Dev, Travel, Blogging

Over a decade of progressive professional software development experience in conjunction with more than two decades as a hobbyist developer has pushed me to reduce the burden of support and cost of delivery by writing highly-maintainable software of the highest caliber.

This blog is intended to be a personal collection of experiences/rants, journaling to tech related, things and other things that may be appropriate to share in a blog.

• Antipatterns

  Posted on January 17, 2025

  Patterns have often, more recently, gotten a misunderstood reputation. The Gang Of Four book was written in 1994, but if you talked to many developers today they’d look at you like you were clueless if you said observational pattern. The most popular form, in software engineering, is best practice/design patterns.... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Antipatterns
  • Software-engineering

• Unexpected Scala Functions: groupMap

  Posted on August 15, 2024

  There’s always something in the list comprehensions within Scala that just jumps out to suprise me. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • scala
  • hacks
  • list comprehensions

• What is EXIF Data in Photos? How can I view it? How can I automate the removal in my project?

  Posted on August 9, 2024

  Everytime you take a picture fo something, there is metadata data that is included in the file. Sometimes the data is fairly innocent and includes focal length, camera model, time of picture, etc. However somtimes, it can be used to identify the owner of the camera, the GPS location, and... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Precommit
  • Exif
  • Privacy
  • Open Source
  • exiftool

• Installing Arch on an Existing Arch Machine, The Easy way

  Posted on August 5, 2024

  When installing Arch Linux, the guide usually starts with creating some install medium (a USB drive). However, there isn’t a lot of explanation about what that installation medium does. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Linux
  • Arch
  • Installing

• Running local commands in your pre-commit hooks

  Posted on April 22, 2024

  This post is an extension of the prior post on precommits. If you are unfamiliar with the tool or haven’t set up pre-commit hooks on your project, go there first. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • pre-commit
  • cicd
  • unit-tests
  • early-feedback

• Git hooks and Pre-commit hooks.

  Posted on April 20, 2024

  The quickest way to get feedback from a build server for small checks is to use pre-commit hooks. Pre-commit hooks is a project that sits above the Git hooks directory in your project. What are git hooks, they’re scripts that run during the lifecycle of a Git action. Typically the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ruby
  • unittesting
  • precommit
  • cicd

• Ins and outs of the Japanese Rail Pass

  Posted on April 15, 2024

  Firstly, the Japanese trains are amazing. They’re a massive connection of interconnected short distance, medium distance, and long distance trains. Their speeds go from a normal subway speed, to 80 mph on the medium distance rail trains, all the way to about 180mph on the shinkansen trains. They’re fun, but... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • travel
  • jrpass
  • trains
  • howto

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