2024 Year in Review
I have wanted to write a year-in-review since around 2018, yet never followed through.
Buck Ryan
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Leaving Crossbeam
(I originally wrote this for LinkedIn and have copied it here for posterity.
Getting Started with the PinePhone Pro
Why I Bought a PinePhone For years, there has been a growing movement around gaining control of phone hardware, running completely open source software on phones, and generally regaining privacy and control over phones.
About Me
Buck has been an entrepreneur and software engineer for over ten years, primarily building data-intensive SaaS applications.
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Avoiding redundant Terraform code with loops
Terraform tip of the day: avoid redundant code with loops. This is a new-ish feature of Terraform that didn’t exist when I get started with it.
The Most Important Book to Read in 2018
Politics has obviously been heavy on everyone’s mind recently. Taxes, immigration, healthcare, it never ends.
Locking Down Permissions in PostgreSQL and Redshift
Creating users in PostgreSQL (and by extension Redshift) that have exactly the permissions you want is, surprisingly, a difficult task.
Om, Clojurescript, and Testing
This past week I started learning React, Om, and Clojurescript all at once.
Organizing photos with bash
I’ve been trying to organize my photos recently. I hadn’t kept up with them and I recently discovered I have a pile of photos dumped into a single directory.
Manipulating Vim Registers
Recently I came across PHP code that looked similar to this:
Automatically Focus on Amazon's Search Bar
Whenever I visit Amazon’s homepage, I do so hoping to search for things.