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World's best Taco Bell is now a Cantina
The best Taco Bell in the world just got better
Getting Started with Hugo and Micropub
I was really interested in doing this, but ended up moving away from Hugo and instead building my site on top of Python/Django. I still really like a lot of these ideas and have taken a lot of inspiration on what Jamie is doing and built it into my own site.
Avoid Burnout Before Youβre Already Burned Out
Burnout seems to be a fact of life if you are working as a software engineer. I have been burned out before and it sucks. The biggest thing for me was making sure I take time for myself and make sure I do something I enjoy like photography or watching This Old House.
Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
Kubernetes Chaos Engineering
This article helped troubleshoot some hard to replicate issues I had in Kubernetes during deployments/scaling events.
Getting Every Microsecond Out of uWSGI
Good tips for testing performance of uWSGI with common options I always forget about.
Fixing random AWS ALB 502 Bad Gateways with uwsgi
This articled helped me figure out why I was getting random 502 errors when using uWSGI behind an AWS ALB.
90 days of AWS EKS in Production
Great findings in here for running Kubernetes using AWS EKS. I have taken a lot of these findings and used them in my setup of EKS using Terraform.
Adobe Lightroom Workflow
My current solution (all personal photography) is that I have one large Lightroom catalog. I have everything from 2015-2018. Everything is organized by year/month-day shortname. For special things like multi-day vacations they get merged into a single folder. I have the last 3-6 months of raw files saved inside of my local Dropbox folder for some basic backups and everything older gets moved to my Synology NAS.
I use a couple different Lightroom Hard drive publishing services.