https://fingers.cx/ Recent content on Fingers Crossed Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us &copy; 2020 | Follow on <a href="https://twitter.com/alexlovelltroy" target="_blank">Twitter</a> ♥ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:59:06 -0400 https://fingers.cx/about/ Sun, 21 Jun 2020 22:46:48 -0400 https://fingers.cx/about/ This is the personal blog for Alex Lovell-Troy. https://fingers.cx/post/wfh_meeting_audio/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:59:06 -0400 https://fingers.cx/post/wfh_meeting_audio/ I&rsquo;ve been doing remote meetings for roughly fifteen years now. Here&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve found works for me and why. Audio Setup I find that my ears get tired using headphones all day so I&rsquo;ve switched over the past few years to not using a headset. To avoid background noise and feedback when not fully isolating the sound, there are a few tricks. The Gear Shure BETA 58A https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Beta58a--shure-beta-58a-supercardioid-dynamic-vocal-microphone The standard vocal microphone that lots of bands use. https://fingers.cx/post/netbox-openbsd/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 09:54:33 -0400 https://fingers.cx/post/netbox-openbsd/ Netbox is an inventory tool for keeping track of things like racks and servers. While it is powerful enough to account for small to medium sized data centers, it also works well for homelabs. I keep my inventory of test hardware in Netbox and use it to plan network changes before I start actually changing cabling and settings. Since Netbox is a django application, it will happily run anywhere python will run. https://fingers.cx/archives/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/archives/ https://fingers.cx/post/apu-homelab/ Sun, 15 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/apu-homelab/ I like to tinker with lots of physical nics. The apu4d4 boards are cheap and excellent for tinkering https://fingers.cx/post/cicd-databases/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/cicd-databases/ The following post was originally shared on the Pythian Blog Pythian specializes in continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for enterprise applications. Our customers call us when they are ready to decompose their monolithic codebases and we help them implement containerized microservices and speed up deployment. When we take on these projects, we are often asked the same question: How can we move our database changes as fast as our code changes? https://fingers.cx/post/how-do-machines-learn/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/how-do-machines-learn/ The following post was originally shared on the Pythian Blog Artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science are all terms that get thrown around a lot these days. While it’s easy to get into hair-splitting arguments about the distinctions between them, really they refer to the same thing: teaching machines to learn, think and convert data into knowledge. Harnessing machines’ massive computational capabilities will allow organizations to do deeper, broader analyses faster than ever before, automate processes with real intelligence, and make better decisions more confidently. https://fingers.cx/post/mnemonic-as-a-service/ Sat, 06 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/mnemonic-as-a-service/ Be careful choosing a wordlist for your server names. Not all are created equal. https://fingers.cx/post/small-linux-containers/ Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/small-linux-containers/ containerization&hellip; are you doing it wrong? https://fingers.cx/post/meetings-rule/ Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://fingers.cx/post/meetings-rule/ Five rules that help make meetings better