Any good Sysadmin blogs for linux or even Windows?
Posted by human_with_humanity@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 24 comments
Looking for good blogs or even documentation sites for linux or even Windows sysadmin to learn better.
Planning to get better by reading and applying articles in my homelab.
If u know any good one please recommend.
Thank you.
Skaarj@reddit
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
Adorable-One362@reddit
any one looking for sysadmin for mac, you cant go wrong with Der Flounder, https://derflounder.wordpress.com/
mmmboppe@reddit
the community of the Linux distro of your choice likely has a few visible competent contributors who have blogs
see https://blog.slackware.nl for example
ButterflyMundane7187@reddit
Good sysadmins do not have time to blog
RvstiNiall@reddit
Good sysadmins learn how to automate and orchestrate enough stuff that they have free time to read and write blogs at home, off the clock.
Pls_Sqrrl@reddit
https://xkcd.com/1319/
ButterflyMundane7187@reddit
Influencer sysadmins create an unintended intelligence surface because advanced threat actors now aggregate personal content, behavioral patterns, and technical preferences to profile entire organizations. Even when no internal details are shared, public posts reveal skill gaps, tool choices, and operational habits that sophisticated espionage teams can exploit. Modern attackers don’t rely on direct leaks; they correlate metadata, language patterns, and recurring themes to infer likely technologies and defensive maturity. A sysadmin with a public persona becomes a predictable, observable target, making social engineering, profiling, and long‑term infiltration significantly easier. In high‑risk industries, that exposure is unacceptable.
Apprehensive_Milk520@reddit
SPOT ON.
lilguy2002@reddit
This is complete and utter nonsense that you have made up in your head.
RvstiNiall@reddit
I mean, you can blog as a sysadmin or programmer without it being influencer level. You can do it as a proof of concept for resume purposes, or even just a friends and family thing. Hell you can blog for absolutely nobody other than yourself. Sometimes it's useful for getting your thoughts out there in the world.
It's definitely possible to blog without being aggregated by AI in any usable fashion. Simply don't use any special publishing platforms, self hosted or not... Do everything the old fashioned way with HTML and CSS. Don't use SEO, or even list your page. And add random glyphs rendered invisible and microscopic to your paragraphs so that it's rendered obfuscated enough to AI that they can't use it for anything, but so that it's still human readable.
This is just basic web admin stuff. You can always use Sysadmin stuff to go even further... Like black-listing known AI domains, or entire regions. I mean there's tons of ways you could go about this side of the problem if you wanted. (The whole robots.txt thing is ignored by AI but use it anyways because why not?)
fearless-fossa@reddit
Even a mediocre sysadmin always should have the time to (theoretically) write a blog because writing a blog isn't any more than recapitulating a project, documenting what was done and researching alternatives - all parts of what you already do for your documentation at work.
ButterflyMundane7187@reddit
Read below about the securety.
fearless-fossa@reddit
Security by obscurity has never actually achieved security.
You want other people to poke holes into your concepts so that you can fix them. We're all cooking with water, we all have the same 2 - 3 products available for task x - sysadmining isn't rocket science.
DaftPump@reddit
The hell they don't. A good sysadmin group is sysadmins who can read and work on things because the back end is already documented, predictable(as possible) and has a manager who understands that. I had two bosses like that, they're worth their weight in gold in this profession.
lilguy2002@reddit
Good sysadmins absolutely have time to read blogs because ACTUALLY good sysadmins are never resting on their laurels.
ButterflyMundane7187@reddit
If i ask you do you blog? You awser yes. Do you mean you read blogs or write blogs? try again buddy
lilguy2002@reddit
You wanna try that again?
WCSTombs@reddit
I think this one's not bad: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
BinkReddit@reddit
Read the Arch and Gentoo Wikis. Then do it again.
aioeu@reddit
If you're looking for a blog specifically, I recommend Chris Siebenmann's. He writes daily on the things he's working on as a sysadmin at the University of Toronto.
Knopper100@reddit
Lpic-1 learning materials are pretty good
Anantha_datta@reddit
nixcraft and the geek stuff are pretty solid, tecmint too if you want more step by step guides also r/sysadmin and r/linuxadmin are honestly underrated, lots of real world stuff there for homelab learning i usually mix blogs and forums and sometimes ai tools like Runable just to understand things quicker when docs get confusing what are you running in your homelab rn.
Happy_Phantom@reddit
gainan@reddit
r/homelab subreddit is interesting, for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1qgkyf5/comment/o0ddovz/
Also r/linuxadmin