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The POPCAST Episode 76

The POPCAST Episode 76

I had a great time with Dan on this episode of The POPCAST.

Open Source

List the Azure Virtual Machines Available

Get a list of the different VM base images available on Azure.

Cloud
Bash Helpers for Quick Installs

Bash Helpers for Quick Installs

This bash setup is the latest evolution of my quest to make a new system install as fast as possible.

Linux
Byobu on WSL

Byobu on WSL

Make your terminal life easier with Byobu - a frontend for tmux and screen

Linux
Egg Bites

Egg Bites

This post is a change from the usual technical content. I made my own Egg Bites this morning, inspired by the delicious ones I like to get at Starbucks.

Recipes
Organizing Documents with Some AI, ML, and Elbow Grease

Organizing Documents with Some AI, ML, and Elbow Grease

In this first post of (likely) a multi-part series I'm going to discuss how I am using machine learning, AI, and good old-fashioned elbow grease to make sense of the 3000 files in my `~/Documents/Unfiled` directory.

AI/ML
Getting Crazy with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Getting Crazy with Windows Subsystem for Linux

Use WSL to create isolated development environments.

Windows
Learn With Me: Moving Gophercon to Azure

Learn With Me: Moving Gophercon to Azure

While brainstorming ways to learn about all that Azure has to offer an idea occurred to me: Why not move Gophercon over to Azure as a learning tool.

Go
Switching - Irony and Operating Systems

Switching - Irony and Operating Systems

TLDR; I've traded in my Mac on a Surface Pro. Here's why...

Windows
Go 1.17 Released

Go 1.17 Released

Release day is always fun, and Go releases get me pretty excited. The 1.7 release is especially nice, so I'm going to mention some of my favorite changes in this release.

Go
Running i3 Window Manager on Bash for Windows

Running i3 Window Manager on Bash for Windows

That might be the longest title for a blog post ever, but it's kind of hard to describe what's going on here if you're not familiar with the latest updates from Microsoft land.

Windows
Old Dogs

Old Dogs

For 15 or more years I have told myself that I can't do frontend web work. I remember seeing a presentation from a co-worker on CSS in 2003 or so, and thinking it was just too complicated.

Web
New Tricks

New Tricks

Notes as I learn modern front-end development

Web
Tasty Worms

Tasty Worms

A coworker sent me a link to this recipe and I have to share it. It's the tastiest looking sandworm ever.

Recipes

Caddy and Let's Encrypt

I spent all of 5 minutes configuring Caddy [https://caddyserver.com] to automatically pull content from github, post-process it with hugo [http://gohugo.io] and serve it up with fresh SSL/TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt. When you think about it, that's pretty damned amazing. Caddy already made web serving easy. It powers everything I do now: gopheracademy.com, gophercon.com and a dozen more. Add hugo to the mix and you have a really powerful publishing platform that is fully automated with

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