My Level 4 Cache

I’m an experienced software engineer who uses multiple technologies to create custom solutions. Keeping 15+ syntaxes and an encyclopedia of detailed configuration steps and workarounds for various software and server products in a finite amount of gray matter is tough. This blog is my brain’s off-site storage and online reference for many of the procedures and workarounds I’ve created and/or collected over the years. I’ll also occasionally drop a self or career-reflective post if I think it’s important enough.

Ubuntu 18.04 Stops Prompting for Password

August 28, 2019 by mylevel4cache

I’ve run into this issue twice now, so into the blog it goes. The issue manifested once with a recovered Ubuntu instance and once with… Read more

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Developer, Heal Thyself!

August 26, 2019 by mylevel4cache

I was reading the Letters to a New Developer blog and ran across mooreds’ post about the surprising number of programmers who can’t program. Unless… Read more

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To Thine Own Self be 1=1

August 24, 2019 by mylevel4cache

You always remember your first. I don’t recall exactly how old I was but I was young, maybe nine or ten. She lived in the… Read more

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Private Coder (ala Tina Turner’s Private Dancer)

August 21, 2019 by mylevel4cache

Tina Turner’s classic eighties song Private Dancer if it had been written by a software developer.

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Two Peas in a (Dysfunctional) Pod

August 19, 2019 by mylevel4cache

I have a really bad habit when it comes to the creative process, particularly writing. I revise change modify edit my work incessantly. I’m a… Read more

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