{"id":899,"date":"2026-05-21T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:06:21","slug":"now","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/now\/","title":{"rendered":"Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Last updated: 2026-05-21. Inspired by Derek Sivers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/nownownow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\/now<\/a> idea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I&#8217;m working on<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The homelab. Specifically, the small OpenStack Dalmatian cluster I run on Hetzner bare metal in Helsinki, with a nested compute node attached from my vSphere environment in New York. This site is one of the tenant workloads. Most of my recent writing is documentation from that build &#8212; what worked, what broke, and what I would do differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I&#8217;m looking for<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Paid work in tech. I&#8217;m keeping the scope deliberately broad &#8212; open to anything from hands-on infrastructure and networking through senior engineering and leadership roles. Remote-first is the strong preference; hybrid in the New York area is a close second; on-site in NY also fine. If anything here looks like the kind of work you&#8217;re hiring for, the <a href=\"\/index.php\/about\/\">About<\/a> page has contact details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I&#8217;m writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiming for about one technical post per month while job-searching. Currently drafting a long-form write-up about migrating this blog onto the OpenStack cluster from its previous Bionic-era VM home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated: 2026-05-21. Inspired by Derek Sivers&#8217; \/now idea. What I&#8217;m working on The homelab. Specifically, the small OpenStack Dalmatian cluster I run on Hetzner bare metal in Helsinki, with a nested compute node attached from my vSphere environment in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-899","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":329,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/about\/","url_meta":{"origin":899,"position":0},"title":"About","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"September 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P70MUT-ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/899\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}