Since folks seemed to like the first one, I figured I would do another one. These are just interesting stories from my whole time doing IT-type work. Feel free to subscribe via RSS but know that this isn't the only kind of writing I do. Getting Started I…
My love of WordPerfect and discovering the full written history of the product and company.…
Fun stories from my time working as an AppleCare Dispatch contractor going door to door in Chicago.…
We live in dangerous times. The average level of peacefulness around the world has dropped for the 9th straight year. The impact of violence on the global economy increased by $1 trillion to a record $17.5 trillion. This is equivalent to 13% of global GDP, approximately $2,200 per…
There is no denying that containers have taken over the mindset of most modern teams. With containers, comes the need to have orchestration to run those containers and currently there is no real alternative to Kubernetes. Love it or hate it, it has become the standard platform we have largely…
I love reading. It is the thing on this earth that brings me the most joy. I attribute no small part of who I am and how I think to the authors who I have encountered in my life. The speed by which LLMs are destroying this ecosystem is a…
One interesting thing about the contrast between infrastructure and security is the expectation of open-source software. When a common problem arises we all experience, a company will launch a product to solve this problem. In infrastructure, typically the core tool is open-source and free to use, with some value-add services…
One complaint I hear all the time online and in real life is how complicated infrastructure is. You either commit to a vendor platform like ECS, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk or Cloud Run or you go all in with something like Kubernetes. The first are easy to run but lock you…