This is my blog. A knob log. Knob blog has been around since 2006. It used to be mostly about running, then it was dead, then some lame technobabble stuff, and now we’ll see where it goes.
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Continuous Deployment: Drupal 8, Composer, Github, Pantheon and CircleCI April 17, 2018 - I’ve been doing some pretty cool work with Drupal 8, Composer, Github, Pantheon and CircleCI around Continuous Integration and Deployment at the day job. Well, not sure you can call Drupal “cool”, but the rest of it is kind of neat, so thought I’d share here. So, we’ve got a pretty big project where we […]
MariaDB or MySQL Root Password Struggles on Debian/Ubuntu March 14, 2018 - Had a difficult time authenticating to a newly installed MariaDB 10.1 instance on Debian 9 (Stretch) recently, wasting a couple of hours and some precious late-night sanity, so I wanted to document that here for myself later, and anyone else who might run across this. As part of a learning exercise I wanted to install […]
Nice Run and Awesome Pic December 12, 2017 - So I recently removed myself from most social media. Well, Facebook and Instagram. I haven’t missed them at all. I can still see Juiskie’s Insta and every now and again she’ll show me something on Facebook from the family, but otherwise those platforms are just a sink hole. But what I have done is opened […]
Another Little Workout December 6, 2017 - Another little workout today, 6x643m, each in around 2:35-ish. If that seems an odd distance, it is. So I had the idea to do 800 repeats today, and figured I’d hop over to Waneka Lake where there are mile markers. The trail around the lake is 1.2 miles, and well, I thought there were 1/4 […]
Hard, not Hard, Doing it Again December 4, 2017 - I ran pretty hard this morning, and rather enjoyed it. Feels good to hurt a little bit, feel some pain and want to quit, and not do it. Four miles total, with a two mile tempo to end it. Sounds so lame when I write it out, but you gotta start somewhere, right? Back in […]
Tweet Tweet, Josheli Tweets November 28, 2017 - For no good reason I wrote a little code to tweet out random posts from this very WordPress blog. I don’t tweet much anyway, and I just wanted to see something on my timeline, plus maybe get a little link love back to the Knob. It’s also interesting to go back in time and read […]
Gobble, Gobble: Louisville Turkey Trot 5k November 25, 2017 - There was no reason for running a Turkey Trot, other than it was free and I could ride my bike to the race. We moved last year to a new house in a new town just outside of Boulder, and well, the Turkey Trot was only a couple miles away from us, so I rode […]
Simple Google Photos: A WordPress Plugin November 21, 2017 - So I wrote a WordPress plugin to display photos from a public album on Google Photos. You can also get it on Github. You can see the result below, or over there –>, on the right sidebar, near the bottom. That’s all it does, it goes and gets the latest photos from an album in […]
US Soccer is a shit show and makes me sad November 17, 2017 - So let’s recap: Men’s national team failed to qualify the 2018 World Cup. The U23 Men’s team has failed to qualify for the last two Olympics. Columbus Crew is possibly moving to Austin/holding Columbus hostage for a new stadium. NASL is suing USSF for denying the NASL Division 2 sanctioning. Youth clubs are suing USSF […]
Still running? Still running. November 16, 2017 - It’s been almost ten years since I ran my first marathon. I don’t think the Dallas White Rock Marathon still exists, but it was an emotional day for me so I’ll always think fondly on that race. It’s got me thinking about running, my history, my present, my future of running. About three years after […]