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Tacos, Time, and Task Management

Tacos, Time, and Task Management

The world demands far more of us than what we can possibly provide and it’s up to us to use our time in the best way possible. Far easier said than done, it requires diligent (and ruthless) prioritization of what matters.

A journey from engineer to management and back again

A journey from engineer to management and back again

At the beginning of 2022 I chose to laterally transition back into an engineer after 6 years in engineering management. There are not many examples of folks making this transition, so I want to share my journey.

My personal cloud journey

My personal cloud journey

How I took ownership of my data and got off the public cloud

An iPad Pro as a PC

An iPad Pro as a PC

Lately I’ve been using an iPad Pro 11" with a folding keyboard case as a laptop replacement. Here's how I think it stacks up for my three main use cases: Entertainment, Web browsing, and Development

More to life than work

More to life than work

Balancing your work and life is important to keep stress in check and improve ones productivity and long-term happiness at work. Many people talk about work-life balance but also struggle with maintaining it. It can be hard, especially a world of smartphones constantly buzzing and dinging with the latest notification

What's in a Cloud?

What's in a Cloud?

When I decided to begin hosting my own cloud services and get off Google, Microsoft, etc., the first thing I did was start documenting the things I absolutely needed. I ended up with a list of things that I think most people care about: * Email * Contacts * Calendar * File storage * Kanban

Alfred Yubico Authenticator

Alfred Yubico Authenticator

Alfred Workflow to filter and retrieve TOTP codes from your Yubikey

Dockron: Simple scheduling for Docker

Programming Featured

Dockron: Simple scheduling for Docker

What is Dockron? Dockron is a simple way to execute short-running containers on a schedule via Docker labels using minimal configuration.

Putting Faces to Names

Putting Faces to Names

Improving the self hosted experience by syncing Google and Gravatar profile photos to Nextcloud/ownCloud contacts

Minitor: A Minimal Monitoring Tool

Self Hosting Featured

Minitor: A Minimal Monitoring Tool

If a service isn’t monitored, is it really running? The age old question. Since I started my voyage into self hosting, it had been mostly smooth sailing. That is, until the other day when, after about a year, I had my first server outage. The importance of knowing It

Building a self-hosted email assistant

Building a self-hosted email assistant

A little over a year ago I began my journey into self-hosting, and today I am off Google services. Initially, I had no issues giving up a few of the more minor features I couldn't replace. Things like auto identifying events, flight information, and package tracking in emails

Docker Orchestration from the Couch

Docker Orchestration from the Couch

When I decided to begin self hosting, I decided that I was going to do it with Docker [https://www.docker.com] very early on. Docker provides a good way for me to manage deployments without worrying about how different service dependencies might interact or how installation may vary depending

Dynamic Vim Themes

Dynamic Vim Themes

Obsessively keeping my Vim and Terminal themes in sync

Self Hosting: But why tho?

Self Hosting: But why tho?

Why would I, or anyone for that matter, go through the effort of self hosting their own web services when Google, Apple, and Microsoft all have powerful, free options? Are we paranoid? Bored? Masochistic? Maybe, but for many of us it comes down to being free. To be clear, I&

Lessons in Self Hosting

Lessons in Self Hosting

Several months ago, I decided to liberate myself from the corporate cloud ecosystem that I have been so heavily invested in. This was a decision based partly on political factors, but also heavily on my curiosity. I knew there would probably be trade offs, but I didn't know