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1. Progress, Not Perfection

   With thanks to Arnold, Adam, and Ketch for the pointers.

   I recently finished The Foundation workout program in Arnold's Pump Club. This is a 90-day workout program with multiple workouts per week.

   I finished it after ten months.

   Injuries, sickness, work schedule, life events. There was always something slowing me …

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2. It's Always the Service

   I love reading. I love the idea of books, to the point that a small, always ongoing vanity project of mine is a library of books I find special. This means there are always a few books in flight (I should probably practice better focus and work on only one …

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3. Your Core Skillset

   For the longest time, Garmin was "the GPS company". They sold those bricks that you mount on your car dashboard and would help you get from Point A to Point B. They even had custom voice packs you could buy; and this was before it was easy to generate it …

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4. Your Responsibility to the Audience

   When you're the one talking, all eyes are on you. This means several things:

   • Everyone showed up to accomplish something.
   • We all dedicated this time to this thing.
   • We chose to be here instead of anywhere else.

   It doesn't matter if it's a three-person meeting to decide on today's work …

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5. Build It, but it's not Enough

   You can build the best thing, do your best work. But if no one notices, it doesn't mean anything.

   Let me try to illustrate with a story. We were on a vacation to Disneyworld years ago. Disney, if you weren't aware, has engineered just about all the efficiency out of …

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6. In Defense of Convenience

   When there's a setback, a technical bump in the road, people who don't really care will dismiss the problem with "it's just an inconvenience". The subtext is "grow up, deal with it".

   But convenience has knock-on effects: - convenient things get done often, because they're easy to do - convenient things free …

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7. Self-Signed Certs with Subject Alt Names

   Problem

   We need to create self-signed certs. But because browsers/tools are finally enforcing what they said they would for years, we have to put the CN into the list of SANs for the cert. This is non-negotiable.

   That means we have to use the x509v3 extensions. Which is highly …

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8. Strategic vs Tactical

   Entire books have been written on the topic of Strategic vs Tactical. At the risk of creating more noise, I'd like to add my experience to the collection.

   Talking with Tom Hatch about, well, a lot of things, this topic came up and he had the best illustration. I'm sure …

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9. Automatic Updates for Raspberry Pi's

   Problem

   Raspberry Pi's are great but they don't automatically update themselves. And once we've figured out how to make them do whatever it is we wanted them to do, we're not likely to log back in just for updates.

   We need to set the machine to update itself.

   Solution

   There …

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