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Feb 22

Why I abandoned Node for Python

The nature of my coding tasks have changed through the course of my career. I’ve recently made yet another language change and have found the benefits of Python. The article title says “Abandoned”. Abandoned is not the right word here. I never really abandon anything related to coding. I mean…

Node

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Why I abandoned Node for Python
Why I abandoned Node for Python
Node

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Dec 9, 2022

Sneaky Alberta Politicians

Alberta Sovereignty Act leaves a bad tase. Politics has always been full of shenanigans. More so with the MAGA movement in the US and the extremism embracing the “right” parties around the world lately. Alberta, Canada has seen some of this extremist mentality creep into its local politics. Recently the…

Canada

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Sneaky Alberta Politicians
Sneaky Alberta Politicians
Canada

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Dec 9, 2022

Bluetooth Issue(s) with fresh Debian Install

I just installed a new Debian system with KDE for my desktop. I was able to see my devices in the Bluetooth manager. I was even able to begin pairing. But the devices refused to connect. Instead I would get a generic “Protocol not available” error. The fix: I needed to install…

Debian

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Bluetooth Issue(s) with fresh Debian Install
Bluetooth Issue(s) with fresh Debian Install
Debian

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Dec 5, 2022

Adding Python to the Resume

Join me on my crash learning efforts with Python — I’ve been writing code professionally since around December 1999. In that time I have seen various languages as my career took me to different areas. It seems that Python was always there in the background, but never quite the “right” answer for the tasks I was working on. …

Python

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Adding Python to the Resume
Adding Python to the Resume
Python

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Dec 5, 2022

Outlook PWA Not Working

How I fixed it Outlook supports a Progressive Web application (PWA). However I could not get it installed with Chrome. Changing the language in Outlook solved the problem for me. I’m running Google Chrome on my Debian desktop system. Work requires me to use Office 365, and therefore MS Outlook…

Email

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Outlook PWA Not Working
Outlook PWA Not Working
Email

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Oct 11, 2021

Email Hosting Horror

Or, am I just being impatient? — I have a handful of domains that are primarily used for email purposes. Over the years I have had to move these domains to different mail providers. I have just done this exercise again and have learned a valuable lesson. TLDR: Zoho has been a horrible experience I cannot recommend…

Sysadmin

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Email Hosting Horror
Email Hosting Horror
Sysadmin

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Jul 2, 2021

Docker and Podman tag team fail

The incumbent was just more flexible — I have a project that basically creates a custom Debian distribution image. This distribution image provides the operating system for custom hardware. There was a desire to use Containers for building this image as the process seems well suited for that. After working with it for a while I have…

Docker

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Docker and Podman tag team fail
Docker and Podman tag team fail
Docker

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Jun 8, 2021

I did NOT say Node is better than PHP

Reflecting on my most popular article — I wrote an article in October about my journey as a developer. In that article I explained why I felt that shifting from PHP to Node.js was the right choice for me. I have to say I was surprised at the feedback I got. …

Nodejs

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I did NOT say Node is better than PHP
I did NOT say Node is better than PHP
Nodejs

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Jun 3, 2021

Generate GPG key without passphrase

Remove prompts from your command line scripts — I had a recent task to automate building a custom Debian image, using some custom software wrapped up as *.deb packages. These packages are stored in an local APT repository via reprepro (also created and populated by our script). The problem I kept running into was my script would prompt…

Bash

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Generate GPG key without passphrase
Generate GPG key without passphrase
Bash

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·May 25, 2021

How to get your IP from a BASH script

For when you have many network interfaces — The short version: ip addr show $(ip route | awk '/default/ { print $5 }') | grep "inet" | head -n 1 | awk '/inet/ {print $2}' | cut -d'/' -f1 We use ip route and awk to determine the name of our default network interface We use ip addr to get the…

Linux

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How to get your IP from a BASH script
How to get your IP from a BASH script
Linux

4 min read

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