Back in February I decided that it was time to take Melisandre in for a check up. Not because anything was wrong, but because I wanted to feel comfortable with the car and the status of the engine for a long drive or a road trip. One of these days …

So over the weekend I completed my first oil change in my Mustang. I can honestly say it was just as easy as I thought it would be. But the fact that I've never done an oil change before still leaves me a little baffled.

Luckily my friend was …

While working on stack-docker I was working on revamping the project to no longer include passwords as environments variables. There have been to many incidents as of late with big companies who have accidentally leaked passwords in log files or tracebacks etc. This got me to thinking we should …

So I've decided that 2020 is the year I start my magical migration away from all things google.

For the last year or so I've been slowly using DDG as my main search engine. It rarely disappoints but when it does, it's very easy to change your query …

Well we finally did it. It's been over a year since Maya and I went on our last vacation. In that time we've also increased the size of our family by one as well.

For this trip instead of going to Europe or doing something that required us to …

I'm up for a laptop refresh at work, and as usual I got a Lenovo laptop and I'm going to install Arch Linux on it. this time around I'm getting an X1 Extreme. Previously I had the X1 Yoga and before that I had the X1 Carbon. I've run arch …

Finally, I can say that I'm no longer using Feedly for my RSS feeds. Back when google shut down Google Reader, I was sad, and Feedly came along to offer me a service that would make me happy. They would import all my feeds and everything would be swell. Well, …

So today is the day I had to renew my Let's Encrypt certs. Unfortunately, it wasn't as easy as I hoped, and my renewal process isn't going to be as simple as I thought.

Fortunately doing it manually was still simple. I just don't want to have to do …

Let's encrypt created the ability to create wildcard certs last year (2018). Since I've been working on some Indieweb standard for my site I decided that getting some SSL would be good to have. Especially since I want to write my own auth server for using Indieauth. I …

So I've been working a lot on this new page behind the scenes. It definately has a lot more going on the backside than on the front side.

I'm hoping that I can use this site as a mechanism to learn some React and get better at JS. But that …