Author: Jeremy Eder

Going Full Send on my WFH A/V setup

I tried hard to make it work. But I could never get the results I wanted. The crisp video, clean audio, the BOKEH. Herein lies my adventures (full send, some might say) over the past ~2 months in getting a proper home office A/V setup. It’s not perfect yet, but I’m fairly happy with the improvement. I’ll close this write-up with some of my next steps / gaps.

Starting with some basic tenets:

  • Whatever I end up with has to augment all of my ingrained behaviors; I’m not going to relearn how to use a computer (change operating system) for the sake of this.
  • I’m stuck with the room I’ve got. The walls have odd angles which makes lighting difficult.
  • I don’t know anything about this, so there will be lots of trial, error, and Googling.
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Tweaking my webcam setup (Logitech C930e, Fedora Linux, v4l)

I came really close to making some large purchases to improve my video call situation, and I may still do so, but I did spend some time and found a few quick wins maybe will help others:

  1. I use Fedora as my workstation.  Won’t change it.
  2. I have a Logitech C930e.  Logitech doesn’t publish anything on how to tweak the camera on Linux.  Figure out how to tweak it.
  3. I like (love) working in the dark.  So I never have any lights on.  That has to change.
  4. I have a window behind me in my home office.  Shutting the blinds is not enough.  Repositioning my desk won’t work in the space I’ve got.  Get a blackout curtain.
  5. My webcam is sitting on top of my monitor, dead center.  This makes it really awkward to look directly at.  It’s about 8″ above my eye-line.  I don’t think I’m going to change this. My eyeline has to remain at the center of the monitor or I get neck pain.

Here are the tweaks I made that do seem to have improved things:

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Choose Your Own Adventure: SRE Life at Red Hat

Red Hat does managed services. We do DevOps in the style of the Google SRE Book. We’re a decent sized and growing org that supports customers 24/7.  Our team is at the forefront of operationalizing OpenShift 4’s revolutionary set of capabilities, and are a way-to-market for many of Red Hat’s newest portfolio offerings.

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