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Sports Streaming Debacle
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve recently gotten back into the habit of following various sports. From not watching any sports for years, I now regularly watch: One major different in watching sports as compared to basically anything else is that it can be so painful to be able to watch exactly what you want. For…
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GitHub Container Registry and K3s
Considering we have paid GitHub accounts at work, I’ve started using the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) for storing our production-level container images. It was my first foray not doing either: There are limitations to how much GHCR can be used with our current plan, including 2 GB of overall storage and 10 GB of transfer…
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Groovy App Deployment
As I’ve mentioned before, I do a decent bit of Groovy development at work. Most of that code runs under the context of a SaaS application that I’ve mentioned before, so worrying about most things related to the execution environment isn’t relevant. Recently, though, I had a need to write a little app to sync…
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NFL Retro Bowl 25
I grew up watching football, was lucky enough to see a couple of Super Bowl wins for my home Steelers before moving away from the area, and then promptly losing interest since there were no streaming options at the time (and NFL Sunday Ticket was absurdly expensive, just like it still is today.) Now living…
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Removing Nodes From Open Source Puppet
At work we leverage Puppet for management of our infrastructure. While tools like Ansible seem to get a lot more love in the industry due to things like being based on Python (Puppet is Ruby-based) and using YAML for its definitions (Puppet has its own DSL, or Domain Specific Language), it works extremely well for…
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2024 Cincinnati Bengals Sideline Hats
The start of another NFL season is officially upon us. After scooping up tickets for a December game against my hometown Steelers at the very moment they released to sitting 2 rows back from the field for my first ever preseason game, I’m excited to see what the Bengals can do this year. There are…
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Why YouTube Is Better Than Udemy: Or How To Not Get Stuck In Tutorial Hell
Anyone who works in tech knows that there’s always more stuff to learn. It’s a rapidly evolving area, and whether it’s new programming languages, new frameworks, new deployment methods, etc. new things are cropping up all the time. I work at a fairly small company, so we often need to adjust the technology we use…
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Office 365: Clearing Mailbox Stops At 30 GB
Recently at work, we needed to make a shared account for some API credentials to a service. Not wanting to tie them to any individual user, I thought we could create a new proxy address, assign it to a shared mailbox that all relevant people had access to, and sign up with that. I quickly…
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Wishlist: Apple TV Gaming
As an Apple nerd, I regularly chat with my friends about things Apple is doing or that we wish Apple was doing. A recent thought of mine that I shared with the group seemed to resound with basically everyone, though: a gaming-centric version of the Apple TV. We’re already at a point where games in…
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Groovy FastStringService RuntimeException
One of the systems I use at work is a Java-based SaaS platform. This platform makes itself extensible by allowing for custom scripting to be done on it via Groovy, a scripting language that runs on the JVM. This is a fairly common setup that I’ve seen on a variety of platforms over the years,…