2021

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Cryptocurrency: Mining, Staking and the Pursuit of Value

I have dipped my toe into cryptocurrency for quite a while. I’ve even made some pretty good returns, but to say I understand cryptocurrency – that’s a bridge too far at the moment. I am going to write this post to explain my current understanding and then I am looking for feedback to help translate

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Customize VS Code Kimbie Dark Theme Appearance

For those in the dark-theme club (AKA, protecting our retinas, and otherwise into the reduced power consumption that comes along with increasing the longevity of our retinas), I found the Kimbie Dark theme to be a nice change of pace from straight-up Black/Grey. Check it out: It’s got a nice coffee/mocha vibe to it, and

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Hooray for Writing

Part 0: BLUF This post explores some reasons to invite more writing time into your life’s journey, and some tactics for using writing to up your personal and professional game, even in an era of tighter timelines and shorter attention spans. Summary in blue. Part I: Some reasons to love writing Anyone who knows me

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Ancient Monty Python Aliens Created Life

This is going to be an anything but scientific frolic through some things that have bugged me when people talk about evolution. Things that don’t add up. I am cool with being proven wrong, because I don’t try to hold any beliefs strongly enough that I threaten my identity letting them go. If there is

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My Weirdest, Benign COVID-Influenced Day

I have heard some crazy stories from people who have survived far more intense scenarios, and yet, I am compelled, if only out of noir pandemic comedy, to share the story of this day. Onsite Requirement My office has a requirement that folks be on site one day a week. That’s pretty darn good, compared

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Free Let’s Encrypt SSL for cPanel using acme.sh

TLDR VERSION This article shortcuts how to get SSL certs from Let’s Encrypt (or ZeroSSL) issued and deployed for your cPanel hosted websites (domain or addon domains), using acme.sh. The commands to setup and configure acme.sh in cPanel are here. But once acme.sh is running via SSH or within cPanel terminal, there’s just 2 key

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