I recently installed the XFCE edition of Manajaro on VMware Workstation. The install itself was painless, but I ended up needing to make a few tweaks before everything worked as expected on VMware. This guide will walk you through the changes that were made.…
If you've stumbled across this article, it's likely because you've been trying to get Docker, docker-compose, and NVIDIA all working together nicely. It's one of those rabbit holes where you think you're this close to finding the correct answer, but never quite do. This article might help.…
Splunk has a fairly robust API. However, you'll occasionally get into situations where you need the data exported out of Splunk as syslog. This guide walks you through connecting to Splunk with Apache NiFi, pulling data in batches from Splunk via the API, and sending it out as syslog from NiFi.…
Part of me always cringes when I see the "green text bubble" pop up on my phone. Why? It means it was sent in the clear using a protocol that was invented in the 1980s. Enter Signal: the free, open-source, encrypted, and multi-platform chat client.…
RFPs are a simple fact of the business: you will have to answer them, and some will be better than others. However, over the last 5-10 years, I’ve watched as RFPs have become progressively more convoluted and irrelevant to the problem that the business is attempting to solve.…
This article covers my latest iteration of productivity tools and methods, with my latest being Notion in combination with Nebo.…
One of the pain points of Elasticsearch has always been Elasticsearch DSL. This will show you how you how to obtain the DSL from a simple Elasticsearch query.…
I've recently been switching between Chrome, Edge, and Firefox just because it's been a while since I'd used Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has done a great job with Edge, but figured I'd see what changed with the others after running into a few Edge oddities. I then realized it'd been…