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Couple, Too, Tree During Boise Code Camp this past weekend, pgFirstAid hit 500 stars on Github!

We are only in March of 2026 This March I had the pleasure of speaking at SCALE 23x, making this the first public speaking events that I have done in my industry.

Making progress, one check at a time Since I publicly announced pgFirstAid in November 2025, the project is somehow at 477 (as of 2026-01-06) stars on GitHub!

pgFirstAid, your PostgreSQL Server’s health checkup I started my career in data as a SQL Server DBA and was quickly introduced to Brent Ozar.

Confessions As the AI Chatbot Hype-Train started chugging along at the first announcement of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November of 20221, I will admit that I was an immediate skeptic.

Welcome to SCALE 22x!

ALF Chicago Marathon 2025 Liver Life Challenge Update We are approaching our $1000 mark, with a strong $937 already raised in January!

ALF Chicago Marathon 2025 Liver Life Challenge Update First, I want to thank everyone for donating!

Notable Articles More RTO Nonsense (no, not Recovery Time Objective….) https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-half-of-dell-s-full-time-workforce-in-the-u-s-has-rejected-returning-to-the-office-they-d-rather-work-from-home-than-get-promoted/ar-BB…

Notable Articles Gordon Mah Ung https://www.pcworld.com/article/2564783/gordon-mah-ung-remembered.html Growing up in my PC Master Race years, I remember reading PCWorld articles, and eventually, watching clips with Gordon in front of the camera in the ear…

Notable Articles The “Ideal” Pull Request Template https://ashleemboyer.com/blog/pull-request-template/ I started to see this more at the company I work with now when I get tagged for schema reviews.

I Still Use This Website Yet another large gap in my posts, and the only answer I can provide to you is lack of time and motivation to do anything about it.

I have been busy You will notice how my posts are spread out, and my answer for that is simple; life.

I gave up To save the trouble of leaving you all on a cliff hanger, I switched back to pop_OS.

NixOS Journey, Part 1 So, for those who have yet to go down this path, it would be helpful to explain what NixOS is.

Time for mysqldump The script is identical other than two things.

The Ask I was asked to do the following.

This is a quick one To prove a point, and make it “easier”, you could just use docker and run FreshRSS that way.

I love RSS If you are like me and love RSS, I highly recommend hosting your own RSS Feed aggregator.

Davis Vantage Pro2 Acquired A few years ago, my wife’s grandfather gifted me a Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station.

As a true homelab enthusiast, I decided to swap out the middle fans of my supermicro 826 server chassis and the two X5860s with two L5640s.

Getting Down to the Basics This will be an ongoing task and is in a private repo currently.