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Short and sweet writings/ramblings for anything technology-related.

I hope to eventually include some backpacking/camping, hiking trail stories here as well.

This will also include notes and solutions for any strange problems I've encountered throughout my career.

Jul 19 2024

Today, many organizations, system administrators and regular people woke up to a wild Friday. Crowdstrike pushed a faulty update to their …

Jul 01 2024

Was doing some experimenting with setting the PHP-FPM service to a maximum of 90% using the CPUQuota=90% setting in the …

Jan 20 2024

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I figured I would start a list of companies that I will no longer support or purchase from. To get things …

Dec 16 2023

Working on a SaaS project developed in PHP 8.2 that was put on pause for a months. I copied some …

Jun 19 2023

Ace and I spent the weekend up in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park at Broad Cove Campground. Dylan, Danielle …

May 12 2023

Each year a competition runs where people pitch their ideas to a team of judges to win some money to …

Apr 16 2023

Great summary by Chester Grant of the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug. I actually own a copy of …

Mar 11 2023

Recently, I've become aware of more instances of scammers using a tactic against our clients called "domain slamming". There are …

Dec 31 2022

Just want to wish everyone who finds this a happy new year and nothing but good things to happen in …

Jul 16 2022

Quick note for anyone who is running an instance of zwavejs2mqtt to control their zwave devices through docker. After a …

Apr 12 2022

While revamping some of our VPS we use to host some client websites I found a strange issue with nginx …

Jul 11 2021

HomeAssistant is an amazing open source solution to automate the digital aspects of your life and living space. They have …

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