Handling Encodings in AngularHandling encodings has always been tricky. Fortunately, UTF-8 has become the dominant encoding for all things Internet, so if you stick…Jul 30, 2022Jul 30, 2022
Building with — pullThe other day I was building a container image to pick up some security fixes. When the image was built, it still had older versions of…Apr 16, 2022Apr 16, 2022
Replacing Docker with PodmanIf you work in a business with more than 250 employees and use Docker Desktop, you’re probably aware that the free use of Docker is ending…Jan 29, 2022Jan 29, 2022
ServiceNow WebhooksRecently I found myself wanting to get data out of ServiceNow. Typically, there are 2 ways to get data out of a platform: you either poll…Jan 31, 2021Jan 31, 2021
Authenticated Docker Pulls on KubernetesThis past November, Docker Hub started enforcing rate limits for image pulls for anonymous and free account users.Dec 5, 2020Dec 5, 2020
eero 6 ReviewMesh routers are a relatively new breed of routers; you can think of it as a central router supplemented by a number of extender nodes…Nov 30, 2020Nov 30, 2020
Pruning Stale BranchesJust a quick post on stale branches on this Black Friday. Like old docker images, Git branches that are no longer needed inevitably starts…Nov 27, 2020Nov 27, 2020
The Split that Blocked the Camel’s ThreadThis is a common pattern: you have a collection of objects — addresses, books, camels, whatever — and you want to farm them out to be…Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020
Blink XT2 ReviewHere’s the review of the Blink XT2 home security cameras I wrote a while back. It seems like an appropriate time to re-post it since Blink…Sep 5, 2020Sep 5, 2020
Writing an Alexa Skill — Part 1In my earlier post, I wrote about a couple Alexa skills I created to tell me when to take the garbage out. In this post I am going to…Aug 29, 2020Aug 29, 2020
Review of Safe by Hub6Occasionally, I like to write product reviews. And by “occasionally”, I mean I’ve done it twice for a friend’s site so far. Here’s the…Aug 21, 2020Aug 21, 2020
Microsoft is duo-ing it againOn the imminent launch of Microsoft’s Surface Duo mobile device, I’d like to reminisce about my love-hate relationship with Windows on…Aug 16, 2020Aug 16, 2020
Killing things on KubeI use this space to jot down quick notes sometimes, so I don’t have to go search for it every time. Today’s quick note is about how to…Aug 14, 2020Aug 14, 2020
Alexa, is it garbage pickup this week?Where I live and in the surrounding municipalities, organics and recyclables are collected every week, while regular garbage is collected…Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
Push to Multiple ReposEveryone uses Git. I’ve been using Git for a few years but still don’t fully understand its inner workings; I know enough just to get by.Aug 7, 2020Aug 7, 2020
No Space Left on Device :(I’m fairly diligent when it comes to clearing out old docker images. To remove dangling images (those tagged with<none>) I use the…Jul 29, 2020Jul 29, 2020
