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  • Chattanooga Signal Mountain Overlook

    A few shots testing the various iPhone 11 Pro’s various lenses Normal Telephoto Ultrawide

  • Squongo – How to build a document store in SQLite and Ruby

    Squongo is a ruby gem encapsulating WAL mode sqlite3 databases to provide an alternative to large document stores utilizing the JSON1 extension. It’s migrationless and provides the user with the ability to have many readers without locking the database while providing a save method that will simply enque on the writer process. It was born out of a

  • What OSS Consumers Owe You

    TL;DR at the bottom There’s been a lot of fuss about in the dev community about the “funding experiment” and I figured I’d toss in my 2 cents. There were some comments about consumers who don’t contribute back to OSS with money or time, and that “No one cool was upset” by this experiment. I was upset,

  • How to query sqlcipher encrypted databases with Ruby

    Last year I added support for building the sqlite3 ruby gem against sqlcipher allowing ruby apps to access and query sqlcipher encrypted databases. SQLCipher is simply a fork of sqlite, kept up-to-date with upstream, that provides 256 bit AES encrypted sqlite databases. It’s used heavily in mobile apps which was part of the inspiration for adding support as I wanted to be

  • Ruby rest-client Gem Hijacked

    We stand on the shoulders of giants, but the giants don’t use two factor auth. https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713

  • Toolless Frontend Starter

    I was so sick of needing so many dependencies, build tools, and various things to simply have a frontend project with JavaScript code. Looking at the landscape of supported technologies in current browsers and realized you can use CSS variables, ES Modules, and even change light/dark styles based on the user’s operating system theme preferences

  • Ducati Monster 821

    Finally finished all the mods to my 821 Monster. Mods:

  • Lookout Mountain Sunset

    Sunset from the Lookout Mountain Hang Gliding edge.

  • Drink Recipe – Banana Republic

    The Banana Republic is a drink I like to make that consists of banana cream rum, rumchatta and Looza Banana Juice.

  • macOS Keyboard Shortcuts Everyone Should Know

    These are the macOS keyboard shortcuts I use on a daily basis that I wish I knew from day one. I will keep this list updated as I discover cool shortcuts.