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# Glue Code
>Journal, Blog, Brain Dump, etc
>
>Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
[About][1] | [Links][36] | [RSS][39] | [Quotes][40]
---
## 2025
- 2025-04-16 [Systems Self-Defense][44] -- Part 1 of building
applications that can always run at maximum speed.
- 2025-03-18 [Consequences of Deviance][43] -- Why everyone seems rude
and we aren't handling it.
- 2025-03-03 [Wealth, Capitalism, and The Economy][42] -- The one time
"quit acting like a child" is a valid criticism.
- 2025-02-26 [Switching to FreeBSD][41] -- Moving to FreeBSD.
- 2025-01-15 [Building Reliably][38] -- Maximum reliability and ease of
maintenance over compactness/cleverness.
## 2024
- 2024-11-08 [Hardware details][37] -- Updates as promised on the new
server.
- 2024-11-06 [November sucks][35] -- Get politcally active.
## 2023
- 2023-11-29 [New hardware][34] -- Scaling up personal machines.
## 2022
- 2022-05-13 [Reboot][33] --- Restarting the journal after years of silence.
## 2018
- 2018-07-22 [The pace of change][32] --- Remarks on social, legal, and
technological change.
- 2018-03-16 [Follow up RE: Google][31] --- Further explanation on [my rage-quit
of Google.][29]
- 2018-02-27 [Google is terrible][29] --- Explanation for why I'm against
Google now, despite my earlier support
## 2017
- 2017-11-02 [Docker Shenanigans][28] --- Misbehaving with docker
- 2017-11-02 [Docker Builder Pattern][27] --- Using the builder pattern to make
smaller images
- 2017-10-24 [Learning Rust][26] --- Learning Rust after developing a while in
Go
- 2017-09-07 [Why clean up git branches][25] --- What happens when git can't
keep up with the number of objects in a repository
- 2017-08-22 [Ignorance costs us everything][24] --- Remarks on lessons
forgotten about non-technical contributions
- 2017-08-15 [It's all politics][23] --- Thoughts on the Alt-Right movement and
Charlottesville, VA
- 2017-08-03 [Your Ops team is dying][22] --- Doing a little happy dance while
the industry evolves
- 2017-08-01 [Google Sites][21] --- Migrating to Google Sites
- 2017-07-24 [Gophercon 2017 and other stuff][20] --- Some links and a few quick
notes
- 2017-07-10 [Scuba Certification][19] --- I'm now a Certified Open Water diver!
- 2017-06-14 [Chromebook has arrived][18] --- it's here!
- 2017-06-13 [Final prep for Chromebook][17] --- Time to clear out the cobwebs!
- 2017-05-17 [Whole30 rant][16] --- Gotta get something off my chest...
- 2017-05-16 [Blog on a diet][15] --- Recent review of my eternal
experimentation with this website.
- 2017-04-04 [Life in Chrome (Part 2)][14] --- A follow-up to my original [Life
in Chrome][12] post.
- 2017-03-30 [Why encrypting everything on the internet makes sense][30] --- A
short opinion piece explaining the need for encryption when it comes to the
internet.
- 2017-03-23 [Ongoing encryption efforts][13] --- What it says on the tin.
- 2017-03-07 [Life in Chrome][12] --- What happens when you work entirely within
in a browser?
- 2017-03-07 [Get on the Upgrade Treadmill][11] --- Lessons learned about timely
upgrades and procedures for doing so.
- 2017-03-04 [Shifting blogging engines][10] --- My statements about moving this
blog between Hugo, Wordpress, Blogger, and Ghost.
- 2017-03-04 [Code Less][9] --- Suggestions on reducing code and layers of
abstraction.
## 2016
- 2016-08-31 [Redefining Stability][8] --- Stability comes with various
assumptions, so let's work on the definitions.
- 2016-08-29 [Gitlab Follow-up][7] --- Follow-up on the [GitlabCI post][6].
- 2016-08-16 [Gitlab and GitlabCI][6] --- Introduction of Gitlab to my company
and comparison with other solutions.
- 2016-03-16 [Tech Choices and Pitfalls for DevOps][5] --- List of potential
issues around choices of technology and how they are applied, with a focus
on DevOps purposes.
## 2015
- 2015-12-18 [Software Boundaries][4] --- A rant about working with what you
have instead of complaining about what the thing isn't.
- 2015-12-14 [Forget NAT; Use Firewalls][3] --- An explanation as to why NAT and
related designs are unnecessary in today's internet.
- 2015-12-10 [Why VPN in Google Cloud Platform is superfluous][2] --- Why a
site-to-site VPN doesn't make sense when operating in environments like
Google Cloud.
[1]:About.html
[2]:posts/2015/why-vpn-is-superfluous.html
[3]:posts/2015/no-nat-use-firewalls.html
[4]:posts/2015/software-has-boundaries.html
[5]:posts/2016/tech-choices-pitfalls-devops.html
[6]:posts/2016/gitlab-and-gitlabci.html
[7]:posts/2016/gitlab-follow-up.html
[8]:posts/2016/redefining-stability.html
[9]:posts/2017/code-less.html
[10]:posts/2017/shift-blogging-engines.html
[11]:posts/2017/upgrade-treadmill.html
[12]:posts/2017/life-in-chrome.html
[13]:posts/2017/ongoing-encryption-efforts.html
[14]:posts/2017/life-in-chrome-part2.html
[15]:posts/2017/blog-on-a-diet.html
[16]:posts/2017/whole30-rant.html
[17]:posts/2017/chromebook-prep.html
[18]:posts/2017/chromebook-has-arrived.html
[19]:posts/2017/padi-scuba-cert.html
[20]:posts/2017/gophercon-and-stuff.html
[21]:posts/2017/google-sites.html
[22]:posts/2017/your-ops-team-is-dying.html
[23]:posts/2017/its-all-politics.html
[24]:posts/2017/ignorance-costs-us-everything.html
[25]:posts/2017/why-clean-up-git-branches.html
[26]:posts/2017/learning-rust.html
[27]:posts/2017/docker-builder-pattern.html
[28]:posts/2017/docker-shenanigans.html
[29]:posts/2018/google-is-terrible.html
[30]:posts/2017/encrypt-everything.html
[31]:posts/2018/google-follow-up.html
[32]:posts/2018/pace-of-change.html
[33]:posts/2022/reboot.html
[34]:posts/2023/newhardware.html
[35]:posts/2024/november.html
[36]:links.html
[37]:posts/2024/tech-updates.html
[38]:posts/2025/bulletproof.html
[39]:rss.xml
[40]:ancillary/quotes.html
[41]:posts/2025/freebsd.html
[42]:posts/2025/recession-wealth.html
[43]:posts/2025/pushing-the-limits.html
[44]:posts/2025/systems-self-defense.html
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