So, as you may know about me, I’ve got a strong interest in open-source software. It’s fun: pull something for free, break it, get a new one. Free as in free beer appeals to my senses. And the horror of spending an extra hundred on a Windows license
I realized that this professional blog has begun to veer into personal stuff. I don’t really want this. Sure, we have tragedies in our lives. But if we are going to stay above the mire, we have to keep walking. So I’m going to discuss some of my
Travis was my roommate at Sangamon State University in 2008. We had a lot of fun times and he was one of the best men I knew from then until now. Two years ago, I saw him for the last time when my now-wife and I came back up from
A few days ago, my delighted wife and I completed purchase on a bit of condo space in Chicago. Given your beloved author is the primary techie of our house, it fell to me to build up our own at-home network. That’s right: finally, the chance to fully control
For the first time ever on hartr.net, cloud migration has resulted in a significant savings on AWS costs, which have been mitigated 90%. Migrating from Amazon towards DigitalOcean has also resulted in a 33% reduction in compute costs, which is terrific news for everybody who likes to read or
I went for my first run of the spring yesterday. It was really wonderful being able to go out and run on the newly-built Chicago riverfront walk. This particular segment wraps along the river between Irving Park and Addison, and there’s plenty space to avoid the other locals as
I’ve been keeping a small, folded piece of an old business card on my desk. It reads: ~ Push to git It’s a decent reminder. We often forget that our brains are limited: our capacity to store and pull the right information at the right time is downright saddening.
It’s been a few minutes, but I hope everybody has been up to some sort of good. Wow, the world has changed significantly since my last post. Again, I hope that everybody who reads this post is taking decent care of themselves and their own. Part of the shock
I’ve been doing a lot more research lately in an attempt to get up-to-date on the world as it exists in the enterprise IT operations world. Just a few years ago I was throwing server racks into the back of my Hyundai and driving them between sites during planned
Most of my site durations are about two minutes and eighteen seconds. So maybe it makes sense to have the stuff that I write to be readable in that amount of time. Maybe less. The secondary question is whether or not the majority of those visitors are bots. That’s
First of all, thanks for coming to this site. I put a decent amount of work into it, and I’m glad to see the metrics and the people popping in from time to time. I should apologize for the lag between entries, but we all have the rest of
This article might be a little bit longer. And probably not as poetic as the first one. It may be jarring, obtuse, infuriating and maybe none of these things. One thing it will be is a commentary on the existence of stuff itself. And non-stuff, which may technically be a