Development

01/26/2026

Beware the Sunset Trap: Why Your Legacy Software is a Ticking Time Bomb (and AI is Lighting the Fuse)

by Frank Rietta

The sunset trap is a disruptive, unplanned, expensive balloon payment for your organization, and with today's AI integrations it will be worse than ever before.

01/23/2026

Use AI to Describe Images as a Background Job in Ruby on Rails

by Frank Rietta

Treat AI as a background job in Ruby on Rails: a framework for using OpenAI's API to generate images from a prompt, describe them, and render the metadata.

12/17/2025

Local AI Setup with Ollama and Nvidia GPU on Ubuntu Linux

by Frank Rietta

Discover how to host your own AI locally using Ollama with an Nvidia GPU in Docker Compose on Ubuntu Linux, enhancing privacy, security, and cost efficiency.

03/15/2025

Writing Rock, Paper, Scissors in Plain JavaScript to Expose my Daughter to Development

by Frank Rietta

Vanilla JavaScript game: See how to build Rock Paper Scissors with just HTML, CSS, and JS. Source code and playable demo included!

04/04/2023

How to win the race with hackers when new vulnerabilities are publicly disclosed!

by Frank Rietta

Keeping web apps up-to-date prevents data breaches. Use automated testing of custom software to patch quickly after a vulnerability is publicly disclosed.

09/21/2022

Top 5 Tips and Tricks on Developing with Docker

by Frank Rietta

Five practical Docker development tips from three years of daily use: shell scripting, native dependencies, prebuilt tool images, and running on Linux hosts.

08/31/2021

The Ripples From SolarWinds

by Wren Steitle

The Solar Winds breach is felt throughout the tech community. More important than the breach is the aftermath and the response. How does that affect others?

Streamlining Workflows With Docker

by Wren Steitle

Working on numerous projects can require significant time to set up locally. With Docker, we have streamlined this process to mere minutes.

01/14/2021

Disable Low Quality Webcam Microphone in Ubuntu Linux 20.04

by Frank Rietta

How to make sure your high quality microphone, not the low quality USB webcam audio, is used on Meet, Zoom, and Teams calls by block listing it with udev.

01/12/2021

How to Set Up and Encrypt an External SSD and Run Docker Images Externally

by Jack Cullen

Running multiple Docker images locally eats up disk space on smaller drives. Set up an encrypted external SSD to run your Docker images and free up local disk.

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