Sometimes you simply need a GUI application on Linux … remotely. Forwarding over SSH feels almost as magical as teleportation. 🪄 I’m studying for an exam that requires Kali Linux. Rather than me...

🥂 In the spirit of the new year, I thought I’d share how we’ve been creating some order out of chaos in our home. We’ve been at this for over two years now and it’s worked fairly well so far. W...

I added Google Analytics to my site in mid-April and then promptly forgot about it until about a month ago. It’s become a captivating new toy to understand my website traffic over the quiet holida...

I have my build compiling inside of a container … now I want to scan it with CodeQL, too. Let’s talk through two ways to do that and some anti-patterns to avoid. Which of these two paths are best...

There’s been quite a lot of commotion lately about The Company Formerly Known As Twitter’s 60% YoY cost savings by leaving the cloud in favor of data centers run in-house. Lots has been written ab...

Last time, we built a pipeline to test our custom CI container images on each proposed change. It built and launched a runner, dumped some debug information to the console as a “test”, then remove...

Let’s have your Actions runners build and test themselves! The custom runner in this case is rootless and sudoless, but still using Docker-in-Docker. This is usually a nice middle ground betwe...

One more handy use for a little computer - a local home media server! Local movie night is relaxing. It’s also great for putting the favorite kid video of the day on repeat … again and again and ...

🎃 It’s Friday the 13th - let’s talk questionable, but effective, ideas 👻 Your build infrastructure can update itself using your own CI tooling. It’s easier and way better than it sounds, especial...

It’s been a whole year since I started this website, so in the spirit of looking back, I wrote out some highlights from the post list. I’m sure there’s some eloquent prose that ChatGPT I could wri...