…because prayer is not inherently religious I’m sharing a “prayer” that I stumbled upon years ago. I went looking for it today because I’ve been in need of a reminder. With everything going on in the world right now, we could all use some measure of this kind of peace. …

(co-authored with Richard Malone - BTBlock and Hambardzum Kaghketsyan - SmartGateVC. Vol 1 of the article is here). Our first article introduced the TCVC concept and its potential shift in early stage investment paradigms. We believe this change to be necessary, and more importantly, we believe it to be inevitable. …

Running block production nodes is no different than operating any other sort of datacenter infrastructure. As a datacenter veteran, I’ve got a long list of concerns regarding the trustworthiness of EOS block producers and block producer candidates. For context, here’s a summary of things I’ve done and which disciplines of…

“DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process…” — I’ve noticed that lots of us in the tech community keep fumbling over the same point. It’s more of a question — or rather a discussion — than a point. I think I’ve finally cracked a working definition for myself. So I’m going to ramble about that. If you feel…

…it’s time to face the inevitable. — Why? I officially started my journey in IT back in 2010. I took an entry-level job as a NOC technician, at the lowest possible pay grade. It was terrible, grueling, challenging, educational, and wonderful. The pay was as low as you could expect it to be, and there were no benefits…

Being old(er) is fucking awesome. — I remember being 13 (yeah that was a really fucking long time ago), throwing around my freshly acquired, shitty teenage attitude at my family by saying things like, “I can’t wait to turn 16 and get my license.” Naturally, the implicit notion there was that I’d be liberated from my…

** Note: In this article, I’ll be talking about solutions for MySQL (5.6+), Percona Server (5.5.10+) or MariaDB (10.0+) You could say that the purpose of this post is more selfish than it is helpful, since this is here to memorialize something I hope never to forget. Sometimes, having to…

“Security is a not a product, but a process.” — No anecdotal introductions for this article. Security is a very, very serious topic. “InfoSec” (and all of its appendant subdivisions) is an area of technical operations that I’ve been exposed to since the very beginning of my career. …

You don’t know Git? Learn (g)it. Seriously. Learn it. …but first, I have to waste a few minutes on introductions My first exposure to any sort of source control tool was in 2010, when a managed client at the datacenter I worked in asked me to team up with them on a deployment, and they had me install & learn the…