life
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
software engineering
I’ve been playing around with Docker and Ansible this break. I just hit a rather bizarre issue that kept cropping up. The error I got was “Failed to import the required Python library (Docker SDK for Python: docker (Python >= 2.7) or docker-py (Python 2.6)) I tried
software engineering
I’ve started to play with SearchKick again as a new component to my pet project and I kept hitting a FrozenError message whenever I ran the re-index call Traceback (most recent call last): 1: from (irb):1 FrozenError (can't modify frozen String) After running a trace, I
software engineering
I decided I was going to try to develop on my Ubuntu machine today and I ran into the following error: .rbenv/versions/2.5.0/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems.rb:289:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a) with