General

PI Hole, when you’re tired of being the product; block the requests.

Community, General, Random Thoughts
2018-08-15

The web in 2018 is a mess. Sites wanting to send you desktop alerts, know your location, advert after advert, live chat on every site, GDPR inspired cookie notifications, ad block… Read More »

Sam Kyle’s “No Matter What You Work For Yourself “

Community, General, Random Thoughts
2018-08-102018-08-10

I wish I was a good of a writer as Sam Kyle. Short, to the point, opinionated, driven. The link goes to his there most recent article. The article puts… Read More »

Ethernet, 30 years old and still rockin’.

General
2018-07-10

Can you name a peice of computer hardware with a 30 year history in computing? I can: Ethernet. ILJITSCH VAN BEIJNUM over at Ars Technica published a detailed article on… Read More »

Added Disqus commenting ability.

Community, General
2018-07-08

After the success of the Gatling article, and the understandable dislike of the default comment system, I decided to give Disqus a try. Please leave a comment / opinion below… Read More »

Great article on Pull Requests

Community, General, Git, Programming
2018-07-03

`Anatomy of a perfect pull request` over at opensource.com is a great article that touches on what it is that makes a PR a good PR, or a pile of… Read More »

What I learned from the 2018 JetBrains Developer ecosystem survey…

Community, General
2018-06-072018-06-07

JetBrains, like many other organizations, doe a yearly survey for anyone willing to take a couple minutes and submit some answers. As such all answers are based on the… Read More »

Sharing some resources.

Community, General
2018-05-23

Awesome List is a curated list of resource you may find awesome; I know I have found is very helpful for a number of topics.

SRE, DevOps, WTF, OMGBBQ.

Community, DevOps, General
2018-05-222018-05-23

Google put together an article and a nice set of videos explaining DevOps and SREs. It’s a bit…cheeky but to the point and not techno-babble complicated. Check out the article… Read More »

`git stash` magic

General, Git
2018-05-03

Srebalaji Thirumalai over on dev.to has a nice write up covering git stash and the many amazing things it can do. Check it out.

The cost of scaling up.

Community, General, Random Thoughts
2018-04-30

In my time s working in the software realm I have worked on projects of various sizes. Local bands wanting a web presence, user generated content upload sites, college assignments,… Read More »