Category: Software
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Using Architectural Decision Records
Decision-centric design helps bridge the gaps between architects and agile teams, allowing for consistency while supporting speed and agility.
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Streamlining my WordPress Install
My professional change served as a catalyst for some personal change. Nothing drastic, just messing with this site a little.
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One Task App to Rule them All!
New job means new systems, which prompted me to reevaluate my task tracking. State of the Union For the last, oh, decade or more, I have been using the ClearContext Outlook plugin for task management built into Outlook. And I really like it. I have become proficient with the keyboard shortcuts that let me quickly…
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Jumping in to 3D Design and Printing
As I’ve been progressing through various projects at home, I have a few 3D printing projects that I would like to tackle. With that, I needed to learn how to design models to print. This has led me down a bit of a long road, and I’m still not done…. What to use? A colleague…
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Hackintosh – Windows 11 Edition
About a year ago, I upgraded my home laptop to Windows 11. I swapped out my old system drive (which was a spinner) for a new SSD, so I had to go through the process again. I ran into a few different issues this time around that are worth putting to paper. Windows 10 Install…
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Tech Tip – Options Pattern in ASP.NET Core
I have looked this up at least twice this year. Maybe if I write about it, it will stick with me. If it doesn’t, well, at least I can look here. Options Pattern The Options pattern is a set of interfaces that allow you to read options into classes in your ASP.NET application. This allows…
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SonarCloud has become my Frank’s Red Hot…
… I put that $h!t on everything! A lot has been made in recent weeks about open source and its effects on all that we do in software. And while we all debate the ethics of Hashicorp’s decision to turn to a “more closed” licensing model and question the subsequent fork of their open source…
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Taking my MagicMirror modules to Typescript
It came as a bit of a shock that I have been running MagicMirror in my home office for almost two years now. I even wrote two modules, one to display Prometheus alerts and one to show Status Page status. In the past few years I have started to become more and more comfortable with…
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Tech Tip – You should probably lock that up…
I have been running in to some odd issues with ArgoCD not updating some of my charts, despite the Git repository having an updated chart version. As it turns out, my configuration and lack of Chart.lock files seems to have been contributing to this inconsistency. My GitOps Setup I have a few repositories that I…
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Rollback saved my blog!
As I was upgrading WordPress from 6.2.2 to 6.3.0, I ran into a spot of trouble. Thankfully, ArgoCD rollback was there to save me. It’s a minor upgrade… I use the Bitnami WordPress chart as the template source for Argo to deploy my blog to one of my Kubernetes clusters. Usually, an upgrade is literally…