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Lane Burley Light Without a Bite

Tobacco: burley Style: Aromatic Room Note: 2 - Mellow Cut: Loose Cut Top Flavor: Misc Flavor Intensity: 2 - Mellow Review 3/5 stars The mellow nature of this really saved the review here. The cut is what tanked it. Thoughts I want to start off with, I purchased 16 oz of what was supposed to be loose cut, but it seemed a lot closer to shag cut. I am not thrilled with the smoking experience of this type of cut. Regarding the smoke of the rest of the stats. Well they fit pretty well. I can’t complain too much there. The nicotine in this one seems to be on the lower side as I need more of it. However, with how easy of a smoke (beyond the shag cut) it is I am happy to go back to it often. This one will eat through your filter supply though. The gunk builds up quick on the filter and makes for very tight draws; this caused me to end up just smoking it without the filters.

Sunday, January 9, 2022 Read
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Life Update 2021

Well… so much for plans The best laid plans always seem to fail. Especially when you life is pivoting against the norm. Recently I made the decision that I needed to pursue some new pursits. This was helped by a friend of mine sharing a job posting sure, but it felt right. Usually I am scared to make decisions like this, or to even contemplate them. However, as I said, this just felt right. I applied, and sure enough they got me into an interview QUICK. I think it took less than a week. Within two weeks I had received an offer, and I quickly accepted it. I now have the job title of Senior Development/Operations Systems Engineer. Big long fancy title for, I the DevOps guy. YAY! My job will be to solely focus on how to optimize flows and manage the infrastructure for our developers.

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 Read
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No Code

Down the rabbit hole I kept hearing the term no-code thrown around recently, and I had the general idea of what it might be based on some research I had done to see how I could get my kids into programming. I just had not heard it called no code before. Then I saw a repo called nocode and had a good laugh about it. The description of this repo is, “The best way to write secure and reliable applications. Write nothing; deploy nowhere.”

Sunday, August 22, 2021 Read
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Maintenance Mode

Backstory What do you do when you are a small company and don’t want to have a multi regional roll out, but need to upgrade a core feature? I throw out a maintenance mode message. I would love to find a better way, but I have yet to find it. It would be wonderful if someone could point me in that direction, but for now, I will stick with this methodology.

Sunday, August 15, 2021 Read
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Change Jenkins URL from CLI

Where did I go wrong?! Well, as I stated in Disabling Jenkins Security I am not experienced in managing Jenkins servers to the degree that I would like. And so when I perform updates I like to create an AMI backup and spin that one up to be able to test upgrades of packages and Jenkins itself. Once I started up the AMI I tried to access it with it’s public dns record. The only issue was it kept redirecting me over to the production version’s domain name.

Thursday, August 5, 2021 Read
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Disabling Jenkins Security

The start to my troubles So I started my day off the other day making an AMI of a Jenkins server, because we needed to update the server and wanted to make sure that the updates didn’t break anything. I ran into two issues when I started; the first was I couldn’t access the GUI and the Second was once I could access the GUI I couldn’t login due to the domain not matching for Google. Given I have very little experience with managing Jenkins (AWS Codebuild for the win), I had to hunt down how I could disable the security settings from the command line and files without breaking anything.

Thursday, August 5, 2021 Read
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Why I blog

Who am I? Sometimes I don’t know who I am to an extent that I would be happy with the answer. At this time I am a father, a husband, a programmer, and an automation lover. I hate to see inefficient things in code when I know that there are so many better options out there. So why do I blog? Because I can. No seriously. I’m bored, and I need something better to do with my time then playing games that cause too much frustration, browsing social media until I feel like a zombie, or watch shows that just drag and can’t keep my attention. I figured this was a good way to get my thoughts out of my head and into a more active way of spending my time.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021 Read