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Wrote a Libre Password Manager this weekend

I've always been a paranoid person around computers, and I've wanted to start using a password manager for a while, but the only cloud-based one which seemed trustworthy (1Password) costs money and is…
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Docker API Security Gateway Proof Of Concept

EDIT May 2021: I am now using this thing in production. The Docker API is very useful, but it also presents a security issue. Access to the docker socket or Docker API essentially represents root acc…
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Docker on ODROID XU4: Installation and Creating a Base Image

EDIT March 2021: Now that I've updated my website stack (using an ODROID HC1, same board as XU4, but with built-in SATA). I have GoatCounter set up for web analytics, and I can see I'm still getting…
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Forwarding Port 443 on CenturyLink Technicolor C2100T Modem

The Technicolor C2100T modem provided to customers by CenturyLink has a bug. By default, it's remote management interface, when enabled, will bind to port 443. However, even when the remote manageme…
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tickscript-studio for kapacitor

Finally I get to show off some of the cool stuff I've been developing at work! I got the go-ahead from my employer to open-source one of the tools I developed called tickscript-studio. This is a w…
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Pragmatic Path Towards Non-technical Users Owning Their Own Data

I don't have a statistic, but I assume that the vast majority of the applications and content that the average user interacts with these days goes through a web browser at some point. If your app doe…
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HTTP Empty Response problem with ASP.NET Core 1.0 on Docker Linked Container

I ran into a problem with an ASP.NET 5 Web API project running as a docker container -- It started fine, and I could hit the api using curl from inside the container, but not from a separate, linked c…
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live reloading golang server with gulp and browser-sync

It's been a while since I've posted anything, primarily because I just started a new job! I'm working on Dev Ops tools for multiple development teams to use across the organization. They are in the pr…
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How to use free LetsEncrypt SSL certificates with Docker and jwilder/nginx-proxy

In my last post, I talked a little bit about the magical ease-of-use that comes from Jason Wilder's nginx-proxy Docker container, which I use to route subdomains on sequentialread.com. Well, today I…
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Now with comments, more playing with Docker

I didn't want to launch the blog without comments, but I did it anyway, because I'd started working on a DIY self-hosted solution and didn't want to use disqus or any of the other paid / ad-driven / d…
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Assorted NoSQL Thoughts: Git, Datomic, and Fact Accretion

Once upon a time, I worked for a company that loved SQL Server and normalized data. They loved normalization because it made their operational data store "alive", that is, no matter what dat…
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Stream processing using the Disruptor with C# and .NET

This was a blog post I wrote for my employer's blog back when I was a "consultant". In my last post I introduced the Disruptor pattern — a way of writing efficient, processor friendly code…