https://mikesisk.com/ The latest blog posts by Mike Sisk. en-us https://mikesisk.com/blog/scif-weather/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/scif-weather/index.html Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT At Boeing, my office is in a thing called a SCIF, pronounced “skiff.” This is short for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. https://mikesisk.com/blog/internet-upgrade/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/internet-upgrade/index.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Did a bit of an internet upgrade. https://mikesisk.com/blog/boron/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/boron/index.html Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT The summer after high school, I didn’t head straight for a factory floor or a fast-food counter like many of my friends. I found myself in a chemistry lab. Not the kind of lab where you mix food dye and vinegar, but one where we worked with boron-10 isotopes for the nuclear industry. It was heady stuff for an 18-year-old who had just taken every chemistry course his high school could offer. https://mikesisk.com/blog/first-job/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/first-job/index.html Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT I got my first summer job at age 16 working in a food processing plant in my hometown of Joplin Missouri. https://mikesisk.com/blog/bug-we-could-not-fix/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/bug-we-could-not-fix/index.html Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Years ago at Rackspace, I found myself running the Cloud DNS product. https://mikesisk.com/blog/dynamite/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/dynamite/index.html Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT In the mid-’80s, while most of my college friends were flipping burgers or bailing hay, I spent my summers at the IRECO explosives plant in Carthage, Missouri. My title was “assistant to the facility engineer,” but in practice, it meant I was part draftsman, part surveyor, part construction supervisor — and sometimes an unwilling witness to absurdly dangerous behavior. https://mikesisk.com/blog/why-i-got-my-ham-radio-license/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/why-i-got-my-ham-radio-license/index.html Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT I got my ham radio license back in the mid-90s: KF6FBP. https://mikesisk.com/blog/week-in-the-hospital/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/week-in-the-hospital/index.html Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT It seems as time goes on my visits to the hospital increase. I made it to 2020 without ever visiting the ER. And now I made it to 2025 without being admitted to the hospital for an overnight stay. https://mikesisk.com/blog/how-we-did-things-at-furfly/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/how-we-did-things-at-furfly/index.html Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT Back when we started Furfly during the web 1.0 days the world was a different place. We ran an all remote company with engineers all over the world and we did it without always connected internet, video feeds, or “Teams”. https://mikesisk.com/blog/dos5/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/dos5/index.html Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT My first job in technology was at Autodesk in AutoCAD Product Support at the old office in Sausalito on 2330 Marinship Way. We still shipped our software on floppies in a box with a hard-bound user’s manual. https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-3/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-3/index.html Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT I’ve written in the past about our challenges with rural broadband Part 1 and Part 2. https://mikesisk.com/blog/furfly0/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/furfly0/index.html Mon, 26 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT When I was starting furfly, one of the big questions is what hardware to use for our infrastructure. https://mikesisk.com/blog/kathy_sisk/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/kathy_sisk/index.html Thu, 29 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT My Mom’s Obituary https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-2/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-2/index.html Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT A late entrant into the rural home internet game: T-Mobile LTE Home Internet https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-1/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/rural-internet-1/index.html Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT One of the joys of living out in the rural hither lands is a lack of broadband internet. https://mikesisk.com/blog/finger-update/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/finger-update/index.html Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT Ok, now that it’s a bit in the past I can talk a little more about that finger injury. https://mikesisk.com/blog/night-at-the-er/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/night-at-the-er/index.html Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT I spent most of last night in the ER and we didn’t get home until 2 AM. https://mikesisk.com/blog/docker-on-pi/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/docker-on-pi/index.html Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT The Raspberry Pi is a fantastic low-cost way to experiment with Docker and Kubernetes (and Linux!). https://mikesisk.com/blog/myron_sisk/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/myron_sisk/index.html Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMT My Dad’s Obituary https://mikesisk.com/blog/some-vi-tips/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/some-vi-tips/index.html Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Awhile back on a previous job I got hit with a last-minute request to update our Nginx redirect map with data provided in a Google docs spreadsheet. Normally I only have to do one or two redirect rules at a time. But today I got hit with 120 rules – each of which needed data from two cells in the spreadsheet. Doing it manually would require 240 cut-n-paste operations – not fun and error prone. Oh, and I only had 30-minutes to get this done and up in production. https://mikesisk.com/blog/raxptr/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/raxptr/index.html Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT This is an archive originally posted on the Rackspace Developer Blog. https://mikesisk.com/blog/s3cmd/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/s3cmd/index.html Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Awhile back I was doing a lot of work involving Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (aka Amazon S3). https://mikesisk.com/blog/cron/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/cron/index.html Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes, even after decades of experience, you still screw up. https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin3/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin3/index.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT Well, I finally got an electrician out to my folks place. Then the job turned out to be too big for him since he had a bunch of others needing less work. So he brought yet another electrician over who could do the work. https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin2/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin2/index.html Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT I’m still in Joplin this week. https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin1/index.html https://mikesisk.com/blog/joplin1/index.html Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 GMT On May 22, 2011 an EF5 tornado struck my hometown of Joplin, Missouri. At the time I was working at a startup in Bend, OR but my folks (and a lot of friends) were – and are – still in Joplin.