Journal
A place for my thoughts and all of the things I tinker with...
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My first Beelink machine arrives
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Homelab parts finally ordered in 2025
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Christmas came early: my new home server
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Replaced Tinkerlog's Rails backend with Astro
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So my resume is now a website. That's a thing I guess.
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Playing with CSS and looking at network fundamentals
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Working my way through Ansible and terrified that I'll need to learn Vault
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Beginning to play with shell scripting
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Burning out on Terraform
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Setting up back-ups with an Ansible container in Jenkins
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Python, venv and Docker are not friends
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The top of the mountain
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Jenkins build emails, Dockerizing Tinkerlog, and Terraform
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Docker-in-Docker to the rescue: my Jenkins server is fully-functional
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Final hurdles with setting up my Jenkins server (hopefully)
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Offloading my brain to the Internet
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Verifying GPG signatures: history, terms and a how-to guide
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Mastering Ubuntu Server: notes from day 1
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Alpine and Python, EXPOSE-ing ports and unprivileged users in containers
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Blast off: my first Dockerized app is in production
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Trials and tribulations of sharing Django's static files with an nginx container
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Debugging on the server: finally getting my Dockerized app to load in a browser
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My first pipeline is finally deploying to DigitalOcean
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The final yard: The final yard: Docker, firewalls and SSH keys
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First CI Pipeline: Complete
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Pipelines, Docker Hub, and Docker Compose in production
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It's been a month
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Fucked again: I threw out my back
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The Great Unfucking begins
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Music and agility
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Struggling to integrate Docker and Jenkins
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I got my first pipeline to build in Jenkins
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What is going on with the Jenkins UI?
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Docker, Docker-in-Docker and disappointment
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I'm tired of sucking at deployment
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Downloading a webpage and all of its assets with wget
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Diving into the source
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2021: The year I master continuous delivery
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I think I'm starting to understand why people like Go
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Taco La Villa
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How long has it been since I've been to Los Angeles?
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Bridging the glowing rectangle and reality
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I'm an applications programmer
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Eating takeout again post-pandemic
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Considering projects for 2021
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Configuring nginx to handle www redirects on Tinker Log
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My 2021 reading list
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XML in Rails and funny ternary operators in Ruby
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Trying to understand when I'd use Golang
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Self-hosting analytics with Plausible & NGINX on Ubuntu Server
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This blog is live at last!
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Days since I bricked a server: 0
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This site is on a server!
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Instant reloading added to this site in development mode
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This site is ready to launch
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Finally loading content into the site's repo
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Tax Day 2021
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Over the finish line: Deploying Rails
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A complete guide to deploying Rails on an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM
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More Rails deployment heaches
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Reviewing SOLID and MVC
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Python and the value of learning through paid work
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SSH and making my computer speak
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Day two of installing Ruby on the server
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Rails: Me vs the docs
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Too many options, too much to know
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Giving Rails a shot