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Travel
View AllNovember 30, 2021 19,365 Miles and 183 Days Later...
On April 30th, 2021, I locked my apartment door for the last time. Despite spending the last two months attempting to downsize all my wordily possessions into a…
June 2, 2021 Truly Alone in Cathedral Valley
Friday, May 24th, I embarked on on my two night adventure into the very remote Cathedral Valley . Given all the popular turn-outs, the loop comes out to being…
May 8, 2021 One Week Into My Six Month US Road Trip
Friday, May 30th, I set out for a six month US road trip. It was a hectic Friday. It was the last day of my lease, and I had to make sure all of my life's…
January 28, 2021 Stranded with a Flat Deep in Death Valley on Racetrack Valley Road
Back in December I went on my first solo road trip. However, I'm no stranger to long road trips into highly remote areas. Thanks to my then-partner's interest…
Life
View AllApril 21, 2021 The End of the First Chapter of my Career Break
It has been almost two years since I first decided to take an extended career break to travel the world and overall just do whatever I wanted for a year or so…
January 21, 2021 Why I Never Wrote Until Now
March 14, 2012. That's the day I wrote the first post on my new blog at CodingByChris.com . Since that glorious inauguration, I wrote a grand total of zero…
Software Engineering
View AllFebruary 2, 2021 How To Apply ChromeOS's Linux Container's /etc/hosts Outside of the Container in Chrome
Today, you can run a web application within ChromeOS's Linux container, go to localhost in Chrome, and it will just work. When the ChromeOS team rolled out…
January 21, 2021 Generically Dockerizing Linux VMs
It's 2012. You have this amazing new service to launch! So of course, you start getting it to run within a docker container and evaluate tools like Kubernetes…