Will Warren

A short post for anyone who needs to have many different versions of Java installed on their macOS machine.

The ESP-12E is an awesome low-power WiFi-capable module with an ESP8266 inside. it also supports deep sleep and so can run on batteries for a super long time.

You can’t remove a disk from a RAIDZ zpool.

Up until 1.20, k3s shipped with Traefik 1.7.x built in.

I recently converted my Docker Swarm-based homelab to one powered by Kubernetes.

With the recent surge of companies “going remote” due to the COVID-19 outbreak I thought it might be nice to share some of the things I’ve learned about remote work over the years as well as my current setup.

It’s been over 10 months since my last blog post on here, and I decided it was high time for a fresh look at the site.

As I have written before, I’ve used just about every note solution around.

This website is powered by Hugo - a static site generator written in Go.

I keep my personal nodes in a bunch of Markdown files inside a Dropbox folder.

Redis is very, very good at running as a Highly Available service.

Amazon just launched a new service called AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) as part of their ever growing suite of services.

When using Microsoft SQL Server, enabling Read Committed Snapshot Isolation (RCSI) is one way to prevent reads (SELECT statements) from escalating into full table locks.

Documentation is one of those things that’s easy to down-prioritize to the very bottom of your todo list, even though it could be one of the most important tasks that you undertake in your day to day job.

As part of my regular annual website refresh, I decided to take a pretty drastic step and move from WordPress to a static site generator called Hugo.

Update: This technique also works in VMware Fusion 8!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a really great service-oriented way of creating virtual machines in the cloud with their Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) system.

I used the free Dynamic DNS (DDNS) service from Dyn since about 2006 and never had a single issue with it.

I recently got a new MacBook Pro as my new work machine.

Update: AWS now sends email using a Mail-From domain that they own and control (see here).

Heartbleed is a bug in the OpenSSL library that was publicly disclosed on April 7th, 2014 by an internet security firm called Codenomicon.

To connect to a box on your network that is running Oracle Database, you will first need to allow connections to Oracle through your firewall.

If you’re running a high-availability system of some kind, chances are you are into some sort of Load Balancing.

From time to time, I have been known to accidentally type my password into a “username” prompt in a bash shell.

If you’re writing a performance-focused app, it’s nice to be able to time how long various pieces of code take to execute.

Something I noticed as a general trend with modern technology (especially in mobile development) is a trend away from shiny, glossy UI elements like icons and buttons to a more flat, conservative style.

I recently came across a neat piece of software that maps out your mouse movements and creates artwork out of them.

Golfing!

Imagine a scenario where you have a git repo with 2 branches; master, the production-ready branch and dev, the branch where all the development occurs.

Sign this petition to get Oracle to stop bundling the Ask toolbar in with the Java installer.

[There is] Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains”

Came across this great quote from the book The Pragmatic Programmer (which I whole heartedly intend to read after seeing this quote)

I stumbled across this software while trawling the internet looking for good design tools.

I made this simple SQL script to insert all the provinces of Canada.

I recently came across a new client-server technology that really fascinated me.

I always forget how to do this, so I’m posting it on here for posterity.

View from my hotel of the Indianapolis skyline

When working on a program that has a GUI, it’s very important to make sure that the UI is fast and responsive.

I was tasked with writing some code to pull all the research project data that we’d collected over the past 10-15 years into our new J2EE-based product, Kuali Coeus.

So there was a 5.9 earthquake outside Richmond, VA yesterday and we felt the tremors all the way up here in Ontario, Canada.

tl;dr - It depends.