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Back in 2017, I (and I imagine a LOT of other people on DEV.to) got really into cryptocurrencies. I made some beer money off Ethereum, followed some projects, and really dug into the kind of experiences blockchain technology was able to power. Everyone I talked to seemed…
I just finished giving HenryNeeds.Coffee its annual-ish refresh. I updated the menu bar, split up a lot of the homepage into separate content-specific pages, but my favorite addition is the new Signal Boost page. When I was looking around for refresh inspiration, I came across…
After having some discussions with folks on the /r/sleeperbattlestations and /r/sleepingoptiplex subreddits, I wanted to toss up a quick post on what I'm doing with my server build. The more I hear bad stories coming out of Silicon Valley regarding user privacy the more I want to…
It's the spring of 2011. I've already been accepted to college. Senioritis is setting in and 3OH!3 is blaring on my headphones as I sit at my desk at 2 AM on a school night... Homework long since done, I'm staring at the screen of the heavily used 17" Gateway laptop I managed to…
It's the spring of 2011. I've already been accepted to college. Senioritis is setting in and 3OH!3 is blaring on my headphones as I sit at my desk at 2 AM on a school night... Homework long since done, I'm staring at the screen of the heavily used 17" Gateway laptop I managed to…
Someone once told me that: "New Haven is large enough to have a real city feel to it, but small enough that you can make whatever you want to exist in town happen through sheer willpower". I've seen that happen by being made a leader in NewHaven.IO, creating the short lived (and…
Real quick, as an aside: As an aside - in the spirit of Hacktoberfest, y'all should all check out All Things Open - A polyglot technology conference focusing on the tools, processes, and people making open source possible. It's a free virtual conference taking place on October…
What's up, y'all? Long time, no... blog? Hacktoberbest is almost upon us and this year I want to take things a little farther than just submitting a few pull requests. The event is meant to help people get more into open source development, and in that vein I wnat to treat…
Hey everyone! I haven't forgotten about all of you. Just had a wild week and a half at work that we're just now getting on top of. There are still some posts in the pipeline about building, configuring, and running applications on my Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster! Until then, I…
Hey folks! My last post, titled How To Incorporate Containers Into Your Daily Duties, was all about how you can use containers to improve your work as a developer. The problem with that is that it necessitates y'all knowing how to set up, configure, and run Docker containers. I…
We're going to take a bit of a sidestep this week. I was planning on converting a Docker-Compose project into a Kubernetes one, but I had a small project pop up this week. That project involved me setting up a container to mimic a production environment so I could test my script…
I just finished Nigel Poulton's The Kubernetes Book. I highly recommend it, even though it pointed out some pretty big misconceptions I had about how some important K8s components work. It's a great surface level intro to the world of Kubernetes and how it can help build projects…
In Day 3, I included a blurb from my DevOps-y friends about the natural progression of abstractions on top of containers: You usually start with docker run CLI commands and graduate to tools with more layers of abstraction as you need them. Docker-compose comes next, followed by…
First off, some housekeeping. I can already tell that coming up with a daily post is going to be harder than my buddy Alex had with his SVG work. He had one animation to complete every day. I'm spending all month working towards one larger goal. However, I'll do my best to share…
In the spirit of learning in public, I wanted to share why I picked Kubernetes as the topic of my deep dive, what my defined goals are for the end of the month, and what my learning plan looks like in order to get me over the finish line. As short as a month can feel, this is a…
Hi, my name is Henry Quinn and in July I'll be "learning in public." Last month, my buddy Alex Trost started a learn in public month after reading this post by Shawn Wang. In 30 short days he really upped his game with SVG animations (enough where he was asked to create an…
Looks like it's time for another PSA, y'all. Buckle in. Unless you've been living under a rock since the 2012 U.S. presidential election cycle, you know that "fake news" has been running rampant. We're in a real life age of Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque doublespeak fueled by literal…
PSA: Don't download Facebook's VPN. They're going to start pushing it soon. Explanation below. So, some of you might (will) start seeing a setting in your mobile Facebook app called "Protect." Hitting it will take you to the app store and prompt you to download an app called…
I don't update everyone on what I'm up to very often, and if that upsets or worries anyone, I'm sorry. Those who are close to me know I value face to face interaction more than whatever meme posts or video snippets end up on Facebook, but I've had a lot happening recently. I…
I haven't been updating this nearly as much as I should have been. Truth be told I've been ignoring some of my yearly goals. Guitar has all but fallen to the wayside, and I'm honestly okay with that. It's one of those things I'd love to be good at, but really don't want to put…
I've only been in the web development game for a little under two years, but I'm building applications for a federal agency that are getting me invited to speak at conferences. It took me a while to figure out how to get to that point, and I didn't have anyone available to give…
Trust your gut, but do what makes for a better story. None of this was even an idea yet. All I knew is that I was tired of being told by my supervisors in all too many ways that my behavior as a resident advisor had been disappointing. Had they hired me to watch a small dorm full…
As promised, a group writing exercise from college. We got into groups, and were to write a section of a story (no real parameters for the assignment) and then pass it off to the next guy without explanation. I broke this into chunks to make it easier to read online. I'm HQ. I…
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