Controlling my garage door with Elixir and Nerves

25 Feb 2021

Is the garage door open? Because my eyeballs can't answer this question in my house I explore using some hardware and software to answer this question.

RADIUS authentication in SQL Developer on MacOS (updated)

02 Jul 2018

Configure SQL Developer to use RADIUS (two-factor/MFA or other reasons) for authentication into an Oracle instance on modern MacOS.

How I learned to stop whining and tolerate my touchbar MacBook Pro

06 Jul 2017

Many vim users co-opt their caps lock key for actually useful purposes—an easier-to-reach escape key is a popular one.

RADIUS authentication in SQL Developer on MacOS

24 Feb 2017

Configure SQL Developer to use RADIUS (two-factor/MFA or other reasons) for authentication into an Oracle instance on modern MacOS.

Postgres foreign data wrapper for Oracle (oracle_fdw) on MacOS

20 Dec 2016

The Ecto adapter landscape currently lacks an Oracle option, but you can use Postgres' foreign data wrapper feature to connect to a remote Oracle database. This posts will help you get oracle_fdw installed on newer versions of MacOS running SIP (System Integrity Protection).

Using erloci to talk to Oracle in Elixir

23 Nov 2016

A handful of examples of interacting with an Oracle data from Elixir via the erloci Erlang library.

The Roman Numerals kata

07 Jul 2016

Sandi Metz's Make Everything the Same post got me thinking about my own solution to the Roman Numerals kata and how it differed from so many others'

Self-sourcing bash profile

23 Jul 2015

Get ~/.bash_profile changes to self-source.

Using ssh bastion hosts without going mad

20 Feb 2015

A simple ssh configuration to transparently agent-forward through a bastion host.

In search of better PeopleSoft effective date queries, Part 2

01 Dec 2014

A continued exploration of alternative techniques for making PeopleSoft effective date queries more readable and maintainable by composing subrelations and destructuring with the WITH clause.