Category: Software
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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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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?”
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Simple Site Monitoring with Raspberry PI and Python
My off-hours time this week has been consumed by writing some Python scripts to help monitor uptime for some of my sites. Build or Buy? At this point in my career, “build or buy” is a question I ask more often than not. As a software engineer, there is no shortage of open source and…
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First Impressions: Windows Terminal
From my early days on the Commodore 64 to my current work with Linux (/bin/bash) and Windows (powershell, mostly), I have spent a tremendous amount of time in command lines over the course of my life. So, when I stumbled across Windows Terminal, it seemed like a good opportunity to evaluate a new container for…
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To define or document? Methods for generating API Specifications
There is an inherent “chicken and egg” problem in API development. Do we define a specification before creating an API implementation (specification-first), or do we implement an API and generate a specification from that implementation (code-first)?
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Designing for the public cloud without breaking the bank
How can application architects design software solutions that can utilize the public cloud while allowing for cost optimizations that will increase profit margins? While it is not easy, it is possible.
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Immutable Build Objects
Before I can make a case for Immutable Deployable Artifacts (I’m going to use IDA for short), it is probably a good idea to define what I mean by that term. Regardless of your technology stack, most systems follow a similar process for building deployment artifacts: get code, fetch dependencies, build code, putting together the…