charlatans
Another post about the blog infrastructure itself. I know. But the events of the larger world are a little too overwhelming to get my arms around at the moment, and my beloved White Sox hiring a walking, talking Blue Lives Matter flag for...
It’s a little hard to tell exactly when I started, based on the half-gigabyte dataset which I have to navigate without any signposts other than filenames and JSON tags. I’ve gathered this: I made my first friend on May 26, 2007 (yo, Ken)...
UPDATE 2020-10-23 20:15 CDT
I simplified the whole thing. Now there’s just a single opt-in step. You still get a confirmation email, but you don’t have to click anything to make it work. I also went into the database and just updated ever...
OK, I think the subscription system is finally ready to go! Big, big thanks to the beta testers who helped shake out the bugs.
But I suppose the question you may be grappling with is why? Why should I subscribe? And what exactly am I subscribing to? ...
UPDATE: The beta test is now over. Thanks to everyone who helped! I’ll be putting this into production shortly.
OK, I think I finally have enough bugs beaten out of my email subscription management system to make it ready for a public beta test...
I don’t play a ton of poker. Some charity tournaments here and there. I’m usually good enough to be one of the last players eliminated before the payouts start. Better than the random fish off the street, but not quite as good as the sha...
As I’ve mentioned, I am winding down my Facebook experience. There are a couple of things I need to do before I deactivate my account there for good, including completing the email subscription version of this blog, and writing what is likely t...
Very early this year, my company told me that I was doing to be done with the weekly commute back-and-forth to our headquarters in the Boston area, and I’d be assigned to my first long-term customer engagement, in New Jersey. I was told that a...
It’s infrastructure weekend at the old blogaroo. Many exciting things are happening!
Migrating the site to a bigger EC2 instance running Centos 8.2, and all the packages that come with that. ✅ Upgrading to a new version of the blog rend...
If you saw something that said, and I’m quoting directly here, “Please join us when your favorite band performs together as a band for the first time since March, live online from a rooftop in their hometown!” what would you expect...
