Author: Matt
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Making use of my office television with Magic Mirror
I have a wall-mounted television in my office that, 99% of the time, sits idle. Sadly, the fully loaded RetroPie attached to it doesn’t get much Super Mario Bros action during the workday. But that idle Raspberry Pi had me thinking of ways to utilize that extra screen in my office. Since, well, 4 monitors…
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Teaching in a Professional Setting
Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.” George Bernard Shaw As you can imagine, in a family heavy in educators, this phrase lands anywhere from irksome to derogatory. As I have worked to define my own expectations in my new role, it occurs to me that Shaw got this wrong, and we have to…
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Packages, pipelines, and environment variables…. oh my!
I was clearly tempting the fates of package management when I called out NPM package management. Nuget was not to be outdone, and threw us a curveball in one of our Azure DevOps builds that is too good not to share. The Problem Our Azure Pipeline build was erroring out, however, it was erroring in…
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Node_Modules is the new DLL hell… Change my mind.
All I wanted to do over the weekend was take a React 16 class library, copy it, strip out the components (leaving the webpack configuration intact), and upgrade components. To call it a nightmare is being nice. My advice to anyone is this: upgrade components one at a time, and test between each upgrade voraciously.…
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Lab time is always time well spent.
The push to get a website out for my wife brought to light my neglect of my authentication site, both in function and style. As one of the ongoing projects at work has been centered around Identity Server, a refresher course would help my cause. So over the last week, I dove into my Identity…
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React in a weekend…
Last week was a bit of a ride. My wife was thrust into her real estate career by a somewhat abrupt (but not totally unexpected) reduction in force at her company. We spent the middle of the week shopping to replace her company vehicle, which I do not recommend in the current market. I also…
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Packer.io : Making excess too easy
A story on how what I thought would be a simple migration to Azure DevOps turned into tools that support my experimentation habit.
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Who says the command line can’t be pretty?
The computer, in many ways, is my digital office space. Just like that fern in your office, you need to tend to your digital space. What better way to water your digital fern than to revamp the look and feel of your command line?
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Home Lab: Disaster Recovery and time for an Upgrade!
It never fails that something breaks when I am on vacation. It wasn’t until I returned that I realized how extensive the damage was, and how my haste to fix it made it worse.
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Inducing Panic in a Software Architect
If there is one thing that anyone can do that immediately has me at a loss for words and looking for the exit, it is to ask this one question: “What do you do for a living?”