Should I Stay or Should I Go

I first started registering domain names and using shared hosting in 2000 after graduating from college. In 2005, I decided it was worth paying the extra money for a VPS Server – both to gain root access and to get off of shared hosting. Honestly, I mostly did...

Laravel 9 Jetstream Starter Kit using Inertia and Vue

Like most, I have been eagerly awaiting the release of Laravel 9! Yesterday I tweeted about my first Laravel 9 install: ➜ curl -s "https://t.co/A8BysypaTJ" | bash Creating a "laravel/laravel" project at "./app-pricing" Installing...

techLog =[0, Testing Business Ideas, bookshelf re-org];

Figured I should start putting this to good use again to help get me back on track with work. Reading: Up Next:always be testing: The Complete Guide to Google Website Optimizer Finished Reading past two weeks:Testing Business IdeasValue Proposition DesignBusiness...

Q4: WordPress Learning & Development

Last night I stayed up later than normal trying to plan what I needed to get done before the end of the calendar year in preparation for 2022. I have decided to delve back into WordPress so that I can get back to publishing content on the regular, and investigate...

hello (again), WordPress!

After fighting for well over a year to use something newer and cooler as the software for my blog, I’m back to WordPress. Again! I was finding that not having as cleanly polished a product as WordPress meant that I was spending more time fidgeting with kludges than...

2020 – That’s a wrap!

2020 was the year of getting these fucking monkeys off my back! CPTSD / AgoraphobiaVPS development pipelineLaravel & VueManifested a carSolopreneurCPTSD/Agoraphobia In 2020, I entered year 5 of CPTSD recovery. I felt pretty shitty about it being 5 years and not...

New Year, New Tech Stack!

I am now at the 3 year mark since trying to break back into the “booming” tech industry as a web developer, web server admin, and dba. Hard to believe this year is 20 years since graduating college! Three years ago, I worked three different jobs: one was...

Settling into the Township of Langley

Alright.  Now that it’s almost the end of November, it must be time for work year 2018 to start, right? In terms of my career, I have gained a lot more knowledge, became that much more organized, and knocked a few long standing items off of my massive to do...

Migrating MySQL Stored Procedures

Once upon a time, I moved a MySQL database and the stored procedures stopped working.  The website relying on them was effectively crippled because it was a data-driven website. When exporting a MySQL database in phpMyAdmin, there are Procedure options under Custom. ...

Spring 2018 Recap

A lot has happened since I last wrote. The ups: House is *finally* up for sale Gifted a bamboo Uncaged Ergonomic Standing Desk Move back to the coast is within sight! Read several books on cafe patio:  Debugging Teams, The Senior Software Engineer, Computer Science...