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Godspeed Boulder 1 and Curiosity 2 →
Attention all personnel on the launch pad: Vehicle loading is now completed. The flight director will now say a few words before we proceed with pre-flight checks.
*Ahem*
Here we now stand, but a few hundred feet short of the final test launch of our Boulder 1 booster rocket, so named for the...
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What It Looks Like To Build Automation From Scratch →
I've happily made a career out of writing code to do interesting things with server, network, and application infrastructure, and in that time I've found the signal-to-noise ratio of the common post/tweet/gist has been wildly lopsided in favor of people throwing often-incomplete or inaccurate script...
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Skyrim →
My recent gaming itch has seen me back to playing one of my favorite games of all time, Skyrim. The Elder Scrolls world is filled with people who will readily argue that Morrowind was better - to each their own, but for me Skyrim was the right game at the right time scratching the right itch, and wh...
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Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recover (Part 2) →
This is the continuation from Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recovery (Part 1). In this part, I'll talk about some of the steps I took to start recovering and improving my systems after the events of Part 1.
Initial Recovery
Following a series of cascading failures, I had discovered some severe...
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Disaster Recovery, Hold the Recovery (Part 1) →
Around two weeks ago I had the experience of testing my disaster readiness in my home lab. To my surprise, I found it sorely lacking, which means that the circumstances, shortcomings, and fallout make a perfect candidate for a post on how not to manage your infrastructure.
Buckle up, because th...
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Grav: Thoughts and Observations →
This will probably be a shorter post than usual, but since the original purpose of building this site was to experiment and play around with Grav, I thought it was worth a quick post to cover what I think of it now that I've been using it for awhile. And I do mean quick - this hasn't undergone the...
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The Discovery Process →
I sat down tonight and decided to tinker with a new tool called Ansible Doctor, and it struck me that maybe that was a good topic for a post. I also realized, however, that it might make sense to make another post laying out how I go about this sort of stuff, partially so I can just link to this...
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A Weekend of Factorio →
In February of 2017 I purchased a game that I had seen someone raving on Reddit about called Factorio. For the uninitiated, Factorio is a game about designing processes to Do A Thing™. At the time, my thinking was "okay, a couple random people said it was cool, the video looks neat, and it's twent...
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An Edge Case for Jenkins Shared Libraries →
I recently ran into an interesting problem with Jenkins which I thought was fitting for a write-up: shared pipeline development. This is probably an edge case, and I won't claim to have nailed the exact perfect solution to it, but hopefully by putting my thought process down on paper, someone search...
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Musings on World of Warcraft →
If there's one thing a gaming blog needs, it's opinionated armchair critics talking about what they think of the years of hard work developers put in to building games for us to play.
So buckle up, because I have opinions.
Background
I've played WoW since classic. According to google, that w...