New Apps

Here is my list of apps I’ve had on the back burner that I’m hoping to have some time in Q42023 to work on. None of these domains work yet, but they all will use the same base app: Intrigued? Yes, I thought you might be. Well here’s the description and the pitch for each…

The Renaissance 1,000 Challenge

Oh you want it all? Think you are complete? Ok: here’s the challenge to be the new renaissance person: So those are all self centered goals for a person. But a true renaissance individual also looks out for others. To that end: Ok, ready to start the Renaissance 1000 challenge? Let’s go!

Engineering @ WeaveGrid

For a little over two years now I’ve been pretty busy working for a growing company founded in San Francisco by Apoorv Bhargava and John Taggart. I was hired in December 2020 during the pandemic and one of the first remote employees outside of the bay area. We’re around 70 people now as I write…

Increasing the size of persistent volumes

My coworker and I needed to increase the amount of days that Prometheus keeps logs from 15 days to around 90 days. This meant that we wanted to increase our storage, or our persistent volume. We use the kube-prometheus-stack helm chart for installing helm and have customized it to have persistent storage. It turned out…

Cloudfront S3 static site hosting and index.html

This article I followed was a little outdated.  Things do change a lot in 3 years.  It’s mostly the same as the function seems to work but the implementation does not.  Following the hints here I was able to get this to work.  The big one was you need to refresh your browser.  I think…

A brief history of on-prem serverless development

My colleague Pete Johnson, at Cisco has released a blog about a project called FONK.  I wanted to talk a little bit about why its important. iOS Developers Let’s first start back with the dawn of mobile application development.  Pretend you are an iPhone developer back in 2008.  You know Objective-C and you know how…