Tinker log

A place for my thoughts and all of the things I tinker with...

• So my resume is now a website. That's a thing I guess.

  September 03, 2021

• Playing with CSS and looking at network fundamentals

  September 01, 2021

• Working my way through Ansible and terrified that I'll need to learn Vault

  August 31, 2021

• Beginning to play with shell scripting

  August 30, 2021

• Burning out on Terraform

  August 29, 2021

• Setting up back-ups with an Ansible container in Jenkins

  August 23, 2021

• Python, venv and Docker are not friends

  August 21, 2021

• The top of the mountain

  August 18, 2021

• Jenkins build emails, Dockerizing Tinkerlog, and Terraform

  August 17, 2021

• Docker-in-Docker to the rescue: my Jenkins server is fully-functional

  August 16, 2021

• Final hurdles with setting up my Jenkins server (hopefully)

  August 15, 2021

• Offloading my brain to the Internet

  August 14, 2021

• Verifying GPG signatures: history, terms and a how-to guide

  August 13, 2021

• Mastering Ubuntu Server: notes from day 1

  August 12, 2021

• Alpine and Python, EXPOSE-ing ports and unprivileged users in containers

  August 11, 2021

• Blast off: my first Dockerized app is in production

  August 10, 2021

• Trials and tribulations of sharing Django's static files with an nginx container

  August 09, 2021

• Debugging on the server: finally getting my Dockerized app to load in a browser

  August 08, 2021

• My first pipeline is finally deploying to DigitalOcean

  August 07, 2021

• The final yard: The final yard: Docker, firewalls and SSH keys

  August 06, 2021

• First CI Pipeline: Complete

  August 05, 2021

• Pipelines, Docker Hub, and Docker Compose in production

  August 04, 2021

• It's been a month

  August 02, 2021

• Fucked again: I threw out my back

  July 29, 2021

• The Great Unfucking begins

  July 28, 2021

• Music and agility

  July 26, 2021

• Struggling to integrate Docker and Jenkins

  July 25, 2021

• I got my first pipeline to build in Jenkins

  July 23, 2021

• What is going on with the Jenkins UI?

  July 22, 2021

• Docker, Docker-in-Docker and disappointment

  July 21, 2021

• I'm tired of sucking at deployment

  July 20, 2021

• Downloading a webpage and all of its assets with wget

  July 19, 2021

• Diving into the source

  June 24, 2021

• 2021: The year I master continuous delivery

  June 23, 2021

• I think I'm starting to understand why people like Go

  June 20, 2021

• Taco La Villa

  June 19, 2021

• How long has it been since I've been to Los Angeles?

  June 15, 2021

• Bridging the glowing rectangle and reality

  June 14, 2021

• I'm an applications programmer

  June 13, 2021

• Eating takeout again post-pandemic

  June 01, 2021

• Considering projects for 2021

  May 31, 2021

• Configuring nginx to handle www redirects on Tinker Log

  May 29, 2021

• My 2021 reading list

  May 27, 2021

• XML in Rails and funny ternary operators in Ruby

  May 26, 2021

• Trying to understand when I'd use Golang

  May 24, 2021

• Self-hosting analytics with Plausible & NGINX on Ubuntu Server

  May 23, 2021

• This blog is live at last!

  May 22, 2021

• Days since I bricked a server: 0

  May 21, 2021

• This site is on a server!

  May 20, 2021

• Instant reloading added to this site in development mode

  May 19, 2021

• This site is ready to launch

  May 19, 2021

• Finally loading content into the site's repo

  May 18, 2021

• Tax Day 2021

  May 17, 2021

• A complete guide to deploying Rails on an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM

  May 16, 2021

• Over the finish line: Deploying Rails

  May 16, 2021

• More Rails deployment heaches

  May 15, 2021

• Reviewing SOLID and MVC

  May 14, 2021

• Python and the value of learning through paid work

  May 13, 2021

• SSH and making my computer speak

  May 12, 2021

• Rails: Me vs the docs

  May 11, 2021

• Day two of installing Ruby on the server

  May 11, 2021

• Too many options, too much to know

  May 10, 2021

• Giving Rails a shot

  May 09, 2021