Mike Kasberg's Blog

Setting up a development environment correctly might not seem like a big deal at first, but an incorrectly set-up environment can cause a lot of problems down the road if you’re not careful.

The Xiaomi m365 (also known as the Xiaomi Mi) is one of the most highly-rated electric scooters available.

Orange Pi is a relatively unknown competitor to Raspberry Pi.

I use a Pi-hole on my home network and I love it!

No keyboard, mouse, or monitor required!

No keyboard, mouse, or monitor required!

I’ve been a runner for most of my life, running track and cross country in both high school and college.

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a blog post called macOS 10.15: Slow by Design.

I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about my home office setup for a while now – and with mandatory work from home restrictions for COVID-19 in most places around the world, this seemed like a great time to write it!

When you run the Ubuntu installer, there’s an option to dual-boot Ubuntu with an existing Windows installation.

This might turn into a bit of a rant, but humor me.

For the last six months or so, I’ve been using an e-scooter on part of my commute to work.

Recently, I bought a new computer.

I think most software developers love short feedback cycles, whether they realize it or not.

I enjoy listening to tech talks from expert software engineers.

It’s been nearly 2 years since I originally wrote about How I Manage Passwords with KeePass.

It’s October, and Hacktoberfest is in full swing!

Is your source code developer-friendly?

I made a training log for runners in Google Sheets!

The Myth of Code Reuse, a quick video by Iain Lowe, became quite popular on Reddit in /r/programming a few weeks ago.

Your resume says a lot about you.

I recently completed a job search where I had the pleasure of interviewing at several companies.

I recently had to reinstall Windows on one of my personal computers.

Have you ever tried to diagnose a test failure and had no idea what’s broken?

How much faster does a new SSD make a 2012 MacBook Pro?

The Hour of Code is an annual event to encourage Computer Science education during Computer Science Education Week.

On the StackOverflow Podcast, they always ask their guests on the show how they got introduced to programming.

Hacktoberfest is a project sponsored by Digital Ocean and Github that encourages contributions to open source software.

AWS is incredible technology, making it easy for anyone to deploy a web service without needing to worry about managing servers.

Have you ever noticed your internet connection get slower when uploading a large file?

In recent years (and in some cases, for many years), Continuous Integration (CI) has been taking off.

I was recently shopping around for a new GPS running watch, and I tried both the Fitbit Surge and the Garmin Forerunner 35.

At SpotX, we manage our codebase with Git.

Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about how horrible it is to have to deal with the various password restrictions websites use.

I love stories about hunting down interesting bugs.

Jeff Atwood wrote a post on Coding Horror today calling out bullshit password rules.

Everyone’s Learning Docker Docker is the cool new technology.

One of my friends and colleagues writes for the Project Management for Developers blog.

My last post was about using Jekyll as a podcasting platform.

I recently did some volunteer work to upgrade the website for a podcast.

Chromebooks are becoming more popular these days, and their simplicity is something that really appeals to me.

Vim Refcard on Github I’m a huge fan of reference cards like the one Emacs provides.

Mint.com has always done a great job of showing me where I spent my money last week or last month, but until recently I was never able to figure out how to use it to tell me if I could afford to buy that new pair of shoes.

I wanted to modify an old boom box so it could play my iPod with an auxiliary cable.

When I searched for loft bed plans online, I didn’t find any freely available plans that I liked.

Nathan Witt and I won the bronze medal at SkillsUSA Nationals for 3D Animation in 2008.

I created this Suzuki GSXR model using Autodesk Maya as part of the Digital Evolutions 3D modeling & animation program at Smoky Hill High School.

This is my senior demo reel for the Digital Evolutions 3D modeling & animation program at Smoky Hill High School.

I created this 3D Nissan Skyline model during my junior year in the Digital Evolutions program at Smoky Hill High School.