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2024.12.02 Incremental Technical Automation

2024.11.30 2024: The Rise of S3-Backed OLTP Databases

Databases Cloud Architecture Tech Trends

2024.10.24 Database Best Practices

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2024.08.06 2024 State of the Union

2024.08.06 Improved e2e testing by replacing bats-core with deno+dax

2024.05.04 DBOps Automating infrastructure operations

2023.07.22 NLB Target Handling During pre-change and post-change Hooks

2023.07.01 Use presigned AWS STS get-caller-identity for authentication

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2023.05.10 On Reliability

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2023.04.12 Deno for Shell Scripting a Pagerduty helper

2023.04.07 Replacing inlined scripts with bundler inline

2023.04.06 Automatically Warm EBS Volumes from Snapshots

2023.04.06 3x Faster Mongodb Controlled Failovers

micro mongodb ops

2023.01.28 Use GEM_HOME for bundler inline

2022.11.22 Cost Optimizations

2022.11.05 Hugo to 0.105.0

2022.11.02 Export OSX Settings using `defaults` tool

micro configuration

2022.11.02 Dune's Litany on Reliability

2022.11.02 One hour on blog post and two hours fixing blog builds

2022.11.01 Storage Platforms for the Modern Era

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2022.02.16 Preparations for Exiting Non-Zero

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2022.02.12 Hiring That First Backend Engineer

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2022.02.08 Hyper Growth: A Hyperbolic Primer

2022.01.02 2021 Year in Review

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2021.12.28 Writing Two Joplin Plugins

2021.11.28 Mongo Deployment Experiment Using ASG, Consul and Terraform

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2021.11.26 Neovim+Vscode fix nargs bug

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2021.11.24 Awesome Bundler Feature: Inline Gemfiles

2021.04.13 The Power of Saying No

2021.04.11 Rails Security Practices Summary

2021.04.10 Startup Principles

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2021.04.09 Starting in a new environment

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2021.04.09 Speed up Docker for Golang and Node

2021.04.04 Using yubikey for SSH

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2021.03.29 Note Taking System

2021.03.25 Articles To Write

2021.03.24 Long Absence and New Excitement

2017.03.07 Mp4s To Gif From Twitter

2017.02.12 Solving Infinite Loop In NPM With Dtruss

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2017.02.01 Thoughts On Gitlab Data Incident

2017.01.31 Implementing Bayeux Client In Golang

2017.01.20 Announcing MoreSQL (Realtime Mongo -> PG streaming)

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2016.09.12 Good Dull Best Practices in Operations

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2016.09.07 Using Clojure on AWS Lambda

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2016.07.24 Reflections on Migrating Redis and PG

2016.07.24 Added Shortlinks To Hugo Blog

2016.07.24 Using Hugo Static Site Generator

2016.07.23 On Being a 10x Engineer

2016.07.21 Find and Remove Pesky pLists

2016.07.21 Spacemacs Go Mode and go set project

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2016.07.21 Dull and Reliable Golang

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2016.07.19 File watching revisited

2016.07.18 How to Verify Links After Blog Upgrade

2016.04.19 Feeding Postgres Triggers into the Firehose

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2014.11.01 Verizon Headers (UIDH): Basics and Avoidance Measures

2014.10.05 Employee vs Contractor Incomes for Sofware Developers

2014.06.27 Succeeding with Remote Work: Individually and As a Team

2014.06.20 So You Want to Program?: Starters Guide

2014.06.15 Running Command When File Changes

2014.06.07 Golang or Go Home: Getting Started with Go

2014.06.07 Swimming With the Big Kids

2014.06.05 Get rid of deprecation warning in OpenSSL::Digest::Digest

2014.06.05 No db:migrate? No problem

2014.03.21 Weather Github Downtime by Pushing to All the Places

2014.03.15 Git Archaeology - Find the Secrets of those Who Came Before

2014.03.11 Conference Advice: How to Meet Devs and Influence Ppl

2014.02.17 Pathogen.vim without the Submodules: Use Infect

2014.02.15 Finding myself in BSD

2014.02.15 Solving Issues with RVM on BSD

2014.02.13 Using Null Terminators in Linux/OSX

2014.02.09 Automating Email with Ruby

2013.06.20 Adventures with MRI 2.0.0 and Zlib: A Story of Malformed Gzips

2013.06.02 Don't fear pair programming - A Guide to Starting

2013.05.26 Buff - A Gem that Puts Muscle in the Buffer API

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2013.05.26 Starting with Vim

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2013.05.06 Travel Advice You Can't Afford to Miss

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2013.05.04 Privilege Means Responsibility

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2013.05.02 Hack Your Finances - Thoughts on Extreme Retirement Planning

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2013.04.29 Goals and Giving Back: Creating Meaning in Life

2013.04.24 Stop, Drop, and Sleep

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2013.04.20 Increasing Productivity with Shortcuts

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2013.04.12 RubyMidwest 2013: Lessons and Reflections

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2013.03.20 Pricing a Product: Napkin Math

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2013.03.09 Two Factor Authentication for All the Things

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2013.03.03 A Week with ThinkingRock GTD

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2013.02.23 Benchmarking GTD

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2013.02.21 Finite Keystrokes Before Death : Making the Most of Them

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2013.02.20 ThinkingRock GTD: Torn Apart

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2013.02.18 Executing Ruby from Vim

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2013.02.18 Making Marked.app Work with Vim

2013.02.18 Making Thinking Rock v2.1 Work on OSX 10.8

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2013.02.18 Toggling Pry in Ruby Script

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2013.02.17 The Value of Experienced Developers

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2013.02.16 Ignoring All the Things

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2013.02.14 Getting Started Configuring Bash/Zsh

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2013.02.14 Make the Shell Your $HOME

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2012.12.29 Trello-Archiver from Scratch

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2012.12.25 RCodeTools - How to get them working in VIM

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2012.12.24 Ruby Off The Rails - Ep. 1 -- Zero to Ruby -- Pt. 2

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2012.12.23 Ruby Off The Rails - Ep. 1 -- Zero to Ruby -- Pt. 1

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2012.12.22 JDBC, MsSQL, and JRuby, Oh My!

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2012.12.18 Refactoring... a Weighty Question

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2012.12.16 Easy SSH Tunnel on OSX

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2012.12.15 rcodetools and VIM

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2012.11.26 Script to Update Sandy Knolls Metes and Bounds Software on OSX

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2012.11.01 Migrating NeoRouter Server to new VPS

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2012.09.12 OSX and Linux Tools I can't live without

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2012.08.22 CodeRetreat @SteelCityRuby - Things I learned

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2012.08.19 Swap out BAD line endings for Unix standard

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2012.08.12 CodeRetreat @SteelCityRuby: A Post Mortem

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2012.08.06 Dear OSX Mail.app, go away

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2012.08.04 The Way Conferences Should be - SteelRuby Pittsburgh

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2012.07.31 FASD - The Commandline Shortcuts I always wanted

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2012.07.19 X11 Forwarding: Or How to use my favorite Calculator in OSX

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2012.07.15 My Firefox confuzzled my Nokogiri

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2012.07.06 File under 'Commands I should Know'

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2012.07.05 Awesome tool for recovering ecryptfs from Ubuntu/Canonical

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2012.07.05 Linux Command of the Day

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2012.07.04 Installing JungleDisk on Mint 13 (12.04)

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2012.06.25 Parallels - Your Ads belong in Trial Versions

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2012.05.29 Tmux, a reluctant love story

2012.05.28 An Exercise: Contact Scraping or How to Get Hired with ZeroMail

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2012.05.27 Todo.txt Count in RPrompt ZSH

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2012.05.24 VIM Movement command of the Day

2012.05.22 Why I love Open-Source Software

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2012.05.21 5 Days of OSX

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2012.05.21 Using ZSH's History Incremental Search with Vi-Mode

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2012.05.20 Useful VIM cheetsheet

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2012.05.20 VIM Video by Bram

2012.05.12 Keeping Track of Config Files with Git and Dropbox

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2012.05.12 My current favorite VIMRC one-liner

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2012.05.07 Slick ZSH Trick for Vi-Mode

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2012.04.29 Easier Directory Navigation

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2012.04.28 My Kingdom for a Good Fuzzy Finder

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2012.04.28 Switching to VIMRepress

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2012.04.25 Converting Images of Documents to Near Scanned Quality

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2012.04.25 Converting to Arch Linux

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2012.04.25 Label every image with its filename in one fell swoop

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2012.02.20 Fixing 'Disk Not Found' Error in Grub after apt-get upgrade

grub linux technology virtualbox

2012.02.19 Absence

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2011.10.06 More Adventures in Puppet

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2011.10.05 Uggh - "Puppet hostname doesnt match server certificate"

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2011.09.25 Launchy + Search Everything = Win

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2011.09.23 OpenEMR Virtual Appliance

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2011.09.16 Backticking command combo - Or how to not have to type long names

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2011.09.16 Tip for lost config lines by Mr. Grep

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2011.09.14 Brute Forcing scripts, IDS, and open phpinfo() page...

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2011.09.09 OpenEMR 4.0 Ubuntu-Debian Package Installation - Oemr

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2011.09.08 GoogleAnalytics and TikiWiki

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2011.09.07 Debian install on HP TM2t error

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2011.09.07 Extract Data from a website to Excel - Grab HTML tables to Excel spreadsheets | OutWit Technologies Blog

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2011.09.07 How to Improve WordPress Security | Interconnect IT - WordPress Consultants, Web Development and Web Design

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2011.09.06 How to Fix FreeNX pub key problem on #! Linux

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2011.09.05 PHP5-Curl installed but not found by WP plugin Open Book

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2011.09.05 Traditional Beginnings

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2011.09.05 Tribute to Linus (with due credit to Isaac Hayes)

linustorvald technology

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