RayGervais

It’s so easy to jump into the deep end, to vibe.

A local AquaSec tool for securing our precious containers, filesystems and git repositories!

Because we all get distracted and need a hand focusing, sometimes Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed a severe degrade in my ability to focus.

_Because preferences of a Linux user don’t stop at the software I’ve used the Anne Pro 2 since 2016, and though it has served me well -even better since I had installed the OpenQMK alternative firmware on it, I decided to replace it.

A story about Love, Dance, and Linux Last year, two of my childhood friends got married just outside of Ottawa in the small town of <>.

Recently, a conversation I was part of involved a casual sharing on what the metaphorical difference was between someone who had the mindset of a software developer compared to one with the mindset of a software engineer.

With all the recent drama around Rust and Typescript, I thought why not join in the fun and share some additional atrocities in another language common to my blog, Go!

Last week, I was tasked with implementing Kubernetes admission webhooks for a brand new [[Go]] Operator which would interact with both internal and external APIs, so I thought why not document how to develop and test operator webhooks locally using what w…

Another article about a text editor?

Recently I finished reading Teiva Harsanyi’s 100 Mistakes and How To Avoid Them, and instead of writing a review (TLDR, everyone working with Go should read this), I thought I’d share four mistakes which I found interesting and didn’t know before. #13.

I’ve been working in the Cloud Native space for over 1.5 years, and in that time I’ve had weekly chances to succeed and conquer what defeated me previously; I leveled up.

Recently, I had the (not-so) fun experience of porting custom resource definitions from their YAML manifests into Go structs, to which I had the interesting discovery of the following CLI functions and how they may help my task.

Ray, what are your goals?

This past week, I learned an interesting trick which completely changed how I’ll approach writing Python projects in VS Code.

What is Cloud Native?

The first in a series of kubernetes wisdom nuggets that I wish I had when I started working with Kubernetes in both a professional and hobby manner.

One morning, I decided that I wanted to highlight the importance of a project claiming to be blazingly fast A recent trend you may have noticed on GitHub and other Git-based platforms is the concept of the [awesome-list](https://github.com/topics/awesome-…

For when experience leads you having a PTSD-like relationship with the command git stash Let me give you a scenario, and I’ll let you tell me if it’s one which you’ve encountered before.

For the first time in years, I managed to break my Fedora installation to the point where I thought, “hey, why not install from scratch and start fresh?”

Or, how to distract yourself with technology while trying to build new technology at breakneck speeds Building a Golang-powered Back-end I can remember it like it was just yesterday, I had a long weekend to myself planned to the brim with music and binging

Recently, while extending our CI/CD to support go Modules which pull from our private repository, I ran into an issue which resulted in me mucking around with the go environment variables in my Dockerfile.

As of December 31st, 2021, Tori V’s latest track, Let Go of Me was released to all streaming platforms, including: Spotify, Apple Music!

Continuing on with our Death Counter Application, or, how, many times can a floating skull kill me?

Or, how to teach a newer language to someone acquainted with Visual Basic while keeping the interest relatable For the past month, I’ve been living at my dad’s after a retinal detachment surgery left him both unable to drive or conduct detail sensitive wo…

Or, how to waste hours a week making the same codebase you looked at in the last hour appear different I decided to write this after managing what would be considered a hell of a move: bringing down an entire cluster along with two months of the team’s wo…

TIL: Vim uses 8-bit or 24-bit color schemes For a few of my Hacktober contributions, I wanted to add a few small tweaks which would help integrate the Helix text editor better into my desktop’s colorscheme.

Or, how to stretch a one-hour Podcast into a multi-hour listening experience While discussing a plan of attack regarding finding and implementing Open Source issues which would count towards Hacktoberfest 2021, I was forwarded an idea which I never thought

Nothing screams confidence like being able to setup your Fedora Linux desktop with a few lines of SHELL script and offloading to a dedicated tool About once a year, I typically wipe out both my Windows and Linux systems, do a clean install and setup them…

A Busy August Previously, I had written about some lessons I wanted to share from my time at Scotiabank as I made my exit, but left out a few other items which made my August (and by extension, summer) packed.

Would you believe me if I said I had rewritten this one article five times?

Remember when response videos where a thing?

Or how to alienate yourself in the world of VS Code In my previous exploits around the terminal-based workflow -which, you can read about more here, I had setup a workflow with tmux, alacritty, and vim to great success for my average day tasks.

The path to staying sharp means always learning I’ve wanted to try out Rust for the past few months, my curiosity deriving from it’s rise in systems programming and being rated the number one developer loved language for the fifth year in a row.

A quick CLI notetaking application written in Go.

Or, how SELinux and Docker can destroy a weekend of ambition Context My WSL 2.X setup finally kicked the bucket when Windows was acting far too slow as of recent, so I opted to reset everything and pursue a dual-boot configuration; my logic being that hav…

Since January 2020, I’ve (for the first time) managed to use my preferred notebook as a daily todo list and (small) journal.

A Cheatsheet which I hope to reference until memorized.

What three years working in Enterprise Environments has Taught Me About Scripts Always Provide Confirmation Prompts You’ve heard the term fat-fingering, which implies the slip of a key leading to production going down when you accidentally click said butt…

Or, How To Look Like A Hacker at Starbucks I’ve long been inspired by the often beautiful -yet vastly nonfunctional- desktop setups found on /r/UnixPorn and other Linux-based forums.

Hey friend, it’s been a while since I last posted here -soon to be four months had I not started writing this article.

func TestHelloWorld(t *testing.T) {} is so well engrained into my muscle memory Continuing on with last week’s Athenaeum post, I mentioned that I wanted to explore easily overlooked processes or topics that junior developers don’t always have the chance to

An introduction to Hound, The Code Review CI Tool and Testing in Golang Conceptualizing Athenaeum James Inkster write up the best description of Athenaeum, which I’ll share here.

My experience with Pomodoro, 9-5 I’ve always had terrible luck focusing when not in the office, I believe the cause rooting from the environment itself implying that “work gets done” here vs at home.

I’ve probably rewrote aspects of this post three times, let’s see how the fourth turns out.

This is a true story of pain and beating the odds.

Despite my constant drift to different technologies, operating systems and languages (which, to be fair is rather natural with the given task, ever-changing preferences, etc), I’ve found the motivation and drive behind has never changed.

Preface: I have no idea what I’m doing, but the best way to learn is through example and imitation.

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Lets See if Ray Can Avoid Starting a Flame War Before The Third Paragraph!

RUN export context=“this” In my free time, I’ve tried to contribute some of my Docker and development experience to @humphd’s Telescope project, a recent contribution that I’m proud is helps reduce the space complexity of the production and development im…