Jonatan Jonasson

Adding F-U-N into IT

Working in tech can be fun, and you can make it even more fun for everyone involved! There’s absolutely no need to be so serious all the time. Sure, I’ve received a comment about not being “professional” when I configured our proxy/ADC to present 🐶(dog) & 🐱(cat) pictures on certain HTTP error codes. (see example […]

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2024 [LinkedIn] rewind

With everyone doing the coauthor LinkedIn Rewind like it’s early facebook games days, I didn’t want to be left out. Since it doesn’t require a login, and any email will do, there isn’t really a privacy or a security risk to be vary of.(Yes, that also means you can see what coauthor says about your

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Attend to ascend!

This evening I attended my second volleyball practice.(My ankle is almost healed.)Even if I say so myself, there was a noticeable improvement from last week.I know this will probably continue like this for 4-8 weeks, and then the improvement will stop. Or more accurately, stop being short-term noticeable. You see, the same thing happens whether

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Recertifications

-364 days I opened my inbox last Thursday, which I obviously shouldn’t have (it’s a public holiday), to be greeted with a certification reminder I got the day before telling me that some of my certifications expire in one year. One of the neat things Cisco has introduced in the past years is the option

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Championship continued

Happy! Excited! Grateful! Some of the words that describe how I felt mid-March, when I got an email welcoming me back to the Cisco Champions for the year 2024. So what is it?Using some of the highlights from the 2024 application as a reference, members: In order for everyone to feel included and create the

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Book goals 2023

One of my goals for 2023 was to read (or listen to) more books, not just whatever I’m studying for. Thinking back, I wasn’t sure if I reached my goal, but then I read over my listening stats email from Audible. 3,017 minutes… or ~50 hours of listening!This is in addition to reading The Phoenix

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Studying & workouts

I just realized that my motivation for working out (I never liked going to the gym) is a lot similar to how I approach studying. I mean, “getting into shape” as a goal is similar to “gaining knowledge” as a goal. And “be better at networking/python/whatever” is a lot like “be more healthy/eat better.”Either way,

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