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.
Start at the beginning with the first post, about God and this blog, or read the latest posts below.
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Why I Quit Running June 2, 2020 - I was talking to my friend Pat the other day about why I stopped running seriously almost a decade ago. I told him, “the moment I crossed the finish line of my last marathon (the 2011 Houston Marathon), I knew I was done. People didn’t believe me when I told them afterwards, but in my […]
The Beauty of Explosions in the Sky and The World Is Not A Cold Dead Place March 28, 2020 - Everyone has their preferences, and I’m not here to change yours, or even to argue for mine. I’m no expert, or even particularly insightful, and I’ve even claimed not to listen to music because it can be too manipulative. But being a critic is easy, and creating beauty is hard, so when we find it […]
Migrating a Laravel application to Symfony April 15, 2019 - When I started at the day job about 6.5 years ago, I inherited a jumble of custom PHP/MySql web applications. One of my first goals, after migrating a Drupal 6 site to Drupal 7 (ugh!), was migrating the custom PHP applications to a coherent and supported framework. I evaluated a few smaller frameworks (Slim, F3), […]
Hitting some park jumps at Eldora February 24, 2019 - “Steeze”: adjective. “Style” and “ease”. Also known as “that which I lack.” Hit Eldora yesterday with Lili and had a blast lapping the lower mountain. Took on some of the medium jumps and made a video, found below. Sound on for cheesy music, else the lack of steeze is almost unwatchable. Related Content:Come Ski With […]
No Instagram: “follow” Instagram users without having your own account February 11, 2019 - I got rid of my Instagram account (and Facebook account) some time ago, but I’d still like to see photos from my wife and our dog, without being tracked or gamified into addiction. To do that, I was just visiting the Instagram website for each public user I wanted to view, but that was way […]
Loading Files to a Docker Container on Startup February 7, 2019 - I recently had the problem where I needed to load files into a Docker container, but only once, and only at the startup of that container. Specifically, these were signing certificates stored in an S3 bucket. Obviously (I hope), we don’t want to bake sensitive certificates and keys into a Docker image, so we need […]
Dockerizing PHP apps and deploying to AWS Fargate Part 1 February 6, 2019 - For the day job, I maintain four custom PHP apps in addition to several Drupal sites. Up until a couples months ago, each of the apps was hosted on-premise in LAMP virtual machines that our IT department maintains. With PHP 5.6 end-of-life at the end of 2018, the IT department decided it didn’t have the […]
Sometimes I Snowboard January 21, 2019 - If I could, I would just be a snowboard bum in the winter, and a beach bum in the summer, and hang out in between. Here’s a bad edit from New Year’s Day 2019 at Mary Jane/Winter Park. It’s probably better without sound :). Related Content:Come Ski With Me by Dv December 28, 2015 My […]
What’s the point? December 9, 2018 - What’s the point? I like watching football with Pat. I like snowboarding, but love it when I do it with someone else. Work is ok, but I like it most when I am learning new stuff. I love being around women. Dinner parties with friends are great. I love watching my boys in their activities. […]
Deploying Drupal 8 to Pantheon with CircleCI August 6, 2018 - I wrote about our Drupal, Pantheon, CircleCI development process at my day job awhile ago, and I recently gave a talk at work where I delved a little more deeply into the architecture and process. Here is a snippet of that talk. Related Content:Continuous Deployment: Drupal 8, Composer, Github,… by Dv April 17, 2018 I've […]