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A few more years pass, another post about my next dramatic (to me at least) life change. I’m starting to think this is going to be a 5-yearly occurrence at this point. Better than a 7-year-itch I suppose. So what are you doing Jason? Technically, I’m airbnb-ing in Thailand for a few months. This so far has involved a fair bit of The Legend of Zelda, some beers and lots of scooting…
This is a test, please don’t ignore! Or well, you can, but it’s only a quick one, all about how I’m trying to hack together some static-site publishing from my ipad. What my previous static site deployment looked like: I’d write the new post into my repo. Commit and push it just for safety/backup. I’d manually rsync the build folder up to my vps Hey-presto, new site…
You’re managing your cloud infrastructure using Terraform. You’ve got your first environment up and running and you’re already reaping the benefits of a codified infrastructure. Changes are easy. But, now you need to set up a second environment (staging, prod, whatever) and you’re finding that managing this is not straight forward. There’s a bunch of arguments to…
Along with the million other things I’ve been trying over the past year of seeking self-improvement, journaling is one of the ones I’ve had partial success with (well, more than zero-success at least). Here’s some implementation detail on my setup and how I’ve kept it as bare-bones as possible, backed-up in the cloud and, most importantly for my tin-foil fetish, secure. The…
This is a quick little post about how I realised that there’s a nice and easy way to view detailed information about a web certificate available to most sensible people: Firefox TL;DR: code This is a built-in feature of firefox: click on the little padlock icon in the address bar when visiting any website using TLS, select the view cert info and a new tab will open displaying info about the…
I recently changed this site generation from using Hexo (a JavaScript static site generator), to Hugo (a Golang -based one) and it made me happy for quite a few reasons. Don’t get me wrong, Hugo ain’t perfect, but having a little less JavaScript in my life has made me a happy chappy. Well mostly, I’m still using it for my asset pipelines for now, so I haven’t yet gotten…
* Don’t worry, this isn’t another job title you’re going to have to add to your CV this year One thing that I’ve come to notice of late is that I’m a little different to a lot of developers that I meet. Many developers, seem to have a penchant for wanting to write code for the sake of writing code. To optimise, to agonise over, and ultimately to perfect the very…
I’m planning to write a little guide on how you can host a static site effectively, but it got me thinking that first I might wanna write about WHY you’d want to use a static site in the first place. Here goes! So, why bother with static? Isn’t WordPress amazeballs? SURE it is, half the internet runs on it, but that doesn’t mean it’s the best option for a lot of…
After reading the recent reporting on the SQLite code of conduct I thought it might be fun to take a punt at a code of conduct based around the “Don’t be a Dick” philosophy. Should be fun! Note: I’m just doing this for fun. No real human should consider this a sensible contribution to the CoC-making world. It’s just a nice thought-experiment. Summary Sometimes people…
Nothing is new, everything is rebooted, cloned, redone, reimagined and generally rehashed a million billion times until we stop noticing that it’s more of the same twaddle. Unfortunately, I quite like this domain so I figure that I’ll just stick with it now that I’m giving blogging another go :D After my last jaunt traveling I kind of lost the drive to write any words. As an…
I recently read a “self-help” book entitled “Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential” - and trust me, this isn’t the kind of wanky bollocks that I’m normally keen on. If it lacks mages, spaceships or nerd humour I’m usually not interested but, on this instance a few factors came into play that made me give it a go (and, spoiler alert, it’s pretty damn good, so I’m glad that I did!).…
Note: there’s a lot of swearing in this post. Please add all of your complaints onto the first unrelated youtube video you can find - preferably something SJWy so you get the best trolls. I’ve finally gone and done it. That unconscionable, ruthless and nonsensical act tantamount to modern social suicide. I’ve deleted my Facebook account, and I do feel rather vitriolic about it :D. Backstory: Many…
Picked up a pair of noise cancelling headphones recently and life now contains significantly less of the mind-numbing drivel that I’m usually forced to put up with than it did before. Here’s some reasons why they’re a perfect fit for remote working & location independence. I guess the location that I’m writing this post in is perhaps influencing the amount of vitriol it…
So it turns out that the south of Portugal has beautiful coastlines, countryside, fishes, wine, sun, waves and even a nice southerly breeze. I’d ask you not to tell anyone but I think the cat’s already out of the bag… fuckers. Well, I assume it is, otherwise why would there be so many “bloody foreigners” here? I use the phrase jovially but that was genuinely out of…
Lisbon seems to be the western-european mecca for digital nomads at the minute so, to avoid using any brain-power whatsoever, we made it our first stop. It was a good choice. We left Lisbon the weekend before last after a month there and I’ve finally gotten around to summing up my thoughts. I think the most surprising thing about it is that it felt so comfortable after such a short period of…
One of the initial justifications for this international jaunt upon which I find myself was the goal of finding a new forever home. A new place I can refer to myself as “being from” and somewhere that was empirically better than where I’d been before. I tend to prefer innovation via trial-and-error in my professional life so surely the concept would fit perfectly well when…
Here begins my blog. I’ve contemplated starting one of these for several years now but, like many things, I’ve only just gotten around to actually doing it. As an introduction to me: I’m a British nerd from the internet, wot travels a bit. As such, a lot of the things I write about will be nerdy, internety or experiences from the things I come across on my travels ( more about me…
I’m Jason Kelly, a Software Developer from the wonderfully rainy city of Manchester, England. After far too long under the oppressive British gloom I’ve decided it’s time for a change and I’m using my freedom as a remote-worker to explore the world. As you probably assumed from “Software Developer”, I’m a pretty nerdy and introverted kinda guy but…