Joel Oliveira

Photo of a full, busy, garage.

I’d run into this presentation and blog post from Maggie Appleton before but just this weekend finally had a chance to sit down and really digest it.

Ruth, our puppy, keeping me company while I do some work.

One of the gifts for my son this past holiday season was that we would bring him to Fenway Park for the first “Fenway Fest”.

As cliché and corny as this may be, still: tend to your career like a garden.

Question: is "criticism" always negative?

“I’m experimenting wth Caddy as a replacement for Nginx.”

So much stuff in this thing.

Photo of the Fujifilm X100VI camera, taken with a (clearly inferior) iPhone 14 camera I bought a new camera.

To say that I’m interested in or curious about object storage in the cloud is an understatement.

One of the more beautiful sunsets in our neighborhood this year, which seems fitting, as the sun now sets on another year.

Generated image via ChatGPT/Dall-E illustrating the phrase "one man's trash is another man's treasure" T’is the season and all that.

An illustration of what solo entrepreneurship, in retrospect, would feel like.

If I’m lucky, I manage to get to about one comics convention a year.

Last week we learned that our CEO of 16 years, Stefania Mallett, would be stepping down as CEO of ezCater.

After 9871 days the inevitable happened and Covid-19 got Sara and I.

As we close the chapter on the summer of ‘22 I’m left dealing with the feelings that hit me every year at this time.

You know the saying - "Nothing in life is free" A year or so ago I bought a Synology NAS and started to consolidate some of the disparate cloud storage services into one single physical box that I knew I could (theoretically) control myself.

Brothers and Sisters Coffee, Brookline Village Most weekday mornings I will walk G to the bus stop near Brookline High School for his trip to his day camp.

After finishing a recent book – Mouth to Mouth (verdict: “meh. ⭐⭐”) – I picked up Michael Ian Black’s “A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son” and dived in.

A couple weeks ago I noticed there were some style-related issues here, so I reached for the CSS to make the necessary fixes.

Hazel.app is an outstanding utility – one I’ve written about before – for watching directories and doing something based on when things changed, certain criteria, etc.

We're in the midst of the NBA Finals, which calls for a trip to TD Garden.

When it comes to static-site generators Jekyll is clearly among the old heads (if not the oldest).

In keeping with the theme of sharing misery in the hopes that maybe someone, somewhere, runs into this problem on Google some day and can save themselves from hours of struggling with “what the hell is happening here, exactly?”

Revoke LetsEncrypt Certs in Traefik’s acme.json File First, credit where credit is due to Daniel and Senan in this Traefik issue.

"Middle of nowhere" Utah, mid-x-country drive back to NE from San Diego - November 2001.

Obligatory trip to our favorite neighborhood park to enjoy the fresh slush snow Did you know that Docker will automatically write firewall rules, using iptables, so that whatever ports you expose to the host OS will be allowed visibility out to the world?

When new posts are created and deployed here, they end up getting “announced” on a Slack channel with some local(-ish.

I’ve never taken a walk through knee-deep molasses before, but I have a feeling it’s similar to the first week back at work after the new year.

Wellp.

We’ll get the obvious point out of the way, which is, of course, it’s Christmas weekend.

Several years ago I met this guy, Matt.

The Instagram CEO testifying to congress and asserting that Instagram isn’t harmful is genuinely pretty funny.

I’d mentioned in the previous post that it was a busy week.

In what has been an atypical, overwhelmingly busy, week, the highlight has been a very early Hanukkah.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that it’s been well over 5 years – almost 6 – since I last updated this blog.

I am super excited to share what I’ve been working on for these past few months.

Not all shell scripts are created equal.

While writing a post yesterday I noticed there were some gaps in my vim setup for when I’m authoring a markdown file so here are a few tips for polishing up your markdown experience in vim, specifically for jekyll blogs.

I’ll get right into it - 2015 was a good year.

I will often buy self-published programming books and send them to my kindle (and iPad, and iPhone) via email.

Did you know you can tell if someone is a programmer simply by saying the word "timezones" and seeing if they cringe?

Have you heard of this Rubocop yet?

There are, I’m sure, people wondering why on earth I would leave a job like the one I’ve had for 18 months at thoughtbot.

When working on a rails engine or plugin you might notice that, when running your dummy/test app in development mode, it will not reload any changes to your engine.

Hello Jekyll.

# Site’s been down for a while – sorry about that everyone!

# I started writing this over at Hacker News and figured I would re-post it here.