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Racknerd VPS running Caddy serving a Hugo generated static site. Site and content are created/edited in Emacs and rsynced to server. Took the default Hugo generated theme and tweak…

I switched from IT oriented work to being a real estate broker a few months ago. Start going to open houses. When the hosting broker isn't busy ask them about their career, what th…

No background in real estate other than as a client! I've been doing software consulting locally for a number of years. Prior to that I was doing database related development. (War…

Just started my new career as a real estate broker north of Seattle. Programming can go back to being mostly a hobby.

The Airship to Orbit concept [1] caught my attention a while ago. There's something rather elegant about floating one's way to (almost) orbit. [1] http://www.jpaerospace.com/

From experience in the Seattle area, if you are in the USA you can get yourself passes for state and/or federal parks. In Washington state for example with a Discover Pass ($30 ann…

Been down in the deep depression pit of darkness myself. Your career isn't worth losing your life. There's lots of good advice in these comments. Don't make any final decisions in …

When I was a teenager in the early 80s I both learned to fly (eventually becoming a flight instructor and charter pilot) and learned to program. There was definitely a synergy betw…

How interesting. I'm learning about healthy emotional boundaries. In the past there have been times I've been so synced up with another person's emotional state I thought their emo…

Location: Seattle Area Remote: Yes. Willing to relocate: Short term, project based. Happy to travel. Technologies: Application Security, Drones, Python, Pandas, SQL, Lisp, Emacs, L…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (I live in the Seattle Area) Contract or project based Information Security positions. Happy to travel up to 30%. Enthusiastically transitioning to Informatio…

Some improvement did come with age. Perspective is amazingly helpful. Along the way though I was able to find things that helped very noticeably. Some were physical, some were mind…

Please do not ever give up.

7.62x39 was going to be my bullet of choice. 10 years or so of depression was enough. Until I saw my 3 year old daughter down the hall while I was heading to the closet to get the …

Not long ago I discovered backups don't do any good if you delete them. The incident went down while I was wiping out my hard drive to do a fresh install of Fedora. I believe what …

Noted. That sounds good. Thanks!

Just found out I didn't get the job. Gave me solid feedback on strengths and weaknesses. I very much appreciate a transparent interview process.

Seriously considering putting a write up of how I repiped the natural gas lines in our house. One inch pipe to the utility room, valves on all tees and a stub for the meter so I co…

Last week, I finished 2-3 hours of on-site interviews which required a flight and an overnight stay after an initial phone screen, a phone technical interview, and a short technica…

Dual booting with Fedora. I voluntarily upgraded the Win 7 partition to give it a whirl a while back. They said I would have 30 days to go back. Less than 24 hours later ... Nope. …

Sounds fun! I've been thinking of ways and places to mix my database, software dev, and commercial pilot/flight instructor backgrounds.