Photography Photos from 2016 This year I went a little nuts. I have 2600 files, some are videos and this is the year I discovered why you want to shoot raw photos. So most of my photos
Blogging S.O.S. What do you do when you feel like your body is pitted against yourself? How do you lower the natural fear of death to be able to clearly interpret telephoned messages from your
Blogging Leadership If there is a particular power I crave the most it is leadership. Leadership in my opinion isn't a title that you can be assigned. It is more of a state of being.
Programming Graphql Directives For the past few weeks I have been diving more and more into graphql. One of the things I learned about was graphql directives. The very first thing I thought of once I
Photography Photos from 2015 The biggest event that I had the chance to photograph was the blood moon. I was a little disappointed with my results. Being the first time that I had ever tried to take
Blogging Fighting in the dark Career progression is something that I've never really had an issue with. I've been out of college for 6-ish years running around - hopefully - in a semi-coherent way. Career advancement for me
Wake on LAN with Ubiquiti I've recently needed to move my computer into a different room other than my office for a while. And while I have it in this room, I'd like it to not be on
Photography 1000 Worded Photography I remember when I was kid I would look at books or magazines of national geographic and see pictures of animals or landscapes. Or more recently looking at sites like unsplash and 500px
Blogging National chocolate chip cookie day Today is national chocolate chip cookie day. Not sure which nation it is for. If I were to guess, it's probably the US. I just finished watching the movie Tolkien and it got
Programming Pop!_OS on Hyper V I've briefly scoured the internet for a solution for this and haven't found any. With any regard to any credit to my name, I figured I would give this a go and provide
Blogging Chasing Down-Earthers I don't know exactly when I decided this, but there was a character trait that I have very much desired for myself. You could even say I've been pretty envious of. Which when
Projects Mission: dot files Since I began working, I've had people I worked with talk about their development environment and how they have aimed to make their process of picking up a user story and getting it
Blogging Disruptive Religion There are several reasons I don't like talking about this topic and I wanted to share some of those reasons...How do people know this church is wrong when religion is based on faith? People justify things happening because it's the way it should be. Suicide by religion. Forcing religion on others...
Blogging Love Yourself How did we ever come to decide that a life is worth something? What about self worth? If we have all come to an understanding that everyone else is valued. Life is valued. Why is it so hard for a lot of people to value themselves?
AngularJs Angular 1 infinite ng-click Never thought I would be back here talking about angular. But here we are nonetheless. For the last year I have been in charge of a project that has been the literal definition
Blogging Profound mental illness Imagine you and a few friends have decided to go out to lunch...As you are listening to something your friend had said, your heart feels like it hacked up the last thing you ate... You cough. It's becoming harder to breath. You're heart must have stopped...
hapijs Hapi 17+ & Joi Verbose Error Messages With Hapi Version 17 they disabled sending verbose Joi messages back to the client. They said in certain cases with Joi returning the user input, it can potentially create XSS attacks. So they
babeljs [email protected] and regeneratorRuntime issues for Node 4 and how to fix them I had a logging tool I built for us to start measuring metrics with logs. One of the things that I needed to do was support down to Node 4. Sadly that means
Blogging Where is Your Confidence Level? I was recently asked if I had ever been confident? Kind of a rude thing to ask, but often times these types of questions slap you in the face and make you do
OS X Upgrading Perforce p4merge on Mac OS X Mojave I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Mojave and have been enjoying it quite a bit. Well until I had an issue with `git mergetool`. p4merge stopped working with git. When I would
Blogging I am a MAN! 👨 I don't cry! 😠Two weeks ago, I got back from my son's 2 week celebration of him being born at the pediatrics office. To celebrate, we decided that given some of the benefits, we were going
Blogging Your privacy is at risk. Why does it matter? How would you like to live in a house of glass? Someone walks down the street and peers into your home while you are taking a shower, contributing to the sewer system or
Blogging M & M's and Rainbows I have been having a hard time trying to force myself to blog about either my personal life or technology. And here I am going to write another draft probably never to be
Programming Eslint-Watch It's been awhile since I have posted anything on my blog. I felt like with the recent news of Eslint-Watch jumping up to 40,000 downloads a month it might be time to
Blogging Are You Receiving Me?! For me, In-the-moment communication is like shoving a bunch of bread in your mouth, then being told to swallow what you've got in your mouth and talk at the same time. I could
