While I haven't written about it here yet, much of my past year has been spent learning and writing Elixir. As I have started to delve beyond surface-level language features I have found topics that are not discussed to my satisfaction (or at least in words that I
Docuie allows you to create documentation projects as well as pages and headings to create a hierarchy for your users.
While a number of other payment processors have sprung up in recent years, Paypal continues to remain one of the de facto standards because of its relative prevalence and its ability to tokenize personal information. Many users have come to prefer Paypal for websites and services that may not have
Introduction One of my all time favorite topics is the brain, but more specifically, how the brain's operation results in the human condition. Recently I have been reading about the dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious mind. The most interesting of which, I think, is a study conducted
I have been fortunate in that I made it through 26 years of life before I lost somebody very close to me. This streak ended yesterday, May 23rd, 2017 when my grandmother passed in her sleep. Death is not something I had spent a great deal of time pondering before
Recently, I have spent a great deal of time pondering the nature of what we call gut feelings. Personally, many of my decisions have been primarily guided by what I would describe as a gut feeling - but what is a gut feeling really? I recently spoke to a woman
It is that time of year again, time to reflect on what has happened over the past year, where I succeeded and where I failed, and more importantly set goals for the coming year. I, like many of you, had a pretty rough year so I am quite pleased to
Another year is coming to an end, thankfully. Like most others, I have had a rather dreadful year, bidding 2016 farewell will be quite satisfying. The end of the year always makes me reflect on how things went over the course of the year. This year I have been thinking
I mentioned in my other post about some events that fundamentally changed my view on the world. Here, I wanted to dive into one event in particular, the break in I experienced in early August this year. Not long after I moved from Texas to Minnesota to be with my
Every now and again you encounter a series of events that fundamentally changes the way you view the world. For me, the past few months have held a number of events that have definitely change my view substantially. Looking back, I've realized that I placed a great deal
I have learned so much about the startup life over the past couple years. I worked with a larger startup, a smaller one, and several that I can call my own. I learned how funding works, how marketing works, how sales happen (how sales don't happen), how to
After starting Bitkumo I quickly came to the realization that hosted status pages were far too expensive for what they were. The main players right now want upwards of $30-40 per month for what is mostly a static website. This is far too much for a company that is just
I always seem to find myself reflecting upon the year during the holidays - where I was this time last year and where I am now. This year has been pretty good to me overall. I've gone on several adventures, moved to Texas, gotten a new job, started
Coming from Python, Node.js quickly blew my mind with the whole concept of asychronous stuff. I don't think I actually understood managing things asynchronously for a few months after I started writing Javascript (lets be honest, I probably still don't completely understand it). While the
After adding a couple things to Node-Libvirt one of the maintainers pointed out my original article on Node-Libvirt referenced the old callback style of using the library so I wanted to take a moment to write up a new guide for using Node-Libvirt with promises rather than callbacks. Since my
Recently I've been doing a fair amount of work with the libvirt API, specifically using the Node.js bindings found here. The bindings are great and work as expected but I was rather disappointed in the lack of documentation. The authors reference the tests for the project as
SpacePanel started as a learning experience primarily - I wanted to learn the in's and out's of virtualization using libvirt. Given the nature of the project, that basic goal was quickly met. However, during the early stages of development SpacePanel received a fair amount of attention
I recently started a project where I was tasked to use Bookshelf.js to interact with the database. The library its self is pretty handy, it is built on top of Knex.js, a great query builder that works with Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, but my major gripe was an
I finally decided to take the plunge and jump on the 3D printing bandwagon. My new 3D printer was delivered Thursday last week (03/19). I settled on the Da Vinci 2.0 Duo after a fair amount of reading. The primary thing that sold me was a) the price
Since I purchased my SmartThings hub a few months ago I've been all about adding new sensors, lights and other smart things to my apartment. Most recently I have been experimenting with the GE Link Light Bulbs. Overall I love them, but the one thing I (and my
SpacePanel development is continuing to move forward - that being said, I'm super excited to announce the next step in making SpacePanel amazing, the SpacePanel Indiegogo Campaign! We are looking to raise $5,000 to go towards continuing to expand SpacePanel. Our primary goals with this campaign include:
I've been pleasantly surprised with the amount of positive response I received after introducing Space in a previous post, so much so that it really inspired me to keep working on the project. Over the past week, I've been living and breathing Space, and I am
When I first started working on Space I knew I would need to use something like libvirt to make all of the calls to the hypervisor its self. I had heard of libvirt several times during my tenure in the IT industry so I figured it would be realtively easy
One of my goals for 2015 was to learn more about virtualization - for me, learning requires a little reading and a ton of doing. I'd like to introduce my latest project that is a result of the aforementioned "doing" - Space. Space is a virtualization