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SSL in Nginx using Let's Encrypt
A working how-to for putting Let's Encrypt SSL on nginx using the manual webroot method, since the plugin was broken. Covers the acme-challenge config, generating certs, and a systemd timer for automatic renewal.
NetApp LUN Alignment
How to check and manually set the LUN alignment offset on NetApp without the VSC wizard, which came in handy for misaligned Linux LVM volumes the tool wouldn't flag. NetApp doesn't officially support this, so know what you're doing.
Leadership in Gaming
Leading a World of Warcraft raiding guild sounds silly, but recruiting, setting rules, distributing loot, and keeping 25 people happy is real management practice. Here is what running one taught me about leadership.
The American Dream
Why am I so unhappy just being content? A jaded, somewhat bleak picking-apart of the American Dream, and why a comfortable life I know is good still feels like one I would rather quit.
Life Sucks, Then You Die
A gloomy walk through the whole arrangement: school, work, retirement, death, and how we sell our labor back to the companies whose stuff we are working to afford. I do not have a fix, just the bleak math of it.
Lost Email and Contacts in Thunderbird
If Thunderbird updated and suddenly your mail, contacts, and settings are gone, it likely just made a new default profile and orphaned your old one. A step-by-step on pointing a fresh profile back at your real data.
I'll handle this, I'm a professional.
Calling yourself a professional just means you got paid, not that you are any good. The gap between making money at something and actually being an expert, and why professionalism is an attitude most professionals never show.
Developing a career and managing change.
At 26 with a self-made career, here is the advice I would give: do what you are good at instead of chasing dreams, go to college, never stop learning, stay replaceable, and embrace change rather than fear it.
Web development sucks
Building a site that works across every browser, resolution, and busted old version of IE turns into a pile of hacks I am not comfortable with. A perfectionist's case for why web development just sucks.
Staying Organized in a Digital World
An obsessive's tour of how I keep bookmarks, calendars, contacts, email, music, and photos in sync across far too many computers and two iPhones. It mostly works, but the seams still show.
Naps are Super Good.
A wholehearted defense of the afternoon nap against everyone who keeps telling me to cut it out. As it happens, the research — and Edison, Einstein, and Churchill — are on my side.
What's so bad about cubicles?
Everyone loves to mock the cubicle drone, but mine is a roomy, private, pretty pleasant place to work. A defense of the cube, and of the IT guys everyone assumes have it easy.
Windows Vista, It Doesn't Suck
A year on Vista, including a regretted downgrade back to XP, convinced me the hate is overblown. The case for 64-bit Vista from someone who actually used it, UAC complaints and all.
Why can't I just be successful online?
Seven or eight years of trying to build something online I could quit my day job for, and a postmortem on every project that died, usually because someone bigger beat me to it.