In a couple of my recent posts I talked about figuring out what is next in my career and my adventure into solo mining cryptocurrency. Two themes came out of those posts: I like giving my computers something interesting to do while I’m not sitting at them, and I wanted to spend serious time learning…
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I’ve always been interested in allowing my computer to do something while I’m not sitting at it. During my time at college that meant running Folding@Home or SETI@Home. In recent years that has turned to mining cryptocurrency. I am aware that I’m late enough to the game that trying to mine much of anything with…
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In an unfortunate turn of events I recently parted ways with my most recent employer. While it’s cliche to say this I did learn a ton in the five years I was at that position. While I am scared and worried about my near term future I plan for this post to work through what…
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Recently I setup a new WordPress instance on Linode that I planned to copy a backup of this blog to. The instance was easy to setup and UpdraftPlus made it easy to import the backup. Normal issues with restoring a back up to a new instance such as making sure the domain of the site…
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Early in my career I had reason to use Vim when working on Linux based applications. I found that it made the editing, compile, test loop faster than it would be if I was editing on Windows. In recent years, however, many of the applications I have worked on have been either Windows based or…
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Ok, yes, that headline is a hot take that borders on clickbait. And it is also true for many Software Developers/Engineers; typing code is often the smallest part of the job. From my experience figuring out what to type is the hard and time consuming part of the work. “So What?” you might ask. This…
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Recently I started my journey on learning to use AI for writing and programming. My first post was about the tools I chose to use and getting them setup on my computer. The next post I planned to write is about using coding specific LLMs to help write a tool to use the CloudFlare API…
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I’ve been a software engineer for roughly twenty years now. For most of my career I have worked on what many would consider “legacy code”; applications such as payroll calculations and some embedded applications. Nothing that is on the bleeding edge of technology. This has often put me solidly in the camp of those resistant…
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If you have a Minecraft world that you’ve spent time building, it is important to back up that world. There are many things that could happen on your world that might make you want to restore it to a previous state (a creeper destroying something you’ve built for example). As part of our Minecraft hosting…
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So your kids are playing or asking about Minecraft. What is Minecraft all about? And what is a creeper? This is an intro to Minecraft to help out!
