Or how I learned to shut up and love the disaster. When I was growing up, my parents didn’t let me watch a lot of TV. We didn’t have a cable subscription and the only things that were reliably on the “boob tube” were Blazers games and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Even though I …
One of the services I run in my homelab is the Cat of the Day (CotD). Over the past few days I’ve noticed that it hasn’t been sending out the pictures and inspirational quotes that my loyal user base (~10 people 🙄 ) have come to rely upon for their morning boost of positivity in …
Recently I was tasked with implementing Redis with Cluster Mode enabled for my company’s production application. One of the nice things about working in the modern software age is that cloud providers abstract a lot of complexity away from you. In our case, we are implementing AWS’ ElastiCache, which supports Redis Cluster Mode natively. However, …
Uniting Go, Redis Cluster Mode, Postgres, and Docker into Something Meh Read More »
(Image credit to quasilyte on DeviantArt) Disclaimer: The code you are about to read is not safe for work. Because it is terrible. It is here if you dare. I’ve saved off the results in the 24_hours branch. To save some sort of professional dignity, I’ve made some touchups to the main branch. At my …
For software developers, a Pull Request (PR) is a foundational unit of work. Although there are quite a few software engineers that I’ve encountered that are more on the isolationist side, most are naturally collaborative. Asking for feedback is something that we do often. A PR is fundamentally a request for feedback upon a slice …
This post is a continuation of Stocks vs Sports. Please see the previous post, Inception, for more context. See all the code on Github. When trying to compare bets made on Wall Street against those made in Vegas, I’ll need data. Lots of data. In order to do anything useful, I need to be able …
I love gambling on sports. I never win money, but adding a bit of risk to an otherwise mundane matchup can make watching games more exciting. I don’t love gambling on the stock market. It just isn’t as much fun. In both cases, I take my money and use it to buy a chance at …
There are a lot of important books that are recommended for software developers. A data-driven answer about which programming books get recommended online revealed a lot of the usual suspects. The top five are commonplace books that every developer should have on their shelves: The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt Clean Code …
A detailed guide outlining the steps that I took to create a Kubernetes Cluster with external storage using Raspberry Pis and a Synology NAS. This is not intended to be a “how to”! It is more of a reference for how I did it.
A background and summary of the experiences I’ve had attempting to make a viable computing infrastructure using cheap hardware in my own home.