Karl's Blog

  1. 2019

    1. Personal DevOps

      April 25, 2019

      DevOps is all about trying to improve a team's productivity, but sometimes, the best place to start is with ourselves.

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  2. 2018

    1. Getting Started with i3

      May 28, 2018

      Switching to i3 for laptop portability.

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  3. 2017

    1. Google Voice: A Rant

      March 28, 2017

      In which I rant about problems with Android's Google Voice feature.

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    2. Baltimore DevOpsDays 2017

      March 7, 2017

      Notes and live blog of this inaugural two-day event here in Baltimore.

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  4. 2016

    1. Rule #1: Always Be Learning

      June 14, 2016

      What do I want to convey to you more than anything else? There's really only one guideline for your career that I'm convinced is 100% completely absolute, and it's this…

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    2. Easy Peasy Maven Central

      May 12, 2016

      I needed to push some tiny little open source projects of mine to Maven Central. I'd been avoiding this because I figured it'd be a huge hassle. Turns out, no: it's easy!

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    3. Content Trade Deficit

      May 10, 2016

      I've mostly been a knowledge vampire: I've consumed tons of blogs, articles, and other awesome content posted by awesome people but I haven't really contributed much back to those kind internet strangers.

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  5. 2015

    1. Software Project Estimation: Rebuilding Trust

      August 16, 2015

      Let's be honest here: most developers have an incredibly unprofessional attitude towards project planning and estimation. They don't like it, they really wish it'd just go away, and they may even claim it's impossible.

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    2. What On Earth Was I Thinking?

      July 27, 2015

      What on earth was I thinking, deciding to spend my free time building a Rock-Paper-Scissors game, of all things‽ Good question!

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  6. 2013

    1. Puppet: First Impressions

      September 1, 2013

      Apache Maven is a wonderful tool for tracking, storing, and making use of compiled libraries, including native libraries (e.g. DLLs). Getting these libraries into Maven is simple.

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  7. 2009

    1. Native Libraries: VCS and Maven

      September 5, 2009

      Apache Maven is a wonderful tool for tracking, storing, and making use of compiled libraries, including native libraries (e.g. DLLs). Getting these libraries into Maven is simple.

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    2. A sad tale of VPN troubles on Intrepid

      August 29, 2009

      I've now spent a few evenings this week debugging a VPN client error at home: "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests … Connection terminated. … Modem hangup"

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