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I have never signed a non-compete agreement, and here's why...

My first job out of University was in the IT department of a payment processing and debt collection company. My desk was juxtapose to a call center w...
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There's a certain type of satisfaction at getting Linux running on hardware designed to be propriety and closed. In the following post, I document installing Linux on a current generation MacBook Pro.

MacBook Pro 14,3 Running Gentoo Linux Since 2012, at the last three jobs I’ve held as a software engineer, I’ve always used Li...
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In a previous post, I introduced Bee2, a Ruby application designed to provision servers and setup DNS records. Later I expanded it using Ansible role...
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You should have different passwords for every service you use, but some people find password managers cumbersome. There is an alternative: using a password algorithm.

Sometime in 2008, MySpace had a data breach of nearly 260 million accounts. It exposed passwords that were weakly hashed and forced lowercase, making...
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In a previous post, I showed how I wrote a provisioning system for servers on Vultr. In this post, I’m going to expand upon that framework, adding su...
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Recently I've been exploring moving my web applications and content to another provider. In this post, I look at automating the process of provisioning and configuring servers using Bee2, a custom script I designed in Ruby.

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Bee2, a simple framework I built in Ruby for provisioning servers on Vultr
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This is a short follow up to a review I did a few years ago on Cloud at Cost. Surprise, surprise, it seems like their one-time server cost model isn't working out so well, as they changed their terms of services to add a $9/year fee for the few customers that don't totally hate their products.

Back in 2013, a startup known as Cloud at Cost attempted to run a hosting service where users paid a one-time cost for Virtual Machines (VMs). For a ...
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I use to work at the University of Cincinnati and whenever I got frustrated at staff meetings, I’d threaten to move to Australia.
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I've noticed more creators starting Patreon pages. Although many of them are film makers who have had videos demonetized on YouTube, there are also a considerable amount of musicians, visual artists, photographers and bloggers who have embraced the platform for supporting long term, continual projects.

This post talks about how Patreon has bridged the gaps left by other services, and how its model provides a basic tip jar for those starting out, as well as scaling up to larger projects.

In recent months, there has been considerable debate by videos creators on YouTube about the future of generating revenue through Google’s extremely ...
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How I plan to quit my job and travel around the US
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When I lived in Australia, sending money to an individual or business was as simple as knowing their Bank State Branch (BSB) number and account numbe...
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For the past couple of years, we’ve seen a substantial amount of research committed by the tech and auto industry into self driving vehicles. Billions of dollars are being spent on a solved problem;
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Earlier this year, I decided to build a development desktop. It’s the first PC I’ve fully built in at least four years. While I was backpacking, I relied...
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Mesosphere DC/OS is a data center operating system, based on Apache Mesos and Marathon. It’s designed to run tasks and containers on a distributed archit...
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Thin-ITX Router I had been using a Banana Pi BPI-R1 as my router. Due to some reliability issues, I attempted to replace it with a...
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..I found disappointing mess of hardware and software. The manufacturer has refused my request for a return, leaving me with a $240 USD worthless brick.
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Stability and hardware can cause the BPI-R1 to reboot as a switch, effectively disabling the firewall, leaving internal machines in a potentially vulnerable state.
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StarTech SV231MDPU2 KVM Switch I recently I purchased a 4K monitor which I intended to use with both my laptop and my desktop. Bot...
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