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DevOps Book Reviews
March 02, 2024
After a few years of light pressure and persistent encouragement from a trusted mentor, I shifted my focus to the realm of DevOps. I was...
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Dynamically Add Assets to Public Folder in Ruby on Rails Application
January 04, 2024
I wanted site admins for my Ruby on Rails application to be able to upload site assets such as logos and favicons in the GUI....
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LEGO Mechanical Keyboard Build
November 12, 2023
The newest edition to my mechanical keyboard family started out as a Full Kit Adam from the KBDcraft store. The core hardware is solid. The...
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Book Review: Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
August 04, 2023
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser My rating: 5 of 5 stars As a child I loved the Little...
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The Battle of the 3D-Printed Mechanical Keyboards
April 29, 2023
I printed and built three popular mechanical keyboard designs from thingiverse. While they look fantastic and I enjoyed putting them together, none quite make the...
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Embedded Tables for ActionText
February 18, 2023
Ruby on Rails’ ActionText is a simple, quick, and easy way to add rich text content to your models. Unfortunately, the Trix editor lacks an...
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3D Printer Upgrade: Original Prusa i3 MK3S
July 04, 2022
When the heated bed of my first 3d printer stopped working, it was the tiny push I needed to upgrade to an Original Prusa i3...
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Free Little Libraries
June 24, 2022
Years ago we purchased an old Chicago Tribune newspaper stand with the intention of transforming it into a robot themed Free Little Library. Life got...
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Hi-Five-Pi: Raspberry Pi Cluster Part 3 – Basic Job Submission with Slurm
September 14, 2021
Also see Hi-Five-Pi: Raspberry Pi Cluster Part 1 – Initial Hardware/Software Setup Hi-Five-Pi: Raspberry Pi Cluster Part 2 – Shared Users and Maintenance Software In...