Larry Smith Jr is both an incredible technologist and a superb human being. Larry shares his thoughts and lessons on how he has turned his own journey towards self-learning into both a way to give yourself goals and it has become a career creator for him as a result. There are a lot of profound lessons that will come from …
Microsoft, GitHub, and the Power of Corporate Support of Open Source
Let me start by saying that I’m a massive advocate, contributor, and supporter of many open source communities, while also working in my role for a technology vendor who provides a commercial product that also supports many open source platforms. The reason that matters is that I’m not saying this without an understanding of the inner workings of both the …
Run the AWS Shell Quickly and Easily in a VirtualBox Instance Using Vagrant
Because we like the Martha Stewart pre-baked oven version of things, this is the shortcut to running the AWS CLI without having to dirty up your own local environment. Why use a Sandbox? While development entirely using your local machine is handy, there can often be configuration issues, and also conflicts with other development libraries. In my earlier post, you …
Updating Forked Git Repository from Upstream Source (aka Rebase all the things!)
As you can imagine, the world of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) means that we are going to have to dabble a lot more in the world of code repositories. Git is the most common tool I have found in use for code version control, and along with it, Github.com is the most common place that people (including myself https://github.com/DiscoPosse) store their project …