🎉 This is post number 50! 🎉 I read a lot before starting this blog about capital-B Blogging, building an audience/brand/etc., and many writings on writing from writers I admired. There’s a solid ...

Part 1: A gentle intro to container escapes (link) 🔐 Lots of security and sysadmin courses talk about a “container escape”, but what is that really? We’ll go over what a container is, demonstrate ...

New gig, new tech stack to learn … let’s do the simple things first! 📚 some-natalie/jekyll-in-a-can: 🧪🥫 - it’s Jekyll in a container on GitHub’s container registry We’re going to build a cont...

Tech job descriptions are the professional version of a tween “dream boyfriend” checklist. 🙊 It’s normally a lot of bullet points, some of them likely much more meaningful than others. Learning w...

This post links to all the publicly-accessible GitHub content I’ve written, coded, or talked to.1 I’ve left GitHub. As this website is mostly things I’m learning and making repeatable (e.g., thin...

Last time, we looked at a simple “chargeback” system for the SaaS version of GitHub. As there’s limited availability of the data by API, we downloaded some CSV files and used a spreadsheet’s built...

One of the most common questions asked by companies adopting GitHub Enterprise is how to know who’s using what. This information is critically important to government agencies, non-profits, consul...

My Flipper Zero hasn’t left my side since I got it last summer - it’s earned a spot in my laptop bag for how handy it is at work and at home. Here’s how it saved some headaches over the holidays. ...

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...