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Now at micro.blog: Switching to micro.blog. The 1 dollar a month plan is to nice to pass up, especially to play around with. So redirecting mrd.dev to micro.blog.

The Canary Knife: The canary knife is a cheap tool that I use everyday. Previously I had several very sharp, reasonably nice knifes that I used to cut open boxes and break them down. This ranged anywhere from a CRKT to actual box cutter knives. None of them have been as useful as this one. I have had this knife for 6 …

P7 / P3 Espro French Press: Trying to blog more often and the easiest thing to do are these short reviews. Today its the Espro French Press, I have used the P3/P7 for roughly 9 years. Along with my grinder and kettle it is the most used tool in my kitchen. Every morning I make a pot of french press, is pot the right word? and …

Stories that stick with you, Marvelous Bob: Long ago in the early 2000s, I spent a fair amount of time reading comics and stories. Questionable Content, Penny Arcade and others all fall into this category. One that will jump in my brain and require a nostalgic dopamine kick is the story of marvelous bob. Sadly it only exists in wayback …

Went to the eminence ren faire and loved this A A Ron name. The grilled cheese was good but needed something to elevate it!

Dungeons and Dragons and why I love FoundryVTT: A bit of background I currently am involved in 3 campaigns that each virtually meets 2-3 times a month. Pre pandemic I had one group that met in person but when the pandemic started we transitioned to virtual. This turned out to be a boon for our playing schedule. Getting everyone together in one …

Starting Neovim: Ten years ago I was an emacs guy, but since then I haven’t used a command line text editor daily. If I log into a remote machine I will usually use nano to make any small edits. After doing some code pairing with someone using Neovim I decided to give it a try. My setup is based around golang …

Grafana - 2 months in: I have been at Grafana for roughly 2 months and so far its been a fantastic learning opportunity. For the past 15 years of my career I have worked in large scale enterprise to enterprise solutions doing closed work in the dotnet ecosystem. At Grafana I am working on an open source project Grafana …

Go - A new language: New job with Grafana that will require me to use a new language, Go. Granted I played with Go about 4 years ago but that wasn’t really a deep dive. Instead I am taking the month between my old job and new to do a deep dive into Go! Really excited about both the new job and learning a new language. I …

Time Series - Playing Around: Why? I wanted to play with Time Series for a role I am interviewing for, and I wanted to do it by using a lot of common constructs and building it myself. There is no way this is production ready, nor is it bulletproof in anyway. Its for fun! You can find all the code at the github here. Some …

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Fancy Coffee: Found my way to LA Grange roasters for some fancy coffee

Macbook Air 2011: I have had the Air for a little less than a week. To sum it up in one quick statement, The best computer I have ever used. Now for a longer explanation. I bought the lowest end 13.3” Macbook Air. I debated over a 256gb i7 version but wanted to limit myself some. Sounds odd, but I wanted to limit …

AKA Viking: The AKA Viking, an open bolt, pneumatic electro. That basically describes the Viking and to be honest almost every other electro on the market. In this world of dozens of high class electros each marker tries to differentiate themselves with some attribute or some selling point above the others, the …