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Cake day: November 14th, 2025

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  • It sounds like you’re trying to learn but have an “all or nothing” mentality to going about it. Nothing is mastered all of a sudden and expecting mastery out the gate is a recipe for burn out. If you’re goal is absolute perfection then you’ll never even start.

    Go through the online docs and training resources first to gain an understanding of how to assemble playbooks without a direct implementation target attached.

    Once you have a sense of what Ansible is and what it can do for you, pick something small to do for yourself. For example, create a playbook that sets up nginx for a single purpose.  When there are a 100 different ways to do something, you’ll never do it right. You’ll do it acceptably, then you’ll do it again better and then you’ll do it again more flexibly, etc.  If you know or pick up Python then you’ll start being able to dive into custom modules and plugins.

    A toolkit is something you build over time. You build it over time because it’s impossible to know what you’ll need before you start. If you do end up pulling together a toolkit that you think it appropriate and complete before you start working then you’ll have a mess of configurations that are not applicable and mostly inappropriate that you’ll end up debugging forever.

    Start small. Start where you are.



  • This is interesting.  It looks like a gift card program.  They allow you to create a card and fund it using crypto up to $1,000 USD.  Once a funded card account is depleted it cannot be reloaded (this is how they skirt KYC).  Their accounts cannot be used for cash withdrawal (covers AML).  They do have a mechanism for moving funds between card accounts though.  The FAQ was able to answer all the questions I thought of regarding the program.

    Seems worth a measured explore.  I used to work in a job that encouraged playing around with payment and money transfer networks a bit though.