Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-20 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-01-19 16:16, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2022-01-19 11:44, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2022-01-07 20:43, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote: then got back into programming, because it was a "thing" to automate networks. It's now my full time job, and I enjoy it

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-19 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-01-19 11:44, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: On 2022-01-07 20:43, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote: then got back into programming, because it was a "thing" to automate networks. It's now my full time job, and I enjoy it a ton. The network to code slack is full of network

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-19 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-01-09 23:53, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:06:27 -0700 He mentions Python - is that the programming language to know for server automation? I think Python 3 is the language for *everybody* to know. It's easy enough that

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-19 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-01-07 20:43, Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss wrote: I'm in the opposite realm - was a programmer and kind of an admin (glorified script kiddie?), went into networking, and then got back into programming, because it was a "thing" to automate networks. It's now my full time job, and I

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-19 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-01-07 17:57, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a lot of devs showing up in

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-09 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Fri, 07 Jan 2022 17:06:27 -0700 >He mentions Python - is that the programming language to know for >server automation? I think Python 3 is the language for *everybody* to know. It's easy enough that most people know it, it's got a standard library so

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Thomas Scott via PLUG-discuss
I'm in the opposite realm - was a programmer and kind of an admin (glorified script kiddie?), went into networking, and then got back into programming, because it was a "thing" to automate networks. It's now my full time job, and I enjoy it a ton. The network to code slack is full of network

Re: Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
With the whole transition to libera.chat for irc and taking some time off from work, I've taken to hanging out there a bit, and this is a common thing I'm seeing in the #networking chat. I'm seeing a lot of devs showing up in #networking asking for hosting/sysadmin stuff lots, ala "how to make

Demand for programmers who know system admin stuff

2022-01-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi, I've watched more than a few of NetworkChuck's videos. Here he is on a programmer's channel talking about programmers learning networking. I've always thought all web programmers have some Linux skills, and maybe that is not what he is talking about.