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There is an American folk tale about a man named John Henry.

My personal website has existed in some form since the late 2000s, and like many hobby projects, it has been rebuilt far more times than strictly necessary.

Redis is a widely used and extremely fast cache server.

Kickstart and Preseed are tools for automatically installing Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.

I’m a long-time reader and participant of the Reddit.com Subreddits /r/Datahoarder and /r/OpenDirectories.

I recently encountered some odd behavior in nginx involving file upload sizes.

Earlier this year, I traveled from my home in California to the Isle of Man, which is a 35 mile long island in the Irish Sea, known for its motorsports events.

I’ve ran this blog in its current form for about 5 years now.

I recently came across the source code of a browser-based game I wrote around 2005, when I would have been 15 years old.

Recently, I came across the concept of SSI - “Single System Image” - Linux clustering.

This blog - and some of my other sites - have finally been made secure, with some new TLS certificates courtesy of Let’s Encrypt.

I moved to the San Francisco Bay Area almost 3 years ago now.

I host my projects on a dedicated server rented from OVH, I’m a huge VMware fan, so I’ve used their free product, the ESXi Hypervisor, to cram lots of virtual machines inside my one server.

I’ve been a long time user of 1Password, a password vault by AgileBits.

In a previous post, I described some of my early approaches to building a NAS for my home.

I’m not a fan of losing data, so I always have some sort of redundant storage at my disposal.

Update 04/08/2019: I’ve had trouble with this method on newer versions of Subsonic and since the original technique was kind of bad - it more or less triggers crash recovery - I decided to take another look.

I recently acquired a low-end 3d printer (0.3mm extrusion head) and after a few practice prints I decided to put my new skills to the test.

I bought some USB to TTL adapters on the cheap from China.

As mentioned in my last post, I’ve been learning up electronics with the Arduino.

I’ve been learning electronics and playing with an Arduino lately.

In 2014, I graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and shortly moved to the Bay Area, California.

Anyone who remembers watching cable TV also remembers the DVR - Digital Video Recorder - a device that lets you record live TV and save it for later playback.

Coda 2 (Previously, just Coda) has been my “daily driver” suite for web development for around 4 years now.

A website Project Lead The Way Website, where the Rochester Institute of Technology serves as New York State’s National Affiliate.

A massive Drupal website, that took us nearly two months to design and develop!

Another beautiful Drupal website, this time for RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship in downtown Rochester.

The RIT Board of Trustees Intranet Portal is a CodeIgniter based web application that I designed and developed.

Last November, I had the opportunity to visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, while visiting relatives living in the area.

This was actually a project I completed about a year prior, but we decided to revisit it to update the site and add responsive design features - try the site on a smartphone, it’s excellent!

The Innovative Learning Institute at RIT is a new department, under the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies branch.

Every October, the ski resort at Whiteface Mountain has a small Oktoberfest.

The CMS Website was created for RIT’s Center for Multidisciplenary Studies, and was graphically designed by Dumbwaiter Design and developed by myself.

Benson Mines is a long-abandoned iron mine near Watertown, NY.

Hello!

A website showcasing the work of mid century artist Frans Wildenhain, built on WordPress.