BlogFax
Where curiosity crashes into technology, well, programming most of the time.
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Still Here!
Still here! Sorry, this padawan needed to do some more learning... Hopefully, there will be more posts this year. I am also planning to clean up the theme a bit as well. May the fourth be with you!
RISC-V: The New Kid on the Chip
RISC-V is a new instruction set architecture ( ISA ). To be extremely accurate, RISC-V is a family of ISAs, but it is common to refer to them as the RISC-V ISA. An ISA specifies the behaviors a given CPU manufacturer's processor implementation must exhibit in order to maintain binary compatibility with other implementations. To more easily reason and speak about ISAs, they are often given a…
How to Build a Train Station One VPN at a Time
Like most of us in the software industry, I have a home lab set up at, well, home. In my lab I run various web services and tools for fun, for family, to learn, or for their utility. To save time and ensure my sanity in some cases, I use tools like Ansible, Docker, and in some cases even K3s. Today I am going to walk through installing Flatcar Container Linux on a bare metal VPS, then configuring…
My Automatic Resume Engine
I want to share my workflow for maintaining a resume in a repository hosted on GitHub. I will cover my motivation for doing it this way, my process, the important design decisions I have made up to this point, and finally some improvements that could be interesting projects to work on. The Motivation When applying for jobs, it's common to receive advice along the lines of "tailor your resume to…
Hello World!
Hello, World! This marks the start of my blog. To start it will be more like brain dumps of information I am working through at the moment. Notes to myself, really. May the fourth be with you!