Like most people who love to tinker, I have several self-hosted services I run. And I had those services sprinkled across several different devices. I had a Raspberry Pi 2B, a custom built gaming desktop, and a VPS hosted on Linode.
The Raspberry Pi was my Syncthing always on device …
Begin by imagining a hypothetical universe. In this hypothetical universe every fact about a person is recorded in some database somewhere everyone has access to. Actions people have done, character traits they have, everything. Pretend everyone has the ability to ask some really cool AI thinger any question about a …
The other day I was having a tough day. Lots to do, lots of things not going quite right, kids being less than awesome, etc.
At the end of the day Jessica and I had finally put the kids to bed and finally started making dinner for ourselves. Halfway through …
The past two months at work have been crazy. Here's my story.
Our integration/branching strategy is to have engineers branch straight off of master for each work item they want to complete. When the engineer is ready to integrate their work they open a pull request from their branch …
I've recently been involved in several conversations that begin with the question, "Is E-Sports an actual sport?" I haven't decided the answer for myself, but I've come up with a list of activities that helps folks find the answer for themselves. People seem to think it's an easy question to …
In my day job I attend this thing called Architecture Guild. It's a group of like-minded people who want to make the architecture of our software better. We meet for 1.5 hours fortnightly. I have been attending this guild for almost four years, which is when I started working …
30 days ago I started doing daily meditation. I've meditated every day since I started. And boy is it awesome! Headspace has been my guide of choice. There's a former monk doing the guides and his voice is super soothing and peaceful. He's also really great at guiding me through …
Jessica and I found out yesterday that we're having a baby boy! I was about 60% wanting a boy and 40% wanting a girl. Only because we already have a girl. With Wendy, I honestly was happy either way. I think it's funny that June 11 is the due date …
At my day job we've been spending lots of time recently trying to get our build into a Jenkinsfile. That's a way to, in code, declare your deployment pipeline. The language of choice is Groovy. And man is it a fun language! I knew I liked it before, but after …
I'm trying to get the word out to everyone. We recently decided to get solar power on our roof. We went with SolarCity (Tesla's solar provider) and did a partial system. It's about 3 KW. It will offset 45% of our usage. Total cost was about $10000. Cost after tax …