Oh, exFAT Doesn’t Work on Linux

But to the rescue comes the search engine. I found some material on the matter and, as I’ve learned frequently, don’t count out Linux when it comes to support of nearly everything on Earth. Sure enough, there’s support for exFAT (really, why wouldn’t there be?) Check out this repo: https://github.com/relan/exfat There’s of course the git... Continue reading →

The Method I Use Setting Up a Dev Machine for Node.js

UPDATED: April 4th, 2019, March 17th, 2022, and again on November 18th, 2024. It seems every few months setup of whatever tech stack is always tweaked a bit. This is a collection of information I used to setup my box recently. First off, for the development box I always use nvm as it is routine... Continue reading →

Quick San Francisco Trip, Multi-Cloud Conversations, and A Network of Excellent People to Follow

A Quick Trip Boarded the 17x King County Metro Bus at 6:11am yesterday. The trip was entirely uneventful until we arrived in Belltown in downtown Seattle. A guy with only his underwear on boarded the bus. Yup, you got that right, just like those underwear nightmares people have! That guy was living this situation for... Continue reading →

Collecting Terraform Resources

I just finished and got a LinkedIn Learning (AKA Lynda.com) course published last month on Learning Terraform (LinkedIn Learning Course & Lynda.com Course). Immediately after posting that I spoke with my editor at LinkedIn Learning and agreed on the next two courses I’ll record: Terraform Essentials and Go for Site Reliability Engineers. Consider me stoked... Continue reading →

Getting Started with Twitch | Twitch Thrashing Code Stream

I’d been meaning to get started for some time. I even tweeted, just trying to get further insight into what and why people watch Twitch streams and of course why and who produces their own Twitch streams. 📺What do you watch on Twitch? 👀Why do you watch it? 📹Why do you make your twitch stream?... Continue reading →