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January 2023 recap - 2023-01-31 | 3 min read | tags: #summary
Quick summary for January 2023
Goals for 2023 - 2022-12-30 | 2 min read |
Some of my plans for 2023
How to Build a Custom Integration Test Harness in Rust - 2021-04-26 | 9 min read | tags: #rust #testing #integration
Building a custom test harness in Rust is less complicated following these patterns
9 Insights I Uncovered While Building a Writing Habit - 2021-01-28 | 10 min read | tags: #writing
A reflection on writing a lot more in 2020
Questions to Find the Right Continuous Integration System for You - 2020-12-10 | 7 min read | tags: #devops #ci #leadership
Questions to ask if you're considering switching CI systems
Re: Reading More Technical Content Can Help You Improve Your Content Creation Skills - 2020-12-03 | 6 min read | tags: #devrel #motivation #leadership
Answering the questions asked in Stephanie Morillo's post about how to improve your content creation skills
Quick Primer to Practical Reproducible builds: Reference Environments - 2020-11-27 | 7 min read | tags: #devops #automation #scripting #config-management #virtual-machine #containers
Make contributing easy. The system requirements to build your code is just as important as the code itself.
Rust in 2021 - 2020-11-17 | 7 min read | tags: #rust
My response for this year's call for blog posts for the 2021 roadmap
Is DevOps Automation a zero-sum game? - 2020-11-10 | 2 min read | tags: #devops
Discussion about whether DevOps culture requires winners and losers
DevOps Helps you be a Better Leader - 2020-11-06 | 9 min read | tags: #devops #leadership #management
This is the first of a series about helping your organization embrace DevOps
Bottle rockets in my DevOps? It’s more likely than you think. - 2020-10-29 | 7 min read | tags: #devops #devrel #dx
Why DevOps thinking is not new. A story that demonstrates the benefits from outside the software industry
My Hacktoberfest 2020 is Complete - 2020-10-19 | 4 min read | tags: #hacktoberfest #opensource #github #rust
I finished Hacktoberfest 2020. How did I do? What did I get?
What can I do to feel like I belong in the Tech community? - 2020-10-13 | 4 min read | tags: #beginners #culture #motivation #networking #rust
A reflection and invitation to discuss my current lack of feeling of belonging in the tech community
A first-timer's perspective to Digital Ocean's Hacktoberfest 2020 - 2020-10-05 | 7 min read | tags: #hacktoberfest #opensource #github #rust
My experience and opinion on my first Hacktoberfest in 2020
9 steps to rename your default Github branch safely - 2020-09-30 | 10 min read | tags: #git #github #github-actions #migration #checklist
Checklist to migrate your git repository’s primary branch from master to main
Reflections after 2 months of live coding - 2020-09-22 | 9 min read | tags: #streaming #twitch #livecoding #rust
Sharing thoughts, experiences, and goals about live-coding Rust on Twitch
Let’s build a single binary gRPC server-client with Rust in 2020 - 2020-08-19 | 29 min read | tags: #rust #grpc #cli #structopt #tonic #protobuf
A detailed quick-start example for experienced devs using gRPC with Rust
What I learned running a live programming Twitch stream from Linux - 2020-07-29 | 9 min read | tags: #twitch #streaming #obs #linux
Streaming a coding session on Twitch using a Linux laptop was easier than expected.
How to prevent Github Actions from deploying on PR with CI/CD - 2020-06-12 | 5 min read | tags: #github #github-actions #ci #cd
Walkthrough of an example Github Actions workflow that allows different steps for Push vs Pull Requests
How to link multiple docker-compose services via network - 2020-06-11 | 4 min read | tags: #docker #networking
Walkthrough of how to link networks of docker-compose services defined in multiple files
Published First Crate on Crates.io - 2020-02-14 | 2 min read | tags: #rust #crates.io
My experience publishing my first public Rust library
Using a database + gRPC with Rust - 2019-04-25 | 17 min read | tags: #rust #database #diesel-rs #grpc #grpc-rs #tower-rs #cli #clap-rs
A demonstration of a Rust CLI application using GRPC and PostgreSQL
Deploy Postfix Gmail relay with Ansible on Raspberry Pi - 2018-11-27 | 4 min read | tags: #ansible #postfix #raspberry pi #vmware
A walkthrough for configuring a Raspberry Pi Postfix relay from VCenter Server Appliance to gmail
Building a Unix-shell in Rust - Part 4 - 2018-01-21 | 4 min read | tags: #rust
Exploring implementation of shell builtins
Building a Unix-shell in Rust - Part 3 - 2017-12-31 | 5 min read | tags: #rust
Exploring Rust's test suite
Building a Unix-shell in Rust - Part 2 - 2017-11-26 | 8 min read | tags: #rust
Beginning to interactive shell with Rust
Building a Unix-shell in Rust - Part 1 - 2017-11-05 | 6 min read | tags: #rust
Description of concepts of a Unix shell
Learning New Build Systems - 2017-04-01 | 2 min read | tags: #maven #gulpjs #ci
Devops build experience with unfamiliar languages
Status Update - 2016-06-25 | 2 min read |
Professional life update
Taking Notes - 2015-07-16 | 4 min read | tags: #notes
Why I prefer taking handwritten notes
Goodbye Wordpress - 2015-07-05 | 1 min read | tags: #wordpress #jekyll
Announcement of migration away from hosted Wordpress to Github Pages and Jekyll
Pip and bottle.py on NearlyFreeSpeech - 2013-12-06 | 3 min read | tags: #freebsd #python #bottle.py #nearlyfreespeech #web-development
How to run Python web app on NearlyFreeSpeech
Learning Android to Play with Metawatch Manager - 2012-05-14 | 2 min read | tags: #android #github #metawatch
First Android app dev experience with Metawatch app
MetaWatch - Unboxing - 2011-09-16 | 1 min read | tags: #metawatch #unboxing
Metawatch brief unboxing - links and pictures removed
Laptop Volume Buttons in AwesomeWM - 2011-09-15 | 2 min read | tags: #awesomewm #laptop #rc.conf #volume-control
Configuring hardware laptop buttons to control speaker volume
Metawatch Has Arrived - 2011-09-12 | 1 min read | tags: #metawatch
First experience with Metawatch smartwatch
Tarball xz - 2011-08-31 | 1 min read | tags: #bsd #linux #portable #xz
One-liner for using xz compression with tar in FreeBSD
Ubuntu Breakup - 2011-07-06 | 3 min read | tags: #arch #ubuntu #tiling-wm #awesomewm #linux #lua
First experience with Arch Linux
Gnome Xmonad Lucid - 2011-05-27 | 1 min read | tags: #ubuntu #tiling-wm #xmonad
First experience with tiling window manager Xmonad
Senior Project Update - 2011-05-27 | 1 min read | tags: #arm #freescale #github #home-automation #kinetis #microcontroller #opensource
Senior project home automation code for Freescale Kinetis microcontroller
Cygwin Screen Reattach Workaround - 2011-04-04 | 1 min read | tags: #cygwin #gnu-screen
Workaround for reattaching Tmux session in Win7
Zsh at Win 7 Start up - 2011-03-28 | 2 min read | tags: #cygwin #scripting #windows
Virtualbox Headless-mode on Windows 7 - 2011-03-21 | 2 min read | tags: #freebsd #virtualbox #zfs
Configuring Virtualbox to run a headless FreeBSD VM in Win7 at startup
Improving Cywgin in Windows with rxvt - 2011-03-18 | 2 min read | tags: #cygwin #putty #rxvt