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I wanted a landing page for the 123dev newsletter and it was the perfect opportunity to try a few new things.

I posted last year about what it was like to move from a full time development role into a developer advocate (DA) position.

In my time at Amazon, I’ve observed the way we use documents is incredibly unique.

Maybe you want to switch your keyboard layout because you hear there are benefits for alternative layouts.

One of the things I miss most about working in an office is diagramming with coworkers.

You’ve discovered that Signal can provide you with secure communication from your phone that is cross platform and free!

I’ve been talking to a lot of people about how they can get a job in technology.

I think there’s a rule that any helpful tweet with 10k likes should be a blog post.

I switched from a role as a Sr.

There has been a lot of bad news about snap recently.

If your an engineer you probably spend a lot of time using a terminal.

Working from home can be a great opportunity to focus, get a better work life balance, and not get sick.

The fine folks at Palm offered to send me their new Companion phone in exchange for writing a review.

The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. – Peter Senge I think about how companies get a competitive advantage a lot.

I’ve been working full time remote for Disney Streaming for the past 6 months.

Here’s to us who moved because we couldn’t afford to stay.

I never would have imagined I would be a part of such an amazing place.

I am not an expert.

Dear Kubernetes Community, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon were an absolute blast!

TL;DR I’d love if Google made the ChromeOS experience better for professionals but I have little hope they’ll figure it out any time soon given the issues I experienced.

I recently ran a survey about infrastructure and applications for some research.

When formatting partitions on a Linux PC, you’ll see a wide variety of file system options.

Alternate title: How-to debug freaking go binary containers Containers are great for shipping software, but sometimes you can go too far when stripping down your container to make it as small as possible.

Kubernetes has a lot of options for running in cloud environments.

After 9 years of predictions I’ve been wrong with my predictions more often than I’ve been right.

Some times people will join the Kubernetes community and get confused on what the “k8s” is all about.

The outdoor security camera market didn’t exist much before this year.

Not all Ethernet cable is created equally.

Large scale DDoS are not rare occasions anymore.

Windows 7 gives the ability to quickly pull up a calendar from the taskbar by clicking on the time.

Forgive the analogies, I read Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA and despite a few slow parts, it was a really enlightening read.

Hypervisors are what make virtual machines possible, and they aren’t just for servers anymore.

Kubernetes networking has a few requirements .

Docker has been available on the Raspberry Pi for a while but 1.12 makes installation much easier.

NOTE: This article has not been updated for Kubernetes clusters that use RBAC for API authentication (versions 1.6+).

Microsoft recently announced Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) which allows you to run some Linux binaries on top of Windows using an API remapping layer to translate Linux API calls to Windows API calls.

After reading the Major Linux Problems on the Desktop article I thought I would point out some of the major successes for Linux on the desktop that I probably wouldn’t have known about if I weren’t using Linux on my laptop and multiple desktops.

This article is in reply to a post on Lifehacker .

Here’s my talk from the Southern California Linux Expo 14 (SCALE14x) this weekend.

I’ve been using Twitter for a long time now.

In a tradition that is now 8 years running (2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 ) here are my predictions for 2016.

My predictions for last year I was right about a lot but not always in the way I was hoping.

Earlier this week, we compared the iPhone and Android in a knockdown showdown of features that matter to us.

An injury from 1999 that still affects me today.

At my current job I have the luxury of a typical Southern California commute.

Over the past year I have had great opportunities to interview for positions at companies I respect, and some I didn’t.

That’s right, I took “technology” out of the title.

Ambient lights help with eye strain and glare from overhead lights.

If you frequently send out mass email news letters and keep getting users replying to all recipients, or need to disable the ability to forward an email, Microsoft Exchange and Outlook have you covered.