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Shapeoko 3 CNC Machine

A couple of weeks ago I recieved my new Shapeoko 3 CNC Machine. It's a kit, so some assembly was requried. Having only evenings, after the kids are asleep, to work on my hobbies, it took me 2 or 3 nights to get the machine assemblied. Every thing was pretty

Docker

So many cool technologies, so little time. For the first half of 2015 I've worked to exponentially expand the software team I work on to over 100 people. This has brought of changes organizationally (another topic), and now requires that we make changed to our application architecture to allow such

I got hacked

Today I got an email from the nice sysadmins at Rimuhosting telling me that my VPS had been hacked, and the hacker installed a root level exploit. I'd like to thank the Rimuhosting sysadmins for there quick response. They identified excessive network traffic coming from my host, investigated, shutdown my

iBeacon

So I had a Raspberry Pi kicking around and it was just screaming to be used for a new project. Previously I had set it up as a VPN server to access my home network when I was away. Alas, things have changed, and a VPN is no longer needed,

What interests me now in software

As a software developer I continually check out what's new in software. Whether it is a programming language, framework, or application, I love checking things out and seeing how they might help me, or teach me something new. Here's what I'm looking at now. * Clojure - I steered clear of

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