But why is it that way?
On November 21, 2024, Kristine Arges, my ex-wife and mother to Bonnie, passed away after a multi-year struggle with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). She was a great and dedicated parenting partner. Divorced parenting can be hard, and with Kris, her dedication…
On to plan D! After a few good months of experimentation since my last post, I’ve come to the conclusion that Azure is not the place to meet my goals. Let\’s recap on the goals, and how well Azure and…
On to plan C! After a fair amount of googling and noodling, I’ve come to the conclusion that Linodes LKE Kubernetes service can’t do what I want it to, at least in a way that doesn’t feel hacky and get…
As a matter of learning, and to get my personal sites off of the cobbled VPS where they’ve happily lived for a while, I took on migrating them all to a Kubernetes cluster. How hard could it be, right? Or…
In my last How I Work post, I was much enamored with Bullet Journaling – or BuJo for short – for note capture. As a recap, I had never used a note-taking system that worked the way my brain did, and as such,…
I\’ve been taking a hard look at how I do work. By that, I mean how I chose what work to do and how I arrange my day to make it happen. There have been a few iterations over the…
For my now-retired at-home hosting, and for my first migration to the cloud, I used CoreOS as my hosting OS. It\’s optimized to be a container server and for super-efficient automated deployments. It worked well, and I loved the elegance…
About last year at this time, Susie and I were knee-jerking to the fresh news of my cancer, and the first bucket list thing we jumped on was a long-discussed trip to Hawaii. It was an utterly amazing trip, and…
Ever since we made the move to AT&T Uverse Fiber – and happily said “See ya!” to TimeWarner / Spectrum – we’ve been a household with clocks adrift. NTP (Network Time Protocol) set up on servers didn’t work – although…
Finally, after much wrangling with Apache, PHP, WordPress and its multisite configuration, and SSL certificates, I think I have our little network of sites up, usable, and secure. Time will tell.