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Latest Episodes

Best of the Hedge: Episode 1
July 03, 2025

Are you stressed? Everyone in IT seems to be continuously stressed--but what can we do about it? Sonia Cuff joins the Hedge to talk about stress. - From time to time we like to repost episodes of sign

Hedge 272: Are we addicted to the CLI?
June 26, 2025

Is the CLI the best way to configure, manage, and troubleshoot routers and other networking gear? Or should we move past the CLI towards automation and (possibly even) GUI-based tools? Mark Posser j

Hedge 271: AI and Creativity
June 13, 2025

AI chatbots and image creators are all the rage right now--we are using them for everything from coding to writing books to creating short movies. One question we do not ask often enough, though, is h

Hedge 270: Password Psychology
June 06, 2025

Password hygiene drive IT professionals crazy--people forget their passwords, will not change them often enough, and choose weak ones. But are IT folks immune to these problems? What is the psychology

Hedge 269: Web 3.0
May 29, 2025

Yes, we took an (unintentional) three-week break for medical reasons ... but we're back with a new episode. - What is Web 3.0, and how is it different from Web 2.0? What about XR, AI, and Quantum, an

Hedge 268: Will AI take our jobs?
May 01, 2025

nbsp; One of the "great fears" advancing AI unlocks is that most of our jobs can, and will, be replaced by various forms of AI. Join us on this episode of the Hedge as Jonathan Mast at White Beard Str

Hedge 267: Can modularization solve people problems?
April 25, 2025

Solving technology problems often involves breaking a problem into multiple smaller problems, build interaction surfaces between the pieces, and glue the pieces back into a larger system. We also know

Hedge 266: SR/MPLS
April 11, 2025

When most people think of segment routing (SR), they think of SRv6--using IPv6 addresses as segment IDs, and breaking the least significant /64 to create microsids for service differentiation. This is

Hedge 264: Documentation and Tech Debt
March 28, 2025

On this episode of the Hedge, Eyvonne, Tom, and Russ talk about topics near and dear to every network engineer's heart--documentation, legacy, and tech debt. What should our philosophy of documentatio

Hedge 263: NFTs
March 21, 2025

How do Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, impact value and the future of all things digital? How are they different from--and similar to--blockchain? Jaime Schwarz joins Russ White and Tom Ammon to talk