Nick Howell
Still learning.
Still building.
Still calling out the hype.
30 years of enterprise infrastructure. Storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, AI inference, home lab, and whatever else is worth writing about this week.
Recent Writing
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What Even Is Vibe Coding?
Everyone’s either mocking the phrase or evangelizing it. Both camps are missing the point. “Vibe coding” is a dumb name for something that’s actually reshaping who gets to build software, and what your 20 years of infrastructure experience is suddenly worth in that world. I have opinions. Lots of them.
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Modernization Without the Meltdown
For the last two years, enterprise IT shops running hypervisor environments have been staring at a short menu of bad options. The NetApp and Nutanix alliance just added a fourth one.
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