I've been trying to read more recently and finished about 18 books last year. I am aiming for 4 books a month this year. I figured I might as well do a quick review of what I've been reading and only made it through 3 books in January unfortunately. I'm …

Last year around this time I decided that I would start buying music regularly from Bandcamp.com instead of using subscription services. I had bought music sporadically previously but realized it was time to start supporting the artists I care about more regularly. Subscription services don't benefit many of the …

Late last year I shut down the first full scale project I had built. It was an excellent learning experience (as documented here). I didn't make any money on that project, but the cost of learning was pretty low. A few weeks ago I finished the initial content and made …

Recently I wanted to created a scheduled Lambda event that would send a message to an SQS queue. I ended up using Cloudwatch to trigger a Python based Lambda event that would make a call to the appropriate queue.

This process was pretty easy to set up and required configuration …

Over the past few years I've been trying to eat more and more vegetarian meals both to reduce how much meat I eat and reduce costs. Bulking and cutting for physical fitness is an expensive endeavor, so any time I can I want to explore these potential options. I've been …

Earlier this week I read an interesting blog post from packagecloud.io talking about some testing they had done to set the TZ environment variable to reduce system calls. I thought this was a great idea for users who wanted to set their environment variable for a specific script or …

A few weeks ago my Windows 7 machine wouldn't post. I spent a good number of hours troubleshooting the problem but ended up having to RMA my mobo. Upon return I hooked everything back up, and while it would post as soon as Windows started up the processor was making …

Like everyone else in the IT world I deal with a lot of recruiters, and I'm constantly surprised by how abrasive and tactless many of them are. They act as though they are dealing with their available positions as a commodity, but they don't want to give out any details …

Today I launched my first short book (https://gumroad.com/hungryadmin#NkpmT) aimed at helping IT Recruiters become better at interacting with members of the IT community. I'm hoping that this field manual can help recruiters quickly become more familiar with what people in IT want to see when they're …

Ten months ago I launched remote-first (you can read more about that process here) which was the first paid product I've launched since I started working in IT. In this post I'm going to talk about why I believe it failed, the costs involved in such a failure, and how …