Back Up And Running
I’m back. The last couple of months have been hectic, from a personal standpoint. I walked away from my rancher instance, and dealt with what I had to deal with.Read More »Back Up And Running
I’m back. The last couple of months have been hectic, from a personal standpoint. I walked away from my rancher instance, and dealt with what I had to deal with.Read More »Back Up And Running
In case you are not aware, I write software for a company called BoomTown. It’s a not-so-startup in Charleston, SC. We offer a CRM for… Read More »TCP Overhead
My brother is a data scientist. In his free time he comes up with some interesting things. One thing that was pretty interesting was a simulation of the economy.Read More »The 1%
I get contacted a lot with job offers. Most of them want me to work “for no money” and accept payment with equity. Read More »Payment with Equity
I’ve been writing software nearly every day for just over 20 years now; whether it was a personal project, school project, contract job, or salary. It’s been fun, to put it mildly. I’m glad the 10,000 hour rule was tossed out, because I’m far from a world class expert.Read More »Change of Schedule
Just a heads up — this no longer works! We’ll have to go back to the drawing board to update. I just bought three raspberry… Read More »Running a multi-arch cluster with Rancher/Docker
A lot of people think I don’t like Docker, and I’m here to tell you that’s not true. In fact, I feel like a magician about to show his huge magic trick of the show. In the next couple hours this blog post will be live along with a huge framework… Let me tell you about it.Read More »Husband + Dad + Docker + WP + Hugo == this
Docker has fixed this, as noted in their awesome comment. Leaving the original contents around for now, thanks Docker!Read More »Docker Compose will publish your source code for free in Docker 1.12
I don’t think I’m the first one to ever say this, but rewriting software is perhaps one of the most risky things you can do in a project, not to mention a business.
They’re risky because it takes a human to transfer knowledge from one system to another that behave subtly differently. I’m about to show you exactly what I just caught myself doing while rewriting a part of my “super top-secret” project that I’ve been working on for a few years.Read More »Rewrites Are Dangerous
When I first started down the path to the Clam project, I realized I could get sub-second responses when the db/cache/php/nginx were all collocated on the same machine. It literally removes almost all network effects. That being said, how could I use that to my advantage?Read More »Scalability and WordPress (In Theory)