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Indoor Wood Dado Rail/Ledge Restoration

My house has some 1980s era wood panels with dado rails and built-in shelves. The trendy thing at the moment is to rip that out and paint everything white or in muted matte colours. Some of it isn't in super great shape...

Portfolio

Muskoka's Power Professionals

Custom tailored small business infrastructure development for employees, website development, design, UX, copywriting, and content marketing strategy. I'm biased, but these are the best electricians you can find in Muskoka,

Portfolio

Seize the Night

A living archive for the [x] Seize the Night [x] (StN) guild from Neopets. Circa 2000~2005. stn.shriker.ca Seize the Night was originally a nameless collective on Neopets.

Identity Management

Varg Auth

Canadian identity and access management tool. Passwordless logins, SSO, OpenID Connect (OIDC/OAuth2), SAML, MFA, JWT, social logins, webhooks, and more. https://www.varg.ca

Software Engineering

Silos and How They Impede Productivity

Have you ever started a new job and there were tickets waiting for you? I'm talking eight month old issues in the backlog that have multiple comments that increase in frustration, and then end with, "On hold until we hire a SME (Subject Matter Expert) to figure this stupid shit out."

Python

Building a MUD in 2020

Why the hell not? The MUD medium, also known as multi-user dungeon (aka multi-user dimension and multi-user domain), has been around for over 30 years. My online science fiction game,

Software Engineering

Where to Find Remote Jobs

Edit: This (unfortunately) turned out to be topical. Remote Job SitesAngelListAuthentic JobsFlexJobsHackerXIndeed.ca & Indeed.comLarajobs (Laravel job board)NODESKRemote4meRemote.coRemotiveWeWorkRemotelyWorking NomadsRemote Jobs in tech startupBrowse 1,000s of hand-picked remote startup jobs, updated daily. Remotive (est. 2014) helps tech professionals land remote jobs.

Software Engineering

Using Boxstarter and Chocolately for Repeatable Windows 10 Installations

Local development environments have come a long way on Windows machines over the past decade. We have the ease and use of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can get your favourite Linux distribution up and running fast with no need for VirtualBox or

Terrarium

Meet the Bioactive Clean up Crew

Since getting into creating bioactive enclosures for my reptiles, I've taken a hard turn into isopods (terrestrial crustaceans). Even though I sometimes refer to them as "my bugs," they are

Ghost

Update Node.js Version on Digital Ocean for Ghost

Update the Node.js version on your Digital Ocean droplet to support Ghost 3.0.0. If you are running an older Ghost installation on Ubuntu 18.04 using Digital

Software Engineering

Separation of Concerns & User Experience

If you were a student of Computer Science, you have no doubt heard of ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability). ACID properties are amazing. They can ensure that bad transactions (failures, duplicates, etc.) never make it into your database, and that when something does fail,

Security

You Stole My Source Code on Neopets

I love reading about how many people first got into design and programming on Neopets. Neopets was (and still is) a virtual cornucopia of community and learning.

Software Engineering

Optimizing Raster Images for Web

A raster image is a grid of pixels. Each pixel contains colour and transparency information. Image compression is a type of data compression is a type of data compression that is applied to digital images. Compression helps make file sizes smaller for both storage

Security

Nmap for the Newly Initiated

Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a reconnaissance utility (or footprinting tool) which you use to discover hosts and services on a computer network by sending packets and analyzing the responses. The

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