Our words matter and its time for a change

Our words matter and its time for a change

This year presented humanity with challenges beyond our wildest imagination from a pandemic to a revived civil rights movement. The current protests are bringing a spotlight to bear on many traditions, monuments, and terminology that reinforces the terms white with...
Working Remotely in a Pandemic

Working Remotely in a Pandemic

Seattle is the epicenter of the U.S. novel coronavirus pandemic, and we are about two weeks ahead of the country in response and reaction to the contagion. Seattle is known for being a city of introverts, and the term Seattle Freeze represents our social interactions,...
Learning Node.js

Learning Node.js

Node.js has interested me for the past year, but with the program that I’ve been running for the past nine months I haven’t had a lot of time to invest in learning anything, let alone a new language and thought pattern. I’m excited that I’m...

The Cliff

Over the past seven months, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a security and compliance project that is truly once in a career. The project was of a scale that I have never worked on with a core program team over twelve people and an execution team that...
Chef NTPD Cookbook Released

Chef NTPD Cookbook Released

Automation has always been a passion of mine. I have worked with Microsoft’s Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in the past for Windows, but over the past few years I’ve wanted a cross-platform configuration tool. My search led me to Chef, and...