppet Enterprise: New Releases and a New Product Lifecycle

    Puppet Enterprise: New Releases and a New Product Lifecycle

    This post originally appeared on 2025-08-06 at dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-enterprise-new-releases-and-a-new-product-lifecycle-4knn Lots of news in the Puppet Enterprise world this week! There are new releases of Puppet Enterprise (PE) 2023.8.5 and 2025.5 (PE and PE Advanced), big changes to the Puppet Enterprise Lifecycle, and a new EOL announced for Comply 2.x. Let’s dig in! 📢 Puppet Enterprise… Read more

  • Developing Modules for Puppet and the Forge in 2025

    Developing Modules for Puppet and the Forge in 2025

    This blog first appeared on 2025-07-03 at puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/puppet-module-developer-eula-faq Since announcing changes to our OSS plans as well as introducing the new licensing starting with PDK 3.5.0, the team has received questions from the community around how the changes will affect them. In this article, we’ll highlight some helpful resources about how you can develop and contribute to… Read more

  • Tutorial: Visualize Your Puppet Data in Grafana with the Observability Data Connector

    Tutorial: Visualize Your Puppet Data in Grafana with the Observability Data Connector

    This article was originally published on 2025-07-24 on puppet.com: https://www.puppet.com/blog/tutorial-puppet-grafana-observability When you manage complex IT infrastructure, it becomes critical to use tooling to understand what’s happening across all of your systems in terms of performance, reliability, and compliance. Monitoring key indicators manually is simply no longer possible at that scale. Puppet has long been known as… Read more

  • Puppet Security Compliance Management (SCM) 3.5.0 and Puppet Comply 2.25.0 are now available!

    Puppet Security Compliance Management (SCM) 3.5.0 and Puppet Comply 2.25.0 are now available!

    Originally appeared July 14th on dev.to: https://dev.to/puppet/puppet-security-compliance-management-scm-350-and-puppet-comply-2250-are-now-available-3n23 What’s new? Flexible Java management  The Comply module now includes the option to use a locally installed Java runtime, instead of the Java bundled with the CIS-CAT Pro Assessor.  This enhancement is ideal for customers with specific Java version requirements or those looking to align with internal security… Read more

  • The Tomb of Kaulu | Dark Invasion of Lani

    The Tomb of Kaulu | Dark Invasion of Lani

    The darkness of the tunnel was oppressive. Durwood’s hand was firmly on the shoulder of the dwarven cleric ahead of him, clutching tightly to the only thing that felt like safety. Somewhere ahead, seemingly very far away, were the flickering pulses of mage lights and the faint sounds of metal scraping and shuffling feet. Durwood’s… Read more