Screaming Into the Void

When I look across different online mediums I find myself disconnected from the world, unable to find genuine connection with the conversations being had. How peculiar an experience in a world that is supposed to be so connected. I thought all the platforms were going to connect us? Everyone seems to be an expert, and…

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SQL: Delete all Rows with “foo” in the String

Let’s say you’re building something cool and you try to share this amazing thing with a friend. Then that friend decides to blow your DB up with useless entries. Because that is what friends do. In such a scenario, you might end up with something like this: select count(*) from table; +———-+ | count(*) |…

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Creating a Keystore for Android Apps on Windows

If you’re building Android apps for the Android or Amazon Playstore you will need to sign your apps with a certificate. To do this, you will need a Keystore file. There are a lot of instructions on how to do this on a Mac, but if you’re on a Windows machine it’s a labyrinth of…

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Working with Merge Conflicts in Git

There are instances while working with a shared repo that your Pull Request will hit a conflict with the master repo and that will prevent your PR from being merged. The easiest way to resolve this is going to be via your terminal. Step 1 – Ensure you are working with the master repo (the…

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Three Things that DNS Outages Teach Administrator

Rarely do you wake up thinking to yourself, “wonder how my DNS is doing today?” but I can guarantee it’s been the root cause of one, or two, sleepless nights, “gah, DNS again… grrrrr“. There is no better example than today’s outage with Register.com and Network Solutions in which customers were told to expect outages…

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