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• Homelab Ep. 0x003 - Homelab, hockey, and memory management

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  I unrack and all the computers in the rack to swap sticks of memory around, upgrade my old Intel 4790K rig to an AMD 3200G, and keep you posted on whatever hockey game I happen to be watching in the moment.

• Homelab - Ep. 0x002 - Updating TrueNAS Scale and expanding a pool

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  Battling multiple minor issues while updating TrueNAS Scale.

• Coding Just For Fun - Ep. 0x003 - Part 3: Conway's Game of Life (overcomplicated)

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  Part 3 of 3 (overcomplicated): Just relaxing and having fun where we overcomplicate the implementation of Conway’s Game of Life from part 2.

• Coding Just For Fun - Ep. 0x002 - Part 2: Conway's Game of Life (intermediate)

  Description

  Part 2 of 3 (intermediate): Just relaxing and having fun where we update the implementation of Conway’s Game of Life from part 1 to an intermediate level.

• Coding Just For Fun - Ep. 0x001 - Part 1: Conways Game of Life (beginner friendly)

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  Part 1 of 3: Just relaxing and having fun making a simple implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in Python.

• Homelab - Ep. 0x001 - Adding a Ryzen Proxmox Server To The Rack

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  I quickly walk through the gear in my server rack, some of the technical debt I’m currently facing in my homelab, and how I plan on begin addressing my issues by pulling a broken computer out of the rack and adding an AMD Ryzen rig to run Proxmox.

• Hello, Skiddie. I will never give you up

  Posted on Apr 24, 2025 3 mins

  We’re no strangers to love PHP

  I don’t currently have any kind of stats or log analysis for this website, but I was getting curious if I was getting any kind of traffic to my site and I wasn’t ready to dive into the world of website analysis tooling since I’m sure there’s a whole mess of options out there, so I did the lazy thing and just did a cat on the log and oh. my. lord. I was NOT ready for what I found.

• DevOps Your Job Hunt with GitHub Actions and the Google Gemini API For Fast-Feedback

  Posted on Mar 26, 2025 22 mins

  Start at the beginning: DevOps Your Résumé

  Back in 2016, I had just moved to the Portland Oregon area and was looking to reboot my tech career after taking about a year to explore other opportunities in video production. I was still fairly new to the city and as a result, I didn’t have much of a job network yet, so when a friend of mine who had also relocated from Chicago put out the word that he was looking for people to help organize DevOpsDays: Portland , I jumped at the chance.

• SealedSecrets to ExternalSecrets: A Tale of Credential Migration, Maintenance, and Rotation

  Posted on Mar 6, 2025 20 mins

  Why did we migrate?

  The company I worked for had been a long time user of Bitnami’s SealedSecrets. SealedSecrets comes with a lot of great advantages, with one of the main ones being that you don’t need any special considerations when committing code to your repository. The secret is “sealed” (encrypted), so any credentials can be directly committed to the repository without any significant concerns of an account being compromised. However, new policies at the company concerning credential rotation were being implemented which highlighted some very significant pain points around with using SealedSecrets, the largest two among them being the workflow to add a secret, and the visibility into where the same credential has been used in multiple places.

• Under the Sea: trying out Digital Ocean's FaaS offering for the first time

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  Join Danielle Heberling and Alastair Drong as they build on Digital Ocean’s FaaS offering for the first time. Follow along as they figure out where to go, what the options are, and how to deploy a function using only their AWS Lambda knowledge. How easily can their skills transfer??