The WordPress era is over. This site now runs on Hugo with the Blowfish theme, deployed via Cloudflare Pages. More posts coming soon. Ok, now that the AI generated content is out of the way let’s talk about the fact that this is site is once again on the move, this time to the Hugo platform. This is a fairly popular move right now and for me it was inspired by finding the excellent work of Matt Broberg as he continues his public learning and living. Along the way there’s been a lot of discussion with others and in part Tim Smith and I have worked our way through this in very similar ways. You can read more about his journey from WordPress to Hugo and probably see a lot of similarities to what you see here.

Note: This post originally appeared on the 11:11 Systems blog. To read the company published version please see https://1111systems.com/blog/navigating-ai-in-it-balancing-innovation-privacy-and-expertise/. Let’s be honest: if you work in IT right now, your feed is basically 50% AI hype, 40% AI fear, and 10% confused memes about both. Depending on who you ask, AI is either coming for your job, coming for everyone’s job, or going to “free you up to do more strategic work” (which somehow always looks a lot like “do the same work, just faster, with fewer people”).

As a modern social media based society we’ve found it very easy to do movements, experiments, and concepts in marketing-approved monthly form. No shave November. Blogtober. Hacktoberfest. So on and so on. Here of late I’ve noticed that I am leaning way too hard into the the whole brain rot of it all and thought I’d roll my own version of this concept; Offline October, where I delete all the social media apps from my devices and stop doom scrolling as a way to pass the time.

As we head into September 2025 I look back and find that August has been quite the “Veeamy” month for me; I’ve put out a number of Veeam related posts (here, here, here, and here), had a number of Veeam 100 briefings and last week was able to register for this year’s Veeam 100 Summit. While August seemed for the community side of Veeam to be big the rest of year appears ready to be heavy on the software side of things with the upcoming v13 release(s) of their flagship product, Veeam Backup and Replication.

In my last post I started going down the rabbit hole of creating analytic data about, well, my data, specifically that data that’s located in AWS S3. In that post I discussed the hows and whys of enabling Access Logging for S3 buckets which is exceptionally important from a security perspective. In many cases when it comes to object storage generally and AWS S3 in particular it is also important to know what the demographics of your data looks like as well and this is where AWS Storage Lens and S3 Inventory comes in.