docker
Docker
Docker is quickly becoming one of my favourite tools in software engineering. It makes installing software easier and cleaner.
Kelvin Kang
ansible
Ansible
Install from ppa for Ubuntu sudo apt install -y software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository --yes --update ppa:ansible/ansible sudo apt install ansible General Commands Printing out all of the Ansible Facts ansible -i [inventory file name] [host name] -m setup > [file name] Playbook Running a playbook limiting to certain sections
application
Sunsama - An initial review
I've recently fallen in love with a new productivity app called Sunsama. I came across it quite by chance, but after using it for the past few months, it's working out to be the closest thing to the perfect productivity tool there is out there. I&
life
Monthly Update - March 2020
It's been a rough couple of months that started with me fracturing both my feet and then the whole world turned upside down because of COVID-19. The fracturing of my feet resulted in throwing a bit of a wrench to my health plans. However, I did make meaningful
software engineering
SSL breaking in Heroku with Cloudflare
I decided to put a 'real' URL to my side project which meant that I put it behind Cloudflare and turned on SSL for both CloudFlare and Heroku. However, I was running into an issue where the first symptom was that I was unable to log in. After
application
BodBot - an initial review
BodBot has turned out to be one of my favourite apps this year. I’ve been inspired by a number of people and one of the goals I set for myself this year was to get more fit, I needed a way to guide and motivate me as I ventured
software engineering
The Practicality of Behaviour Driven Development
I started on another side project, which I've dubbed Bunch of Stuff, and I've continued to appreciate the practicality of Behaviour Driven Development, especially with Cucumber on Ruby on Rails. I found that I'm more effective and efficient with prototyping when using these practices
life
Monthly Progress - January 2020
It's hard to believe it, but January just came and went already. As part of my yearly retrospective, I decided to add monthly progress on my goals for the year. Focus on my health I've been active 17 of the 31 days in January and have
life
Focusing on people that matter
This blog is the complement of my previous blog and an expansion of the retrospective that I wrote earlier. I ended up breaking up focusing on people that matter from focusing on things that matter because I was finding it hard to write this particular entry. After all, it was
life
Focusing on things that matter
I remember coming across this tweet over the Christmas break and it spurred many thoughts. It also became a big part on how I framed my retropsective for this year. Oh for fucks sake 🙄. Don’t sacrifice your 20s – or any other decade of life! – on the erroneous belief that
life
Retrospective on 2019
As part of my annual discipline of reflecting on the year that past, it's hard not to conclude that 2019 was a very tough year for me personally. It was one of the few times in a couple of decades where there were literal tears shed out of
software engineering
Too many redirects for WordPress behind Traefik when SSL is enabled
I’ve been experimenting with setting up Traefik as my main reverse proxy server for my home infrastructure. As part of that test, I wanted to put WordPress behind Traefik while serving the site up in SSL. After a long day of setting up Traefik and WordPress using Ansible, I