Work Putting into practice stuff I’ve been curious about for a while, but never had the time to actually work on, feels like a theme lately for a few of my projects at Reclaim. A lot of the stuff I’ve been learning about regarding Docker, as well as working with APIs, is really coming in handy right now across several projects. With both of those examples, I’ve worked with them in the past sporadically, but taking the time to participate in (and lead, in some cases) Reclaimed EdTech flex courses has immersed me in this stuff enough to give me more confidence....

This week I did a stream to document how I use hugo, the static site generator, for this blog that you’re reading right now! The point of the stream was to show how I use this tool, but all of this is really not a good starting point if you are looking to get started with hugo, or you just want to see how it works. For that, I’d recommend checking out the hugo quick start documentation!...

I recently needed to back up a bunch of files, about 6GB, from a Reclaim Cloud node so here are some notes on how I was able to connect directly to the Node. I like using the Reclaim Cloud SSH Gate for SSH or SFTP access to containers most of the time, but in my case because I had so many files to sync, I wanted to use rsync, which as far as I’m aware won’t work with the SSH Gate....

Family stuff Nat has been talking about horses a lot lately, so we brought her to a place near Sturgeon Bay to do a quick ride around the arena, she really liked it! We’re also in town to go out to dinner with my parents for my mom’s birthday! In our downtime today my dad has been using the Merlin Bird ID app to play bird calls in their backyard and identify birds they can hear....

I’ve been meaning to do more blogging thats small and simple, so I think I’ll start doing some more posts that are journal-ish. I’m not sure that I’m committing to a common format or time-frame or anything 🤷🏻‍♂️. We’ll see if i stick to this. Reading I just finished Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It’s far future sci-fi where humans have to escape earth and find a new home in the stars, and come across a terraforming experiment from a past human civilization....

In addition to the stream on a new Ghost installer, Jim and I showcased the streaming tools we used to put together the Reclaim EdTech Understanding Containers flex course as well as discussed the format of the course and future offerings for Reclaim EdTech. And here are the chapters if you want to skip around the video: 0:00 - Intro 3:50 - OBS demo 7:09 - vdo.ninja demo 17:08 - reclaimed....

Today Jim and I did a stream showcasing a new Ghost installer for Reclaim Cloud that should automate a lot of common setup tasks that people run into when using Ghost. I’m really proud of this installer because I’ve put a bunch of time into making this thing really simple to use for folks who don’t have experience with Docker or Reclaim Cloud, but just want to get Ghost up and running quickly....

All the cool kids are blogging about the EdTech angst, including some Reclaimers. The discussion all started with Audrey Watters’s post on the end of Hack Education and her stepping away from edtech. I, like many others, have followed Audrey’s work for a while, and that work has played a pretty big role in demonstrating to me the value of a critical perspective of technology in my field of choice, edtech, from an early point in my career....

A couple of weeks ago I did a quick stream (ok it wasn’t quick, it was almost 90 minutes) on the Basics of the Command Line. My goal was to start at the beginning, with navigating around files and folders and editing text, while picking up some tips and tricks along the way, as well show why the command line is still so useful and important. I spend a lot of time trying to drive home that you should definitely definitely use the tab key to autocomplete paths as it will make your life easier....

This is a quick little post to document something I’ve found handy! A common way to issue a Let’s Encrypt cert and get things to load on Reclaim Cloud over HTTPS is to use an NGINX Load Balancer. Here’s an example environment, one I use to run Foundry Virtual Tabletop: The trick is some applications that you run won’t automatically redirect URLs with HTTP to HTTPS, so you have to manually type HTTPS in your address bar....