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2023

Chunnel, Train, and Pubs travel 2023-12-02

Easiest Way to Run Local Ai microblog, ai 2023-12-01

St Michel to Versailles 2023-11-27

Differences in France To My Expectations microblog, travel 2023-11-20

Parisian Rain, Gluten Free Grains, and Basilica Lanes travel, family, dadlife 2023-11-20

Potato Chips Taste Better in France microblog, travel 2023-11-19

First Week in Paris blog, travel, family 2023-11-14

Ventilation Systems microblog, travel 2023-11-09

An Unexpected Supporter of the Paris Sanitation System travel, dadlife, microblog 2023-11-08

New York - First Visit travel, photography 2023-11-06

Region & Language Defaults microblog, travel 2023-11-06

Leveled Up With Truck Driving microblog 2023-10-20

Alexa Customization microblog 2023-06-11

Brain Noodles microblog 2023-06-08

How Many Commits Did You Make in Last Month microblog, openai, shell 2023-05-03

Refined Github microblog, cool-tools 2023-04-19

O'Reilly microblog 2023-04-19

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 2022-04-12

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

Remove Pending Operations From Pulumi State microblog, infrastructure-as-code 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 2022-01-28

2021

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

Setup Sourcegraph Locally microblog, golang 2021-12-02

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

Thermal Throttling Mac Intel Woes microblog 2021-11-15

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

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

SweetOps Slack Archive microblog 2021-08-10

My Goland Log goland, golang 2021-07-19

Steampipe Is Sql Magic aws, golang 2021-07-16

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

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

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

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

Simplify Aws Developer Security With Leapp security, aws, devops 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 2021-06-11

GitPod User Feedback microblog, docker 2021-06-11

Log4 Brains Improves ADR Experience microblog 2021-06-09

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

Highlight Problem Characters in Code vscode 2021-05-31

The Dark Side microblog, humor 2021-05-26

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

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

The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services microblog, aws, devops 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 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 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 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 2020-11-17

Consider the Benefits of Powershell for Developer Workflows cool-tools, golang, automation 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 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

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 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 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 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