How Conceive Great Ideas
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.
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Welcome to Programming Reality
Welcome to my website and blog. Join me as I share my exploration of reality through the lens of language, and primarily machine-readable language.
Read moreDeploying Services like Plex Behind an Nginx Reverse Proxy
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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.
Read moreReflections on this Past Week
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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.
Read morePersonal Infrastructure Part 3: Quality of Life Improvements with Justfile Automation
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In this post, I describe how I like to use Justfiles to make running common tasks easier.
Read morePersonal Infrastructure Part 2: Setting up Secret Storage for Ansible
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In this post, I'm going to explain one way to store secrets when using Ansible.
Read moreWhen to choose CFEngine over Ansible, and other IaC Tool Questions
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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.
Read morePersonal Infrastructure Part 1: Introduction and Basic Ansible Setup
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In this first step, I'm going to build Ansible skeleton project and test connectivity. I will explain the motivation, my existing setup, how I setup Ansible, and how I make the process a bit smoother and more secure.
Read moreDeploying A Basic Django Site using Ansible
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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.
Read morePersonal Infrastructure Part 5: Core Supporting Services
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In this post, I will describe the design of the core supporting services that will support the rest of the Personal Cloud.
Read moreSetting up Continuous Integration using Drone CI
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In this post I setup Drone CI to build my code automatically when pushed to Github.
Read morePersonal Infrastructure Part 4: Creating and Storing Initial Secrets
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In this post, I describe my technique for automating the creation of initial secrets for use in Ansible playbooks.
Read moreHow to Solve Any Problem and Win
In this article I describe in broad strokes how I approach any problem and succeed.
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