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2025

2025-06-24 Anubis has been installed – Protection from the LLM bots.
2025-06-05 Systems Self-Defense Part 3 – Why not redis, tho?
2025-06-02 Systems Self-Defense Part 2 – Integrating with external systems!
2025-05-05 Defaults are the only way – Customization is a problem for every company.
2025-04-16 Systems Self-Defense – Part 1 of building applications that can always run at maximum speed.
2025-03-18 Consequences of Deviance – Why everyone seems rude and we aren’t handling it.
2025-03-03 Wealth, Capitalism, and The Economy – The one time “quit acting like a child” is a valid criticism.
2025-02-26 Switching to FreeBSD – Moving to FreeBSD.
2025-01-15 Building Reliably – Maximum reliability and ease of maintenance over compactness/cleverness.

2024

2024-11-08 Hardware details – Updates as promised on the new server.
2024-11-06 November sucks – Get politcally active.

2023

2023-11-29 New hardware – Scaling up personal machines.

2022

2022-05-13 Reboot — Restarting the journal after years of silence.

2018

2018-07-22 The pace of change — Remarks on social, legal, and technological change.
2018-03-16 Follow up RE: Google — Further explanation on my rage-quit of Google.
2018-02-27 Google is terrible — Explanation for why I’m against Google now, despite my earlier support

2017

2017-11-02 Docker Shenanigans — Misbehaving with docker
2017-11-02 Docker Builder Pattern — Using the builder pattern to make smaller images
2017-10-24 Learning Rust — Learning Rust after developing a while in Go
2017-09-07 Why clean up git branches — What happens when git can’t keep up with the number of objects in a repository
2017-08-22 Ignorance costs us everything — Remarks on lessons forgotten about non-technical contributions
2017-08-15 It’s all politics — Thoughts on the Alt-Right movement and Charlottesville, VA
2017-08-03 Your Ops team is dying — Doing a little happy dance while the industry evolves
2017-08-01 Google Sites — Migrating to Google Sites
2017-07-24 Gophercon 2017 and other stuff — Some links and a few quick notes
2017-07-10 Scuba Certification — I’m now a Certified Open Water diver!
2017-06-14 Chromebook has arrived — it’s here!
2017-06-13 Final prep for Chromebook — Time to clear out the cobwebs!
2017-05-17 Whole30 rant — Gotta get something off my chest…
2017-05-16 Blog on a diet — Recent review of my eternal experimentation with this website.
2017-04-04 Life in Chrome (Part 2) — A follow-up to my original Life in Chrome post.
2017-03-30 Why encrypting everything on the internet makes sense — A short opinion piece explaining the need for encryption when it comes to the internet.
2017-03-23 Ongoing encryption efforts — What it says on the tin.
2017-03-07 Life in Chrome — What happens when you work entirely within in a browser?
2017-03-07 Get on the Upgrade Treadmill — Lessons learned about timely upgrades and procedures for doing so.
2017-03-04 Shifting blogging engines — My statements about moving this blog between Hugo, Wordpress, Blogger, and Ghost.
2017-03-04 Code Less — Suggestions on reducing code and layers of abstraction.

2016

2016-08-31 Redefining Stability — Stability comes with various assumptions, so let’s work on the definitions.
2016-08-29 Gitlab Follow-up — Follow-up on the GitlabCI post.
2016-08-16 Gitlab and GitlabCI — Introduction of Gitlab to my company and comparison with other solutions.
2016-03-16 Tech Choices and Pitfalls for DevOps — List of potential issues around choices of technology and how they are applied, with a focus on DevOps purposes.

2015

2015-12-18 Software Boundaries — A rant about working with what you have instead of complaining about what the thing isn’t.
2015-12-14 Forget NAT; Use Firewalls — An explanation as to why NAT and related designs are unnecessary in today’s internet.
2015-12-10 Why VPN in Google Cloud Platform is superfluous — Why a site-to-site VPN doesn’t make sense when operating in environments like Google Cloud.