25 September 2023

The consequences of casually implementing changes in a work process with a "let's just try it" mindset. Discerning changes which are measurably positive or widely accepted by your team.

22 February 2023

A techinque to avoid prematurely optimizing your code and architecture.

29 January 2023

Allow employees to get emergency elevated credentials safely and accountably

14 January 2023

There are tons of Grafana and Helm tutorials out there, but I could not find any that did not use the default option of a Kubernetes persistent volume to store Grafana's data. It wasn't difficult, but wanted to document it here for the next person.

26 October 2022

k9s broke and only showing list of contexts. Turned out to be old EKS KUBECONFIG was the culprit

22 March 2020

Our brush with staph scalded skin syndrome during a pandemic.

10 February 2020

Installing Helm 2 into a namespace other than kube-system can be a little tricky to get right. Learn how to do it quickly and easily with an example.

14 April 2016

Does your USB Audio devices sometimes just cut out and stop working causing things like Spotify and YouTube videos to stop playing completely?

21 March 2016

A documentary about HQCC where I used to be a Board Member

09 March 2016

Easy way to display a Django template variable or show a default value.

01 March 2016

If you've been using Wagtail for awhile, this is an easy problem to run into but a hard one to find the solution to. TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string at related = getattr(model, self.relation_name).rel

22 January 2016

Kansas Legislature Website is unusable in Chrome. A browser with over 50% of marketshare.

29 November 2015

Frank discusses the specific steps he used to get ready to work for himself. Not necessarily a plan, but more a history of what worked for him.

16 September 2015

Working on a lot of Sphinx documentation? This PyPI module helps auto-rebuild your docs and includes livereload so you can more quickly see your changes.

13 September 2015

Suicide and other mental health problems are higher in tech workers than many other fields, yet we seem to recognize and do less than most professions.

04 December 2014

How to fix getting hash sum mismatch error when using apt-get

10 November 2014

Why carbon-cache having a 'FATAL start' with supervisor, isn't really an error.

30 April 2014

Interview with Frank Wiles, CEO - Grove.io on CrazyEngineers

10 April 2014

Handy shell tip for clearing the display without losing the current command you're typing.

02 April 2014

Quick HOWTO on setting up Mailgun with SaltStack

15 January 2014

Rant on how bad our government contracts have gotten.

04 November 2013

Using multiple pip requirements files with SaltStack

07 May 2013

A super easy mistake to make when working with a crontab file