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.

• Building a table

  Posted on February 8, 2024

  For the last month and a half I’ve been building a table from scratch. Why? I needed a custom size, I needed a table that would be at the right height to use a multicooker on, and I needed one that could hide and allow me to perform maintenance on... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • woodworking
  • maker
  • leathercraft
  • projectmanagement

• New blog, Switching to Jekyll

  Posted on February 4, 2024

  If you’re one of the 0.001 people that read this blog very religiously. (Given that it’s been mostly dead for the last few years, probably that number approaches 0) You’ll notice that the blog may look different. Well a lot has changed underneath the covers. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • blogging
  • Jekyll
  • Hugo
  • Wordpress

• NVidia 545 upgrade issues with Arch

  Posted on February 4, 2024

  When running Arch, it’s just apart of life that an update that you do will break your system. With the Linux 6.7 drivers and the Nvidia 545 drivers, it seems to have quite a lot of issues. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • linux
  • arch
  • nvidia
  • drivers

• Docker Life Protip

  Posted on September 21, 2021

  If you don’t set a version in your docker-compose yaml file. It defaults to the docker-compose format for version 1.0. This is completely despite what version you have docker-compose installed. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • docker
  • docker-compose
  • networking

• New G8 Template: Kafka Streams

  Posted on April 22, 2020

  TL;DR: Kafka Streams Scala Application: sbt new monksy/kafka-streams.g8 [Read More]

  Tags:

  • g8
  • github
  • kafak
  • opensource
  • scala
  • tempatle

• Take a look at that nice tasty (pork) butt

  Posted on April 15, 2020

  This is what it looks like on hour 8. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bbq
  • food
  • grilling
  • smoking

• TIL: Checking if an environment variable is set and exists

  Posted on April 14, 2020

  I’ve seen a lot of documentation for checking if a variable is set by calling [[ !-z "$VARNAME" ]]. That condictional statement essentially checks to see if the resolved string "$VARNAME" is not an empty string. Not very straight forward is it? [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • bash-scripting
  • docker
  • linux

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