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.

• 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

• Using Pipewire and Low volume in Kodi drove me through a dark rabbit hole

  Posted on April 12, 2024

  I bought a new drive for my home media box. In doing so a lot of things improved. First, I went with docker images rather than custom bare metal installs for the services that I maintain on it. I did some better organization on the system, better mounts, etc. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • linux
  • systembuilding
  • dbus
  • pulseaudio
  • pipewire
  • kodi
  • troubleshooting
  • systemd

• 'The good days' of software engineering in 2020-2

  Posted on February 24, 2024

  Prior to the global pandemic lockdown and the time where we all collectively lost our minds, businesses were adamant about informing develoers about how little they trusted them and tha remote work was often a priviledge of the C suites’ royal blessing. Being in a domestically distributed company I was... [Read More]

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