Labor Day Weekend

Posted on Mon 02 September 2019 in Updates • Tagged with React

It's a three-day weekend, and what does that mean? Well, probably getting sick, because the universe is cruel. But that aside, it's actually been quite a relaxing one - we had D&D on Saturday, and shortly before I discovered a very cool React project called The Spells of D&D …


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DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019

Posted on Sun 18 August 2019 in Programming • Tagged with CI/CD

This week, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend DevOps World / Jenkins World. Cloudbees, the "headline sponsor," shaped the event with a couple of interesting announcements, and several technologies dominated the sessions Tuesday through Thursday.

First and foremost: Kubernetes is leading the game, and is now considered the de facto …


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Splunk REST Calls in Search

Posted on Sun 30 June 2019 in Programming • Tagged with Splunk

The Splunk REST API is a powerful thing. You can even call it in your searches using | rest [path] and get back Splunk data. But what if you want to get dynamic details back, or call several endpoints, without knowing the exact URIs? Turns out, there's a very awesome way …


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Pixelbook mCover Hard Shell Case Mod

Posted on Sun 02 June 2019 in Hobbies • Tagged with Chromebook

Since I got my Pixelbook a while back, I've wanted a case that would work for both the laptop and tablet mode. Unfortunately, they really don't seem to exist. The closest I found was the mCover Hard Shell Case for 12.3" Google Pixelbook Chromebook, but even this wouldn't let …


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Memorial Weekend

Posted on Mon 27 May 2019 in Updates • Tagged with Reading, Home Improvement

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. The kids are officially on summer break, the house has had half a dozen projects to wrap, and work has ramped in an unexpected way. This weekend is supposed to be about rest for me, a couple days to catch up on R …


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