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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.

GitHub Actions: The Hidden Billing Trap

Avoid unexpected costs with a simple settings adjustment.

Posted on February 2, 2026

You might be unknowingly paying for GitHub Actions even after your workflows have finished. Let’s set the stage for being me: you’ve forked a project, enabled the GitHub actions, stayed under your limit, and contributed a great change to an open source project. You’re all good right? Karma’s good, it’s... [Read More]
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- github-actions
- billing
- costs
- troubleshooting
- open-source
- devops
- automation
- github
- retention
- storage
- workflow
- ci-cd
- free-tier
- hidden-costs
- technical-debt
gRPC: Up And Running (2020)

A Book Review

Posted on January 26, 2026

In a previous post, I shared a correction for an early chapter of gRPC: Up and Running. It helped others who were struggling with the initial gRPC server and client setup. [Read More]
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Is This the Future of Software Development? (2026 Predictions)

Navigating the evolving landscape of coding, architecture, and tooling in the next year

Posted on January 20, 2026

It’s the year of flying cars, robots, and all-digital lives. At least one of those things was a big focus at CES ( robotics). In the spirit of looking back in 2025, I thought I’d share a collection of things that might be considered, explored, or should be abandoned in... [Read More]
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Getting Started with gRPC: A Practical Example in Go

An Errata for the book 'gRPC Up and Running'

Posted on January 12, 2026

I’ve recently been diving deeper into gRPC, having used it peripherally in another project. Wanting a solid foundation, I explored several resources, ultimately choosing “gRPC Up and Running” (2020) by Danesh Kuruppu. I initially tried “gRPC Microservices in Go (2023),” but found it leaned heavily into microservice architecture principles before... [Read More]
Best of 2025: Part 3

Travel and Cultural

Posted on January 6, 2026

The theme of this part is Cultural and Travel Experiences. These are some of the non-work/technical related things that I found/did/stood out last year. [Read More]
Tags:
- travel
- year-in-review
- best-of-2025
- taiwan
- bali
- latvia
- solo-travel
- amtrak
- empire-builder
- glacier-national-park
- kayaking
- live-music
- concerts
- comedy
- food
- beef-noodles
- ubud
- taipei
- reflection
- lifestyle
Best of 2025: Part 2

Self Care and Non-Technical

Posted on January 5, 2026

The theme of this part is Self Care and Non-Technical things. These are some of the non-work/technical related things that I found/did/stood out last year. [Read More]
Tags:
- self-care
- personal-growth
- wellness
- mental-health
- mindfulness
- meditation
- tea
- exercise
- fitness
- injury-recovery
- sports-leagues
- whirlyball
- walking
- hiking
- trails
- reading
- audiobooks
- digital-minimalism
- slow-living
- life-optimization
Best Of 2025

Part 1 of 3: Technical and Things I bought

Posted on January 2, 2026

I haven’t done a “best of” list on my blog, but I’ve seen a lot of interesting posts from other bloggers. This is my review of 2025 and what I personally enjoyed or things that stuck out to me. This will be a highly focused, but not a comprehensive, list.... [Read More]
Tags:
- best-of-2025
- year-in-review
- personal-tech
- developer-life
- self-hosting
- homelab
- home-automation
- zigbee
- opnsense
- networking
- privacy
- open-source
- gRPC
- ci-cd
- gitlab
- llms
- artificial-intelligence
- productivity
- earbuds
- smart-home

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