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Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Tips for organizing Sway keybindings

Here's how I set up my keybindings for the Sway window manager for Linux. Most of the tips here would apply to any keyboard, but let's get one detail out of the way first that's specific to 40% keyboards like the Corne. It doesn&

How not to have a 45-hour outage like GigabitNow

How not to have a 45-hour outage like GigabitNow

My home internet was recently restored after a 45-hour outage of my GigabitNow service in Bloomington, Indiana. This is the worst internet service provider outage I've experienced in 30 years. The outage apparently affected only my account. Part of my job is maximizing uptime for internet services, so

On-Call Credos

On-Call Credos

I've been in on-call rotations for more than a decade. When computers I manage have a problem, they page my team 24/7 for help. I use these credos so being on-call goes as smoothly as possible. Find out before the customer does Whether the customer is internal

Garmin Fenix 5 Plus at work

How to replace the battery in a Garmin Fenix 5 Plus watch

The Garmin Fenix 5 Plus was released in 2018 and is still a great running watch in 2023. Some features include heat rate tracking, VO2 max, recovery advisor, payments and offline music. There's also my favorite: offline maps and navigation. When I bought a used Fenix 5 Plus

A dozen automations and DevOps practices I replaced with Ansible

A dozen automations and DevOps practices I replaced with Ansible

Ansible is an automation tool that can you run from your laptop or a server to automate tasks across many servers. It's simple enough to use for personal tasks, flexible enough to introduce incrementally, and powerful enough to scale. As I learned to "think an Ansible"

Ghost as blog and newsletter software for a local political campaign

Ghost as blog and newsletter software for a local political campaign

Yesterday Hopi Stosberg won her primary in a location election. I volunteered to setup web software for her. Here's what worked. Local campaign software goals In this small, local campaign there was no paid staff, so the candidate would be posting website content and sending out newsletters herself,

My Ghost Headline theme fork with dark mode

This blog is powered by the free, open source Ghost blogging software. Why I like the Headline theme For my personal site I wanted a dark mode theme that would work well for writing about a range of unrelated topics. I also go for months without writing anything at all,