Greg Herlein

After 13.5 years I’m no longer using Twitter.

Three months since I posted, so here’s some random thoughts and updates.

What’s old is new again: I’ve joined BrightSign as their Head of Software Engineering!

Imagine my surprise when I could not sudo! Wait, what?

Tl;dr: The AWS Cookbook is a must have addition to your reference library. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author.

Tl;dr: read the web instead of Linux for Networking Professionals. This book is a broad, shallow coverage that is probably more easily learned from web pages for free.

Speed, cost and quality are considered the vectors that you can control. If you are moving to cloud to get the “ilities” that comprise quality, you need to seriously consider Cognitive Load.

I added Clicky web analytics to my blog (running hugo)

Tl/Dr: It’s on the network! But in my analysis, I fell victim to my own bias.

Picking up from last weekend, I play with the ESP32-POE-EA board from Olimex using the Espressif FreeRTOS ESP-IDF Framework.

Been awhile, head spinning, took some time to just play.