God became a man.He experienced life.A life without sin. He, unworthily,Received punishment for sin.God the Son had died. Three days have now passed.And Jesus did not stay deadHe came back to life. It was His power.Without the help of others.Life came back to Him. By resurrection,Jesus says, “Place trust in me.”“I make all things new.” […]
It is impossible to define a complex thought with one sentence. Even the previous sentence demands further information. What kind of thoughts do I mean? What is the reasoning for saying such a thing? Context adds further information to the reasoning behind such a statement. It also sets the stage for the real reason for […]
A review of ChatGPT by asking it a question about the love expressed in John 3:16.
The painfully slow death of social media is pushing the masses back into our blog-o-spheres. In 2 years, the only people doing social media will be those who are not technical enough to click a one-button wordpress/ghost install and pay $5/month from a hosting provider.Of course, there will be the faithful few who still insist […]
At first glance, the reMarkable seemed expensive for a one show pony. Replacing a pad of paper for notes was its only selling point and truly main focus. Could it really fit my use case and deliver an experience I needed? As one who regularly types notes and prints them for use in public speaking, […]
As Containers have progressed, Docker has stood out as the defacto standard. As many of the laggards are coming up to speed, Dockerfiles can be seen in many open source repositories. With the addition to that, I have seen a few repos with a Dockerfile-prod, Dockerfile-dev, Dockerfile-test, etc. Additionally, you find an IF clause in […]
As a step further to my previous post, I have created a boilerplate for future WordPress projects. It can be accessed at https://github.com/andrewwippler/WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate. To quickly start a WordPress environment, simply run the following commands: git clone git@github.com:andrewwippler/WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate.git cd WordPress-Containerization-Boilerplate/ docker-compose up and by visiting http://localhost:8080 More instructions are in the repo README. Happy Plugin/Theme development.
WordPress is amazingly popular considering how antiquated the file structure and code appears to be. Even still, it is the easiest CMS that I have used and the community has created plugins to make the copy-folder-for-a-new-theme/plugin at least tolerable. A challenge comes when one wants to use the 1990’s method of serving web applications in […]
I recently updated my kubernetes cluster from 1.10.2 to 1.11.0. I noticed heapster was being deprecated and completely removed by version 1.13.0. I thought this would be the perfect time to try out metrics-server. I had to download the git repo to apply the kubernetes yaml to my cluster. Since this is sometimes not as […]
Jenkins-x appears to be the next big thing in CI/CD workflows – especially if you develop applications on kubernetes. There were a few tweaks I needed to do to set it up: I had to manually create Persistent Volumes (no big deal, below are what I have for my NFS share) apiVersion: v1 kind: PersistentVolume metadata: […]
This is the script I use to change the DNS record of my home IP when it changes. I have it running once a week and have not noticed a lapse in coverage. If your ISP has DHCP configured correctly, you will receive the same IP address when you are due for a renew. Otherwise […]
After I created a home kubernetes cluster, I immediately wanted to allow external access to pods/services/ingresses hosted inside the cluster. One must be aware that in bare metal environments, there is no receiver of an api call to create a load balancer. Since there is not a scriptable environment available to kubernetes, kubernetes cannot request […]
So I admit it – I am completely obsessed with Kubernetes. All of the web app/api deployment challenges in the past 20 years have been somewhat solved with the Kubernetes orchestration and scheduling platform. Kubernetes brings fault-tolerance, and Highly available systems if set up correctly (i.e. use a Kubernetes cloud installer). I enjoy having the […]
There is a God and He loves you. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Everyone is a sinner and our sin separates us from the love that God wants to express toward us […]
I have not been posting as much tech stuff on my blog as I want to. The reason for this is I have been mulling about the idea of submitting my tutorials to a publication and get paid for my work. I still have not decided if this is the right course of action. Not […]