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2023

Digital Garden Released  microblog  2023-03-12 

2022

Amply Repaid  children, microblog  2022-12-12 

To Get a Cup of Coffee  working-from-home  2022-10-24 

Check Azure Devops Pr for Conventional Commit Title  azure-devops, powershell, devops, pre-commit, ci  2022-06-14 

The Pulumi Verdict So Far  pulumi, infrastructure-as-code  2  2022-04-12 

Using Randomization for Pulumi Kubernetes Resources  pulumi, golang, infrastructure-as-code  3  2  3  2022-03-24 

Remove Pending Operations From Pulumi State  microblog, infrastructure-as-code  1  2022-03-24 

Pulumi Secrets  pulumi, go  2022-03-11 

Night Owl for Slack  microblog, slack  2022-03-11 

Go Templates With Kubectl  microblog, go, kubernetes  2022-03-10 

Reflex for Quick Filewatching Commands  microblog  2022-03-04 

My Job  ramblings, microblog, dadlife  2022-03-02 

Pulumi Round 2  microblog, kubernetes, go  3  2022-01-28 

2021

Helm Is Like Hugo  microblog, kubernetes  1  1  1  2021-12-16 

Setup Sourcegraph Locally  microblog, golang  3  2021-12-02 

Docker Healthchecks for Spinning Up Local Stacks  microblog, docker  2  1  2021-11-23 

Thermal Throttling Mac Intel Woes  microblog  1  2021-11-15 

Keyboard Remapping in Goland  microblog, goland, golang  1  1  1  2021-11-04 

First Pass With Pulumi  aws, infrastructure-as-code, golang  1  1  2021-08-10 

SweetOps Slack Archive  microblog  2021-08-10 

My Goland Log  goland, golang  2021-07-19 

Steampipe Is Sql Magic  aws, golang  8  1  4  2021-07-16 

My First Vscode Extension Pack for Go  microblog, vscode, golang  8  1  2021-07-13 

Use Driftctl to Detect Infra Drift  microblog, terraform, infrastructure-as-code  4  2021-07-12 

How To Reduce Noise From Slack  slack  2  1  2021-07-07 

Luminar AI  software, ramblings, photograophy  2021-07-05 

Simplify Aws Developer Security With Leapp  security, aws, devops  19  3  10  2021-06-28 

Understanding The Basics of SQL Server Security  sql-server, security  2021-06-24 

Using Azure DevOps for Private Go Modules  azure-devops, golang, devops  1  2021-06-11 

GitPod User Feedback  microblog, docker  1  2021-06-11 

Log4 Brains Improves ADR Experience  microblog  1  2021-06-09 

Career Advice From a Drunk Dev on Reddit  blog  1  2021-06-03 

Highlight Problem Characters in Code  vscode  1  2021-05-31 

The Dark Side  microblog, humor  2  1  1  2021-05-26 

Value Local Art  ramblings, art, microblog  1  2021-05-24 

Dance Time  ramblings, art, family  2021-05-23 

The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services  microblog, aws, devops  3  2021-05-21 

Cloudflare Analytics for Your Jamstack Site  microblog, jamstack  2021-05-20 

Make Vscode Annoy Me When I Make a Typo  microblog, vscode  2021-05-19 

Open Markdown in Typora From Vscode  microblog  2021-05-19 

Cool Way to Compare Features in Note Apps  microblog, cool-sites  1  2021-05-18 

Azure Devops PR Automation Requires Generic Contribute  microblog, azure-devops, devops  2021-05-12 

Hackattic  microblog  2021-05-11 

Diagrams as Code  devops, python  7  3  1  2021-05-04 

Fix Terraform Provider Path in State  microblog, terraform  2021-03-10 

Azure Pipelines Template Iteration  azure-devops, powershell, devops  2021-03-05 

Git Workflow With Git Town  blog, git, devops  6  1  2021-02-23 

Incremental and Consistent  microblog  2021-02-13 

Working With Powershell Objects to Create Yaml  powershell, devops  2021-02-09 

Nativefier  microblog, cool-tools  2021-01-25 

Github Pages Now Supports Private Pages  microblog  2021-01-21 

Ensuring Profile Environment Variables Available to Intellij  microblog, macOS  2021-01-20 

Create an S3 Lifecycle Policy with PowerShell  aws, powershell, devops  2021-01-18 

Leverage Renovate for Easy Dependency Updates  microblog, terraform, devops  2021-01-14 

Remove Chrome Autocomplete Suggestion  microblog, poweruser  2021-01-09 

2020

Experiments With Go Arrays and Slices  powershell, golang  2020-12-30 

SQL Server Meets AWS Systems Manager  microblog, sql-server, site-reliability-engineering  2020-12-16 

Using AWS SDK With Go for EC2 AMI Metrics  aws, golang, metrics  2020-12-07 

Five  ramblings, dadlife, microblog  2020-12-03 

Leave Me Alone  cool-tools, microblog, noise  2020-12-01 

Filtering Results in Go  golang  1  2020-11-17 

Consider the Benefits of Powershell for Developer Workflows  cool-tools, golang, automation  5  4  2020-11-04 

Improving Local Development Workflow With Go Task  cool-tools, golang, automation  2020-11-03 

Unable To Resolve Provider AWS with Terraform Version 0.13.4  microblog, terraform, troubleshooting  2020-11-02 

Quick Start to Using Influxdb on Macos  influxdb, macOS  4  2020-10-30 

Set Theory Basics in the Eyes of 10 Year Old  microblog, dadlife  2020-10-14 

Ways to Improve Codespaces Local Docker Experience  microblog, docker, codespaces, visual-studio-code  2020-10-02 

Keep the Snippet Simple  microblog  2020-10-01 

Deadcells  gaming, ramblings  2020-09-24 

Improve Your Cloudwatch Debugging Experience With Cw  microblog, cool-tools, aws, golang  2020-09-16 

Delta Improves the Git Diff Experience  microblog, git, cool-tools  2020-09-15 

Terraform's Elegance in Abstraction  microblog, terraform  2020-09-09 

Rebuild Dash Index Due to Corrupted Index  microblog, aws, terraform, cool-tools  2020-09-01 

Incredible setup experience with gitpod  microblog, docker, kubernetes, terraform



 12  11  2020-08-27 

random-microsoft-teams-quirks-01  microblog, teams  2020-07-30 

How to Iterate Through A List of Objects with Terraform's for_each function  terraform  2020-07-29 

simple conditional flag in terraform  microblog, terraform  2020-07-28 

grave accent  microblog, til  2020-07-27 

Getting Started with Stream Analytics  azure  2020-07-24 

setting default open with on macOS  macOS  2020-07-24 

Assume a role with AWS PowerShell Tools  aws, powershell  2020-07-21 

Compiling a Custom Provider and Including for Terraform Cloud  golang, terraform  2020-07-14 

PowerShell has some functionality that can help in …  powershell  2020-07-13 

Windows users, nice little win for making the great git-town …  git, golang  2020-07-06 

Visual Studio Code has a pretty great way to browse through …  til, visual-studio-code  2020-06-29 

After using Windows versions of launchers that tried to …  macOS, alfred  2020-06-24 

Azure Data Studio SQL Notebook for Diagnostic Queries  dbatools, powershell, cool-tools, azure-data-studio, sql-server  2020-06-24 

My Experience Switching To A Macbook Pro From Windows  devops, apple, macOS  2020-06-18 

Here’s a cool way to visualize runspaces and how they work …  powershell, snippets  2020-06-17 

Set an environment variable export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 to …  til, docker  2020-06-10 

brew install micro resulted in my finding what I think will …  til, cool-tools  2020-06-05 

add dev container configuration for Go project in Visual …  til, golang, docker, sql-server  2020-06-04 

What a cool website… Music For Programming  2020-06-04 

The GitHub logo is an octopus with ears… not a cat. Mind …  til, github  2020-06-02 

Quickly install Git Town using bash in Ubuntu container with …  til, shell, linux  2020-06-02 

Iterm2 is just beautiful. What a fantastic tool with so many …  macOS  2020-05-29 

Migrating from Windows 10 to macOS for professional use this …  ansible, macOS, apple  2020-05-19 

Digging the guitar tone in this. Need to break out my Line6 …  music  2020-05-17 

✔ Animated a fuzzy tickle creature. ✔ Rescue a bird stuck in …  work-from-home  2020-05-15 

Jedi: Fallen Order has the most linear gameplay I’ve done in …  gaming  2020-05-13 

Kept getting an error Incorrect syntax near the keyword …  sql-server, aws, serverless  2020-05-07 

GitHub Codespaces was announced today. I’ve been a believer …  til  2020-05-07 

Finally got atomic algolia to work in CICD for my hugo blog. …  blogging  2020-05-05 

If you want to simplify keeping up with github releases …  slack  2020-05-05 

Got some use out of the new beta plugins for netlify. I …  2020-04-30 

Using Pester to Improve Operational Tasks  devops, testing  2020-04-20 

Improved Windows Terminal Setup  cool-tools, git, powershell  2020-04-20 

A Smattering of Thoughts About Applying Site Reliability Engineering principles  agile, working-smart, site-reliability-engineering, devops  2020-04-05 

Quickly Create Github Release via Cli  git, devops, automation, golang  2020-02-26 

Asciidoc Distributed Docs as Code  devops, docs-as-code  2020-02-14 

Running SQL Server in Docker  devops, docker, sql-server, dbatools  2020-01-16 

2019

Getting Started With Python For Data Exploration  devops, sql-server, python, data-visualization, dbatools  2019-11-19 

Improving the Quality of Your Automation Logging with Cowsay  cli, cool-tools, devops  2019-11-11 

Getting Started With Terraform  infrastructure-as-code, devops, terraform  2019-11-07 

You know you are a dad when you start looking at a minivan …  family, dad-life  2019-09-27 

I have a new term for the wait my daughter eats food. …  family  2019-09-26 

You know you probably reserved the wrong hotel when you …  travel, family  2019-09-26 

Painless Synchronization of Azure Blob Storage with AWS S3  aws, devops, azure  2019-07-16 

AWS SSM PowerShell Script Automation  powershell, devops, aws  2019-07-04 

Bump nuspec file version with powershell  chocolatey, azuredevops, devops, powershell  2019-06-17 

Leverage AWS System Manager Sessions  aws, devops  2019-06-10 

I’d read about Terraform 0.12 and thought it was much …  devops, terraform  2019-05-31 

Kids learn so quick. It’s amazing how fast my son has picked …  dadlife, origami  2019-05-17 

Really enjoying my experience with Terraform from the last …  terraform, devops  2019-05-17 

Downloading a Visual Studio Code vsix extension and then …  til  2019-05-16 

Finally upgraded my graphics card and hardrive. EVGA RTX …  2019-04-25 

Working smart: how great performers do less work This book …  2019-04-19 

This infernal keyboard lag is killing me. I’m guessing it’s …  ramblings  2019-04-18 

Today I learned how to create a microblog / microblogs …  til, hugo  2019-04-17 

Debugging Type Binding in PowerShell  powershell, deep-dive  2019-03-11 

Migrating From Hipchat To Slack  powershell  2019-02-07 

SQL Server Database Experimentation Assistant - How to Run a Capture  sql-server, performance-tuning, dbatools  2019-02-07 

2018

Dedupe Google Drive with RClone  ramblings  4  1  1  2018-08-19 

NTFS Compression and SQL Server Do Not Play Well Together  sql-server, powershell  2018-08-08 

Deleting a Directory That Has a Trailing Space Shouldn't Be This Hard  powershell  2018-07-23 

SQL .NET Requirements  sql-server  2018-03-30 

Git Cracking  cool-tools, git  2018-03-29 

Migration To Jekyll  jekyll  2018-03-18 

2017

Time With Family - Thanksgiving  family, ramblings  2017-12-31 

Delight in the Little Moments  ramblings, videography, family, follower-of-Jesus  2017-11-10 

Welcome to the World Little Ella  family, photography, follower-of-Jesus, ramblings  2017-09-08 

Recovery is a Marathon, Not a Sprint - Hurricane Harvey  ramblings, flood, follower-of-Jesus  2017-09-03 

A Waterlogged Texan Reporting In from Northpoint Tomball  ramblings, family, follower-of-Jesus  2017-08-29 

A Not-So Waterlogged Texan - Tuesday  ramblings, flood  2017-08-29 

Ultrawide Monitor - Samsung CF971 - First impressions  gear, ramblings  2017-08-16 

Fixing VirtualBox Only Showing 32bit Windows OS Options  troubleshooting, virtualization, ramblings  2017-08-11 

Exploring SQL Server With Powershell And SMO Basics  sql-server, powershell, smo, dbatools  2  2017-08-09 

Capturing Perfmon Counters With Telegraf  sql-server, monitoring, grafana, influxdb, cool-tools, powershell  2017-08-08 

InfluxDB and Annotations  time-series, powershell, influxdb, monitoring, sql-server, cool-tools  2017-08-07 

Dataedo - First Look  sql-server, cool-tools  2017-08-07 

Spotify vs Google Play  music, ramblings  2017-08-05 

ANTS Performance Profiler for the SQL Server Dev  sql-server, cool-tools, performance-tuning, redgate, powershell  2017-07-21 

Update SSMS With PS1  sql-server, powershell, cool-tools  2017-07-03 

External Tool VSCODE called from SQL Management Studio  sql-server, text-manipulation, vscode, cool-tools  2017-06-26 

Best Practices: Defining Explicit Length for Varchar/Nvarchar  sql-server  2017-06-07 

Add User To Admin Group on Machine  powershell  2017-06-07 

Powershell Module Improvements for SQL Server in 2017  powershell, sql-server, dbatools  2017-05-31 

Running InfluxDB as a service in Windows  influxdb, powershell, configuration, sql-server  2017-05-24 

Setting Up InfluxDb, Chronograf, and Grafana for the SqlServer Dev  sql-server, influxdb, performance-tuning, powershell, cool-tools  2017-05-17 

Automate Windows Updates for Development  powershell, sql-server  2017-05-10 

Programming Fonts For The Newb  2017-05-08 

TFS Custom Task - Service Actions (for TFS 2015 Update 2.1 or before)  tfs, build-tasks, powershell  2017-03-07 

Red Gate SQL Clone (1) - Initial Setup  redgate, sql-server  2017-02-27 

Life Hack: When you need a mouse pad  lifehack, ramblings  2017-02-24 

Track Creation of Databases  sql-server  2017-02-18 

SSMS 2016 - Object Explorer Read Uncommitted  sql-server  2017-02-18 

Redgate SQL Data Compare & Devart DBForge Data Compare  sql-server  2017-02-18 

Quick Way to Run Powershell Tasks in Parallel  powershell, sql-server  2017-02-18 

Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification  bad-idea, sql-server  2017-01-23 

2016

ManicTime - Timetracking Automation Done Right  ramblings, cool-tools  2016-12-09 

Dynamically Set Powershell Variables from json  powershell, sql-server  2016-12-05 

The Traditional Birthday Song Is Terrible  music, rambling, ramblings, music  2016-12-03 

Scan folder of dlls to identify x86 or x64 compiled assemblies  powershell  2016-11-22 

Attaching Database Using SMO & Powershell  automation, powershell, sql-server  2016-11-18 

Parallel Powershell for Running SQL  powershell, sql-server  2016-11-16 

Get Backup History for All Databases in Server  sql-server  2016-11-01 

Pizzicato Pizza  music, ramblings  2016-10-29 

Data Compare on Temporal Tables  cool-tools, redgate, sql-server  2016-10-28 

Fixing Untrusted Foreign Key or Check Constraint  sql-server  2016-10-22 

An Internet With Less Ads - Adguard  ramblings, cool-tools  2  2  2016-10-20 

Easy SQL Maintenance with Minionware  powershell, sql-server, dbatools  2016-10-18 

Cannot Generate SSPI Context  sql-server, mysteries  2016-10-17 

Centralized Management Server 101  sql-server  2016-10-16 

DAW Dive 02 - BFD3 - Drumming for the Rest of Us  daw, music, ramblings, cool-tools  2016-10-11 

Migrating Database Collation - The Red Gate Way  redgate, sql-server, cool-tools  2016-10-10 

Syncovery & Arq - Syncing & Backup  cool-tools, ramblings  2016-10-09 

Powershell ISE: Updating Theme  powershell, cool-tools  2016-10-09 

Fixing non-deterministic error when creating indexed view  sql-server  2016-10-09 

SQL 2016 - Configuration Manager Not Showing in Start Menu  sql-server  2016-09-21 

DAW Dive 1 - Getting Started - Studio One 3  music, ramblings, cool-tools  2016-09-20 

Setting DBCC 1222 on startup  sql-configuration, sql-server  2016-09-19 

Ableton Live & Lemur Setup (From a Windows User)  music, ramblings, cool-tools  2016-09-17 

Lack for Nothing  music, ramblings, worship, follower-of-Jesus  2016-09-14 

Remote Desktop Workflow Improvements  cool-tools, sql-server, ramblings  2016-08-29 

SSMS - Connection Color with SQL Prompt & SSMSBoost  cool-tools, redgate, sql-server  2016-08-23 

SQL 2016 - Brief Overview on some new features  sql-server  2016-08-19 

Install ReadyRoll via Command Line  cool-tool, redgate, sql-server  2016-08-18 

Does sp_rename on a column preserve the ms_description?  sql-server  2016-08-15 

Regex With SQL Server - SQLSharp  regex, sql-server, cool-tools  2016-08-11 

Improvements with SSMS 2016  sql-server  2016-07-12 

Glasswire: (Giveaway Included) Networking Monitoring even a caveman could  cool-tools, sql-server  2016-07-01 

SQL Compare 12: Initial Look  cool-tools, sql-server  2016-06-26 

SSMS Tools Pack - A Handy Tool for generating CRUD  cool-tools, sql-server  2016-06-17 

OmniCompare: A free tool to compare SQL Instances  cool-tools, sql-server  2016-06-14 

Continual Deployment of Visual Studio SqlProj  sql-server, cool-tools  2016-05-16 

The Mysterious Black Box of R - For the SQL Server Guy  sql-server  2016-05-15 

Red Gate Dependency Tracker - Making Databases Into Moving Art  cool-tools, photography, sql-server  2016-04-28 

Google Search Only Results from the last year  ramblings  2016-04-27 

Automating SSMS 2016 Updates & Install  automation, cool-tools, sql-server  2016-04-27 

Cool Tools: Powershell ISE-Steroids  cool-tools, powershell, sql-server  2016-04-14 

Failed to Initialize SQL Agent Log... not worthy  sql-server  2016-04-01 

TFS Work-Item Fancy Filtering  sql-server, tfs, ramblings  2016-03-18 

SQL 2012 SP3 and entity framework conflict  entity-framework, sql-server  2016-03-18 

Previewing the new SSRS 2016 portal  sql-server, ssrs  2016-03-18 

Failover all databases to other server  sql-server  2016-03-18 

Calculating Some Max Mirror Stats  sql-server  2016-03-18 

Easy way to test log shipping or availability groups setup  sql-server  2016-01-29 

Diff All Files - Reviewing Changesets Quickly  coding, cool-tools, sql-server  2016-01-25 

Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 3)  sql-server  2016-01-20 

Seeker & Servant: Fantastic Music with incredible dynamics  ramblings, music  2016-01-20 

Verifying Instant File Initialization  sql-server  2016-01-13 

Transaction Logging & Recovery (part 2)  sql-server  2016-01-08 

Transaction Logging & Recovery (101)  sql-server  2016-01-05 

2015

Model needs exclusive lock  sql-server  2015-12-15 

Documenting Your Database with Diagrams  sql-server, cool-tools  2015-12-09 

Best Tools for Taking Notes In Development  sql-server, cool-tools  2015-10-14 

Dynamic SQL & Quotename  sql-server  2015-09-23 

XML Attribute VS Element Assignment when working with SQL  sql-server  2015-09-21 

Split personality text editing in SSMS with Sublime Text 3  sql-server, cool-tools  2015-09-14 

Multi-Cursor Editing SQL feels like the movie Inception just became real  sql-server  2015-09-10 

Brentozar''s Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included  sql-server  2015-08-27 

Monitoring SQL Server on a budget  sql-server  2015-08-18 

Stranger Danger... The need for trust with constraints  sql-server  2015-08-13 

Red Gate SQL Source Control v4 offers schema locks  sql-server, redgate, cool-tools  2015-08-12 

Using Qure Profiler To Benchmark Tuning Progress  sql-server  2015-08-10 

SET NOEXEC is my new friend  sql-server  2015-08-07 

Running very large scripts is not a strong area for SSMS  sql-server  2015-08-05 

Database Stuck in Single-User Mode Due to Botched Restore  sql-server  2015-07-28 

What was I thinking? Deleting myself from localdb?  sql-server  2015-07-13 

Some simple examples of querying xml with sql  sql-server  2015-06-24 

Enabling Instant File Initialization  sql-server  2015-05-22 

Upgrade from SQL 2014 Evaluation to Developer Edition  sql-server  2015-05-04 

Utilizing the power of table parameters to reduce IO, improve performance, decrease pollution, and achieve world peace...  sql-server, deep-dive  2015-04-30 

SQL Sentry Pro Explorer is worth it...  sql-server, performance-tuning  2015-04-28 

Restoring a database that doesn't exist  sql-server  2015-04-28 

Statistics Parsing  sql-server  2015-01-21 

Dev Tools: FARR2 Launching groups of files or apps at once  cool-tools  2015-01-16 

Dev Tools: The File Searcher/Launcher to rule them all  sql-server  2015-01-13 

Case of the Mondays... causing me to randomly redefine the Scope of Global  sql-server  2015-01-05 

2014

Dev Tools: XYplorer (review 1) - Catalog  cool-tools, ramblings  2014-12-24 

OR pattern causing indexing scans in parameter based queries  sql-server  2014-12-11 

Get Information on Current Traces Running  sql-server  2014-12-02 

Generate Random Date With Starting Point  sql-server  2014-08-12 

Snippet Alert: Useful dates (eom, bom, etc)  sql-server  2014-08-11 

Finding Groups - Consecutive Months  sql-server  2014-05-19 

Eliminate Overlapping Dates  sql-server  2014-05-19 

Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man  sql-server  2014-02-11 

2013

Renaming all references inside stored procedures and functions can be migraine worthy without a little help...  sql-server  2013-08-13 

Shortcut to reference examples, syntax, and definitions straight from SSMS  sql-server  2013-07-24 

Check Constraints can help enforce the all or nothing approach when it comes  sql-server  2013-07-18 

SSMS 2012 Extender for the times you want some organization to the random pile  sql-server, cool-tools  2013-07-16 

TSQL Snippet for viewing basic info on database principals and their permissions  sql-server  2013-05-31 

A moment of void in the cranium reveals a recursive computed column with an  sql-server  2013-05-30 

View computed columns in database  sql-server  2013-05-22 

On how to Googlify your SQL statements for future searching  sql-server, cool-tools  2013-05-22 

Get synonym definitions for all databases in server  sql-server  2013-05-21 

Calculating the next beginning of month and the current end of month  sql-server  2013-05-01 

Installing SSMS 2012 all by it's lonesome  sql-server  2013-04-30 

snippet designate a certain time of the day in getdate()  sql-server  2013-04-23 

Native SSMS a second class citizen no longer...  sql-server, cool-tools  2013-04-22 

dynamic sql and a char crash  sql-server  2013-04-18 

How to default SSRS date parameters to the first and last day of the the previous month  sql-server  2013-04-17