My 2021 Highlights

A couple of weeks ago I switched from KDE to Gnome on my work computer and think I finally have a setup I will stick with for a good long while. I absolutely hate stock Gnome, but with the right ex...

A computer I built in May of 2013 for my parents has now been upgraded from Windows 10 to Pop_OS! Dad is really happy with the new setup too! One of the cool thins about using Linux is that it can ...

I created a new repository called vmpooler-deployment that contains Dockerfiles and a Helm chart that can be used to deploy VMPooler. The DIO team at Puppet uses the code here as part of operating ...

Today marks a big day in the history of the VMPooler application: the code that allows using vSphere as a source of machines was extracted from the main application into its own repository and gem....

I circled back to some work around distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry today and added manual instrumentation to VMPooler's API so that we can better see what's going on under the hood and wher...

Tonight was my beading ceremony celebrating the completion of my Wood Badge ticket. I am honored to join the long line of Scouters who’ve completed this program. Wood Badge is an advanced national ...

Finished migrating an application from Mesos to Kubernetes… and shut down all of our Mesos infrastructure! This was a long time coming and went off with minimal hiccups.

Things in the world of desktop Linux have improved so much that I’ve just wrapped up moving to using Linux Mint 20.2 & the Cinnamon desktop as my primary OS. Achieving my standard triple monitor se...