As leaders, we spend a significant amount of time making decisions—big and small. From adjusting timelines to reallocating resources, these choices shape the trajectory of our teams and projects. But making a decision is just the first step. The real magic happens when we take the time to ensure our teams understand not only what was decided but, more importantly, why it was decided.
Continue ReadingI have a pretty old laptop, a Dell Precision m3800. During the holidays, it fell off a table and landed precisely on the power connector (don’t ask). The power connector was bent, the light indicator on it would not light up and the laptop wouldn’t charge. Fortunately such power supplies are used by other more recent models, so I was able to order one online.
Continue ReadingWith the somewhat recent announcement that Pivotal Tracker is shutting down, many of us who have relied on it for years are suddenly faced with a pressing need: how do we migrate all our project data before it’s gone for good? I found myself in this exact position, with an established project history that I couldn’t just leave behind.
Continue ReadingThis snippet provides commands for removing local branches that have been deleted from the remote, using both Powershell and bash. For both shells, run these commands: git fetch git remote prune origin Any remote branches that you have locally but that have been removed from the remote are now marked as gone.
Continue ReadingFOSDEM 2024 is happening this weekend and I’ve put together a list of interesting topics to review at a more leisurely pace. Alternatives to Confluence: BlueSpice, BookStack, DokuWiki, Foswiki, MediaWiki, OpenKM, Outline, PmWiki, Wiki.js and Xwiki. CICD Obervability CICD Observability 2 DIY Monitoring: Using clickhouse and grafana DIY RUM EVerest: An open source stack that manages all aspects of EV charging FreeIPA and FreeIPA connector for Keycloak Hardware devroom: Too many interesting topics to mention SpiceDB: Open source ReBAC.
Continue ReadingIntroducing SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) The SANE project lets you easily use a scanner from a Linux host. It supports many different brands and models of scanners and while it is mostly a library and server that provides access to a scanner, several clients are available that you can use to scan documents.
Continue ReadingSummary (tl;dr) Building a Hugo site using Azure DevOps and deploying to a Linux server is done by: Set up an SSH service connection in Azure DevOps Create a pipeline in Azure DevOps. The pipeline will need several steps: Install Hugo Build the site Deploy the built site Setting up an SSH Service Connection in Azure DevOps An SSH service connection is what will allow your hosted Azure DevOps agent to connect to your Linux based server using SSH.
Continue ReadingThe DOE runs a listserv server for mailing list management. Here are some notes on how to subscribe to their lists. Specifically the FSATECH mailing list. Send email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ED.GOV with the listserv commands: LIST - Lists (some of the) available lists on the server SUBSCRIBE FSATECH - Subscribe to the Federal Student Aid Tech list
Continue ReadingThese are the commands needed to set up SMTP forwarding for an email address in Office 365 using PowerShell. $UserCredential = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking Set-Mailbox -ForwardingSmtpAddress "" -Identity "" Remove-PSSession $Session
Continue ReadingSetting up Nginx on Windows is a straightforward endeavor. Unfortunately the information on how to do it end to end is not exactly in one spot, but actually sprinkled throughout the internet. So here we go, let’s put it all together. Installing Nginx Download the binary from the Nginx website. This is what the website looks like today and the latest version is 1.
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