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Grounding Oneself
The blog has been quiet lately because I’ve been mired in a well over a month long major work effort at my job. As a software developer responsible for a platform used by thousands, I’ve had a lot of work … Continue reading
Old Places and Liminal Spaces
Last week, the day before I flew out to Denver for a long time good friend’s wedding, I made a brief detour in my hometown and adjacent town. I visited the adjacent town because other long time friends have made … Continue reading
Migration Complete
In my tear to move everything to docker on a fresh server, the blog is the next thing to make its way over. Now that I feel like I am getting a genuine grip of how this all works I … Continue reading
Learning Docker, Part 1
Time to make the next step in my career, and growing past just working in legacy .NET Framework apps. I am finally learning how to use Docker and containers effectively. It’s taken awhile to wrap my head around what containers … Continue reading
Long Nights
My beautiful son was born too weeks ago! I am totally in love with him and my wife and I are re-learning our lives around his existence. This means a lot of sleepless nights and not a lot of free … Continue reading
Cloud Storage Woes
Everyone loves Google Drive, Microsoft’s OneDrive, Dropbox and the million other services that exist out there. They offer create and (mostly) cost effective ways to backup or sync files across many devices. However, even in the year 2022 I still … Continue reading
I Stand with Ukraine
I’ve got a couple more writings coming down the pipeline but I want to take this opportunity to announce that I stand with the people and the nation of Ukraine. We in the west should band together to support a … Continue reading
My Hero Academia and Humanism
This season has had me busy at work but grinding a lot of anime over my lunch hour. Specifically, I decided to rewatch My Hero Academia in order to get current. As of writing, I am a few episodes shy … Continue reading
Facebook Outage and the Day the World Stopped
Mondays are hard, they’re especially hard if your a Facebook engineer frantically, desperately trying to get your network connectivity back. Little did they know, or maybe they did know: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus are down globally. Now I spent … Continue reading
Digimon Metaphysics
In case anyone thought I was normal, allow me to disabuse you of that notion today. Recently I’ve been watching all of the Digimon series in chronological order, mostly as a time killer while I continue to work from home. … Continue reading