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tim fitzgerald


IT Systems Admin/Engineer and Manager currently telling computers what to do at Clio in Vancouver, B.C.


  1. Bikepacking Mt. Hood - Timothy Lake

    While on our way to Bend, OR for an LCD Soundsystem gig (yes, it was amazing) - we decided to fit in an overnighter in the Mt. Hood area. We settled on the Frog Lake Loop but for reasons we will get to had to modify it a small bit. …


  2. Terraform for Okta - 2 years on.

    I always intended to write up a Part 2 of my Getting Started With Terraform for Okta post. This part is less of a guide like Part 1, and instead this Part 2 is more of a “What have I learned” affair. …


  3. Bikepacking the Olympic Adventure Route

    With a few days randomly booked off work we decided to find a bikepacking trip to go on, and after some consideration we settled on the Olympic Adventure Route loop described by Miles Arbour for Bikepacking.com. We left Vancouver on a Wednesday evening after work and caught a ferry to Swartz Bay then the bus to downtown Victoria. We stayed the night in Victoria so we could catch the Black Ball ferry in the morning. …


  4. Import Google Calendar agenda to your Obsidian daily note

    I came across this blog post by Ben Newton recently where they explained how they were able to add their Outlook calendar agenda to their daily note in Obsidian. At my current company we use Google Calendar so I wanted to see if something similar could be achieved with that, and discovered that this is indeed possible. …


  5. Getting started with Terraform for Okta - Part 1

    N.B. The follow up to this guide is now published and has some important changes from this guide. If you are following up you should read both in their entirety first. …


  6. Empowering Okta Helpdesk Admins to Activate Users

    Introduction - The Problem …


  7. A Hybrid Approach to Munki - Part 2

    Introduction …


  8. A Hybrid Approach to Munki

    Introduction …