Blog

As I reflect back on this week of writing, I am touched by how much I'm enjoying it. I'd like to share with you–or my future self–what I've been working on, and a bit of my inner experience this week.

The following is an excerpt of an essay I wrote to myself to guide my creative process. I share it with you with the hope it inspires insight into your own creative process.

In this article I describe in broad strokes how I approach any problem and succeed.

History of Infrastructure as Code Infrastructure as Code appears to be a natural evolution of computing and human thinking in general. In this post I explore the history of IaC tools and how to select then for a project.

In this post, I will describe the design of the core supporting services that will support the rest of the Personal Cloud.

In this post I describe deploying a simple Django based web application using Ansible into a production environment for use as an online storefront for a small business.

In this post I setup Drone CI to build my code automatically when pushed to Github.

In this setup, there is a computer running nginx with a public IP address. There is a DNS record for every service behind the proxy. I typically use one DNS A record for the nginx reverse proxy and create a CNAME record for each service.

In this post, I describe my technique for automating the creation of initial secrets for use in Ansible playbooks.

In this post, I describe how I like to use Justfiles to make running common tasks easier.