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Staring my Home Lab
For a while now I’ve been looking to get a proper home NAS (Network Attached Storage) device to bolster the home office. I know all too well the pain of losing data to corrupted hard drives, lost USB keys or, in one case, an IDE drive in a world of SATA connections (which is another story to investigate). To try and prevent further losses of data, I’ve been looking to adopt the 3-2-1 philosophy of data backups. Continue readingDon't Use Hyphens in Environmental Variables
tl;dr: As the title says, don’t use hyphens in environment variables, use underscores instead. A large part of my job is working on CI pipelines and the automation of the build and deployment of software. This means that I spend a lot of time working with environment variables and the configuration of the tools that I use. Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 6 of them trying to find out why a bash script I was working on was failing to reconcile the value of a variable. Continue reading
Soundcloud Streaming
I started working on an Alexa skill recently to stream a podcast series from soundcloud. While there is a wealth of developer documentation on the site, this is one of the few services I’ve ever encountered that seems to be intent on crippling developer interactions. Currently developer registrations are closed and most of the existing documentation is filled with information that is no longer valid. As a result, there are a number of difficulties in trying to find a way to stream from soundcloud. Continue readingI’ve been slow to update this, but that’s because I’ve spent the last few months finishing up in one job and starting a new one! New posts incoming!
