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Looking Back On My Last 20+ Years In Tech

I would be remiss if I did not ultimately reflect back on the nearly 25 year IT career that has brought me to this point in life. I am not really going to thank any one company for “all they have done for me”. The reality is every company I …

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Time For Change….A Big One

It started long before now when I began saying, “I want to get out of the Tech Industry before I turn 50”. People that know me well have heard me say this many times outloud. Let’s face it, those of us familiar with it over the last decade or so …

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How Merchants are Mis-Using “Convenience Fees”

Image Attribution: Alpha Stock Images – http://alphastockimages.com/ I have been on a tear on social media channels and more specifically on my Google/Opentable reviews when it comes to merchants and restaurants incorrectly using of so-called convenience fees. The problem lately is everyone is starting to do it because they THINK it’s …

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The Great Divide That Shatters Relationships

James St. John, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons This past weekend and the subsequent days since have literally been a roller coaster of emotions. It has ended up resulting in not only the single worst vacation to date, but also created such a blast radius of mis communication, …

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Cloudways Auto Scale Review

Recently, Cloudways announced the new release of their Autoscale solution for WordPress. Naturally as a Cloudways fan, I wanted to try it out so I signed up for the public beta. The idea behind such a solution for WordPress honestly is the first I have seen. Most folks have been …

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Blocking The Use of CloudFlare Tunnels

I have sparked a lot of interest with the home lab and tech community about the use of CloudFlare Tunnels and CloudFlare Access. These offerings have a great potential for people like me and others as well as legitimate use for enterprises. That being said, I put on my “what …

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How To Add CloudFlare Access to Tunnels

The other day I posted about CloudFlare Tunnels which has gotten a bit of interest around the community. CloudFlare Tunnel on their own are “good” because they allow you to publish an external routable hostname without opening firewall ports and port forwarding. As I have had to address on Twitter …

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