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2025

Getting the GitOps Experience with Docker
Recognizing the "between state" of Docker and Kubernetes lead to me becoming a Lizard 🦎
5 Reasons to ♡ nushell
Whether it's a scripting language or a programming language, nushell offers a ton of quality of life features.

2024

The Missing kcat Event Hub OAuth Configuration
A helpful tool to make Kafka more approachable.
Scanning Containers Rootlessly
And learning more about Podman's architecture in the process.

2023

5 Things I Learned my First Year as a Sr Developer
Lessons learned in my first year as a Senior Developer.

2022

The PC Revolution
A living document defining what I call the Personal Cloud revolution.

2021

Taking control of my digital life with Docker.
How I started to self host my cloud services and reduce my dependence on Google and others.
Remove Bluetooth tether connections from Gnome
It sticks around even when your bluetooth connection doesnt.
Plexamp, the only Google Play Music replacement
Everything you loved about GPM, improved, and self-hosted.
Why I use a dongle despite having a headphone jack.
On a phone, it really doesn't matter all that much.

2019

What I learned in Boating School: Deep Dive into Javascript
Javascript is confusing, ES6 makes it much easier. Come read about some of my favorite features from ES6.
What I Learned in Boating School: Make Recent Listens Widget with ES6
Lets apply these new ES6 concepts and generate a Recent Listens Widget
Some Notes on Flow Control
An old friend asked for help with his Python program, which turned into a great lesson on flow control.
Getting Your Code to Run in Awkward Places
University Linux systems are a little restricted for my taste, however its easy to workaround in a non malicious manner.

2018

What I learned in Boating School: Fall 18 School Recap
Programming language concepts, how compilers are built, operator overloading.
What I Learned in Boating School: Fall 2018 part 2
Computer architecture (Intel), program optimization, assembly, and how to stack is allocated.
Server Defense 1: fail2ban
Keep a host up long enough and get spammed root login attempts.
What to do when Plasma cant load providors.xml
This can fail sometimes and hinder your KDE ricing.
Otherlife, and the importance of OpenSource Software
Otherlife subtly summarizes deep rooted issues with how willingly people give their information to Propriatary Software Vendors.
Porting an Android Rom: Prologue
The Essential Phone is close to a perfect device, however, I would like to run MaruOS's Dex-like Linux environment to really experience.
Fedora 27: Restore Plymouth on XPS 13
I was bothered that plymouth wasn't working on my XPS 9350. I finally found a solution.
5$ Cloud Part 2: Upgrading Nextcloud Docker
Upgrading is easy! Ensure you're prepared for potential complications.
Stopping Stuck Windows Services
Save yourself a lot of time intervening.
5$ Personal Cloud: How to, using Nextcloud, and Docker-Compose
The last decade put clouds in our skies, now it's time to take the cloud for ourselves.

2017

Using ADB from Windows Subsystem for Linux
I'm sure this will help any mobile developers on Windows 10 using React.
Inner Join Basics Access/SQL
A brief rundown of an Inner Join in SQL and MS Access.
Sideloading Android Updates
Apply updates as they're released. Stop waiting for staged rollouts
Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality
What is it, and why you want to save it
Reverse Iteration Example
We were asked to write a function that detects palindromes and ignores white space. I took this as a good time to demonstrate reverse iteration.
How to Disable Developer Options Android
Because sometimes we don't want to be a developer

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