So, yes, I know. It's been a hot minute since I've posted something in here. In the last few months, I've managed to find myself a new job, stay relatively safe from COVID-19 (after a weird couple of days), and managed to find myself in a fair amount of stress.…
...and like that, a 5 year contractor position is gone. Oh well. I'm job hunting again right now, so, this should be fun.…
So, it's my goal to go to as many Michelin starred restaurants as I possibly can. The new list for Washington DC is out, so, I have updated my list of places that I want to go to: The Inn at Little Washington: Been there, loved it. Was hungry on…
If you haven't read it, I highly encourage you to do so: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html? The things that I want to really point out: NCMEC is horribly underfunded, and has issues keeping (and retaining) technical talent.Startups like Thorn (Which is Ashton…
So, apparently one of my jobs failed to tell me that it was a cleared position. Here's my issue...I haven't held a security clearance in almost 10 years, and I honestly have zero intention of going through that process again. Scratch one job off of my list. Also, the…
Since my contract at my current company is coming up in the end of September, I started looking for a new gig this month. A few things were really important to me: Finding a job that had some upward mobility. Finding a job that had decent benefits Finding a job…
As many of you know, I don't make it a secret that I'm not an amazing front-end guy. However, since I have a mantra of "test all the things" that I'm working on, when I have to do front end work, it's my goal to test everything. I start by…
If you haven't used Gitlab's Auto Devops product yet, and you're in the DevOps or CI/CD space, you're really missing out on the convenience that the Review App can bring. In order to get started, you'll need a few things: A Digital Ocean Account. A little bit of working…