Achievement Unlocked: AWS Certified Developer Assoc. (DA)

After many months of delay and procrastination I finally scheduled to sit the AWS Developer Assoc. exam. I was passing the practice exams from acloud.guru…

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

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…

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

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…

Ethernet, 30 years old and still rockin’.

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…

Added Disqus commenting ability.

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…

Great article on Pull Requests

`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…

What I learned from the 2018 JetBrains Developer ecosystem survey…

  JetBrains, like many other organizations, doe a yearly survey for anyone willing to take a couple minutes and submit some answers. As such all…

Sharing some resources.

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.

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…

`git stash` magic

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.