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.

• 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]

• I made a low carb peanut butter pie

  Posted on February 9, 2024

  After seeing this recipe from KetoFocus and watching the video (down below), I found it rather interesting to try this. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • keto
  • recipes
  • baking
  • cooking

• 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

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