Lately I have been really getting into the workflow of containerizing dependencies, and using those containers to get work done. It’s also been a while since I regularly wrote a blog post, so I was pleasantly surprised today to find...

I use git at work, which is great, but I also still work on personal side projects for fun at home. I like to use my legal name and personal email when working on my own projects, but I prefer...

So Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is finally out. Is it the LTS that I’ve been waiting for? Ubuntu 15.10 was a fine operating system, but it promised out-of-the-box ZFS support, and didn’t really deliver on it. In the end I had...

It’s been a while since the last time I built a computer from scratch. I think it was in 2005. I say that because I remember a buddy of mine wanted me to play World of Warcraft with him and...

Having switched over to a Mac laptop brings with it some challenges when my main desktop is still running Linux. Since I recently took the time to install Xubuntu on my desktop machine, I thought I’d get everything setup again...

So a few weeks ago, I was playing around with building LLVM/Clang from source on my Azure hosted Ubuntu VM (a story for another time). The process would take a few hours, so I’d start it running in the evening,...

For those of you who don’t know, I work at a Microsoft shop. It’s not as bad as it initially sounds. Microsoft has changed a lot since the days when I was sure that they killed my pappy. By...

Unit testing is awesome. Working with legacy code, not so much. Of course when I say legacy code, I actually mean what Michael Feathers means: code that has no unit tests.

A while back I was getting started with...

Part of working through “Learning VimScript the Hard Way” involves sitting down and writing your own plugin for the Potion programming language. But before doing that I wanted to play around with the language for a little bit....

Barry Clark, the guy whose GitHub Page theme I forked, has already given the rundown on how to set up a Jekyll Now GitHub Page here. If you’re interested in going this route, I’d suggest that you check...

A while back I was playing around with a combination of Blogger and the browser based editor StackEdit. The results can be seen here.

It was pretty exciting for a while. The integration of StackEdit with Blogger...