When it comes to choosing candidates in local elections, I always think, “Is this someone who, when in office, would do what my neighbors and I would do?” I don’t have a litmus test or expect complete agreement, but I do expect to be thoughtfully represented and properly informed. That means I look for candidates… Read More »
The estimated 7 million people who turned out for the October 2025 “No Kings” protests in 2,700 communities across the United States added up to a record crowd seeking to protest the actions of a sitting president. It points to a lot of discontent and motivation by citizens frustrated with the state of national politics,… Read More »
My latest book, Daring to Run, a detailed look at my first run for mayor of Elmira, N.Y., is now available for pre-order from SUNY Press. Just months after a disappointing national election, the end of my brief marriage, and my city’s lack of response to a neighborhood crack house, I decided enough was enough.… Read More »
I’m excited to announce the release of my book, Practical Linux DevOps from Apress! It’s a guide to creating and using your own lab to get started with Linux and DevOps concepts. https://amzn.to/3NsLH39
When a casual summer evening rapidly dissolved into a hot mess, I knew something was wrong. My book The Bruxism Proxy details my experience and the early misdiagnosis that it was all due to stress. I was no longer an immortal twenty-something, but the victim of a strange, incurable disease I’d never heard of that… Read More »
My cat Tucker is a somewhat predictable animal who likes to curl up in predictable spots around the house, so he’s the perfect subject for surreptitious video surveillance and just the sort of motivating force I needed to rework a Raspberry Pi project I’d been putting off for some time. [Read more]
I’ve always been a bit hesitant to add cellular networking to my IoT projects because I figured the cost of bandwidth and the hardware requirements were more trouble than they were worth. But after some experimentation, I got over my fears and found cellular wasn’t nearly as expensive or as complicated as I thought. [Read… Read More »
One of the things I like best about running a Linux desktop is the bash shell, which is great for connecting to other boxes, editing files, running Docker containers — you name it. So, when Microsoft introduced the bash shell for Windows 10, I was skeptical. After all, I’ve used cmd.exe for years and it’s… Read More »
Full Stack developers are IT practitioners who can, in a word, do it all. They can set up web servers and databases, write and test code, and deliver a final project. In my latest article for Linux Journal, I explain the process by showing you how to build a web application for tracking books you’ve… Read More »
Every once in a while, I come across a concept that strikes me as a game-changer, and Kubermesh is one. The idea, put into action by the folks at Ocado Technology, uses Google’s Kubernetes, existing hardware and containers to deploy services across a mesh network instead of standing up dedicated servers in a data center.… Read More »