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Day 000 - Overview

Introduction I’ve finally decided to renew my focus on blogging about my adventures in IT. As it is only human to forget things over time, it is essential to have a good habit of documenting pretty much everything. As we are all living our busy lives, bringing up children, having hobbies outside of tech or just because “life happened”, it’s also a habit I’ve neglected for some time. So, what is the purpose of all this, you might ask?

Saturday, January 3, 2026 | 2 minutes Read
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Day 002 - Packer integration with 1Password

Example files for today can be found in my Continuous Learning repository at https://github.com/jantytgat/continuouslearning/tree/main/2023/day002 Introduction In college, I started tinkering with Debian (Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 - Woody) as my first introduction to other operating systems besides MS-DOS and Windows. The use of deb-packages through apt-get felt so natural that I never got around to using Red Hat or Fedora in a sensible way (yum always felt broken). I became a heavy user of Ubuntu Server in my homelab, which is still Debian-based, as I wanted to run some more bleeding-edge packages on my servers (at the cost of more maintenance and possible issues). Installing the operating system, however, turned out to be a tedious task if you have to do it over and over again. Creating a template soon became a thing using preseed files, specially with virtualization coming of age in the late 2000s. One of the remaining issues was that I had to keep my template up-to-date or be exposed to (sometimes) lengthy update/upgrade processes.

Monday, January 5, 2026 | 9 minutes Read
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Day 001 - Setting expectations

Introduction Welcome to day 1 of of my continuous learning track for 2023. As mentioned in the overview for 2023, I have a bunch of topics I want to learn more about. Of course, these expectations don’t come out of the blue, they apply either directly or indirectly to projects and ideas I’ve been working on. As you can read on the homepage of my blog, I specialize in management of NetScaler and Fortinet appliances. Products from both vendors generally require quite a bit of knowledge to operate efficiently, especially in the managed services arena. As I run these products in my homelab as well, I try to tinker with them as much as possible because I obviously don’t know everything. The list below is obviously just an initial starting point, as there will be many other topics to explore as a sidetrack.

Sunday, January 4, 2026 | 4 minutes Read