Before the open letter to 2024, I want to address 2023.| Wes Kennedy
I’m currently reading the book “Radical Simplicity”, by Jim Merkel, as a part of trying to sort out what is next in my life. There’s no shortage of things striving to get my attention, my energy, and my time, but the greater question is what do I want out of my life? And even more difficult that the what of it all, is the how.| Wes Kennedy
I’ve always believed in sharing things publicly that can help other people, even if it ”shows weakness”, or could effect my reputation or even my career. Why this opening statement you ask? Well I’m about to talk about my struggles with alcohol and then admonish our industry to bring this thing home.| Wes Kennedy
Just like with my ssh page, I like to take notes for myself to make re-doing projects easier down the road. Today, I want to note some real quick Docker best practices for a Python application.| Wes Kennedy
A while back I posted about job hunting while ADHD, and I’m happy to report that I was able to make it work! I am now a Principal Technical Marketing Engineer for SingleStore, where I will be focusing on bringing powerful messaging, connecting with developer communities, and creating lots of content for our customers.| Wes Kennedy
It’s no secret to anyone that follows me on Mastodon, or that bird site, that I’ve been looking for a new job since the beginning of the year. I’ve been conducting the search openly, because it’s just too hard for me any other way. The problem with looking for a job while you’re currently employed is that you still have to do your other job and properly searching for a new one requires a lot of work. Like a lot of work.| Wes Kennedy
I’ve been a pretty adamant self-hoster for a long time. I love the concept of just throwing in the cloud, paying a low monthly fee to use it, and not dealing with organization or the underlying infrastructure - but this all sucks.| Wes Kennedy
I’ve been running Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, NZBget, Ombi, and more for a long time at home. It’s lived on my QNAP goofynewton for as long as I’ve had it. I’m getting ready to migrate everything over to my NVMe NAS (more power and consolidation - to include my Frigate/Compreface/DoubleTake setup), so I figured I should document how everything worked in Docker before I migrate to NixOS to host it all. Don’t worry my NixOS friends, I’ll be sure to update with a part 2 describing ...| Wes Kennedy
Back in October I wrote On Being a Technical Product Strategist, where I discussed the need for someone who focuses on the holistic view of technical product strategy. This person (or more likely group of people) would bring a long history of technical experience, cross-functional work history, and be well connected in the industry - so they can take input from a number of different perspectives and distill it into a product strategy that meets their customer’s needs.| Wes Kennedy
I’m going to preface this post with this, 2022 sucked.| Wes Kennedy