• distraction is easy

    Beginning this post was difficult today. Not because there isn’t plenty to write about but because there is so much to consume. This morning I checked email, slack and messages, selected and watched two youtube videos on a topic I need to know and made tea. With the exception of the tea, each of those…

  • resumes

    I had lunch with a former colleague yesterday. As is often the case, at some point, the conversation turned to the question of “what I am up to” which is often shorthand “what are you doing to make money”. If the former question is difficult to encapsulate, the latter is somewhat bleak – as the…

  • almost missed today

    Making new habits can be difficult. I almost missed posting today because I was focusing on the upcoming day overall. Not what I needed to do immediately. Distractions are plentiful and easy to pursue. The key is to not follow them down the rabbit hole. Tasks are completed because we focus on them. Where you…

  • Certificates

    I’ve chosen to avoid running a certificate server on my homelab. It isn’t that I don’t understand the importance of security – I do. It is just that the isolation and configuration of my network makes using something like Let’s Encrypt complicated and I have been unwilling to punch a hole in my firewall to…