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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.

Nov 22 2024

I don't normally share a digital glimpse into my real-world personal life, but this week has been the hardest I’ve …

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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