First Tiger

WE - A Labour of Love

I initially wrote this blog entry as I was winding down my time at WE. At the time, I started to reflect on my four-year journey there. Overall, it's been

ansible

Fixing Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) in Ansible run

I was getting a "Failed to import the required Python library (setuptools) on [machine name]'s Python /usr/bin/python." Part of the issue is that I have Python 2 and Python 3 running on my Raspberry Pi. After digging through the web, I

application

Sunsama - An initial review

I've recently fallen in love with a new productivity app called Sunsama. I came across it quite by chance, but after using it for the past few months, it's working

life

Monthly Update - March 2020

It's been a rough couple of months that started with me fracturing both my feet and then the whole world turned upside down because of COVID-19. The fracturing of my feet resulted in throwing a bit of a wrench to my health plans. However,

software engineering

SSL breaking in Heroku with Cloudflare

I decided to put a 'real' URL to my side project which meant that I put it behind Cloudflare and turned on SSL for both CloudFlare and Heroku. However, I was running into an issue where the first symptom was that I was unable

application

BodBot - an initial review

BodBot has turned out to be one of my favourite apps this year. I’ve been inspired by a number of people and one of the goals I set for

software engineering

The Practicality of Behaviour Driven Development

I started on another side project, which I've dubbed Bunch of Stuff, and I've continued to appreciate the practicality of Behaviour Driven Development, especially with Cucumber on Ruby on Rails. I found that I'm more effective and efficient with prototyping when using these practices

life

Monthly Progress - January 2020

It's hard to believe it, but January just came and went already. As part of my yearly retrospective, I decided to add monthly progress on my goals for the year. Focus on my health I've been active 17 of the 31 days in January

life

Focusing on people that matter

This blog is the complement of my previous blog and an expansion of the retrospective that I wrote earlier. I ended up breaking up focusing on people that matter from focusing on things that matter because I was finding it hard to write this

life

Focusing on things that matter

I remember coming across this tweet over the Christmas break and it spurred many thoughts. It also became a big part on how I framed my retropsective for this year. Oh for fucks sake 🙄. Don’t sacrifice your 20s – or any other decade of

life

Retrospective on 2019

As part of my annual discipline of reflecting on the year that past, it's hard not to conclude that 2019 was a very tough year for me personally. It was one of the few times in a couple of decades where there were literal

software engineering

Too many redirects for WordPress behind Traefik when SSL is enabled

I’ve been experimenting with setting up Traefik as my main reverse proxy server for my home infrastructure. As part of that test, I wanted to put WordPress behind Traefik while serving the site up in SSL. After a long day of setting

software engineering

Failed to import the required Python library (Docker SDK for Python: docker (Python >= 2.7) or docker-py (Python 2.6))

I’ve been playing around with Docker and Ansible this break. I just hit a rather bizarre issue that kept cropping up. The error I got was “Failed to import the required Python library (Docker SDK for Python: docker (Python >= 2.7)

software engineering

Getting a FrozenError running SearchKick reindex with ElasticSearch

I’ve started to play with SearchKick again as a new component to my pet project and I kept hitting a FrozenError message whenever I ran the re-index call Traceback (most recent call last): 1: from (irb):1 FrozenError (can't modify frozen String)

software engineering

Ruby error: find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.a)

I decided I was going to try to develop on my Ubuntu machine today and I ran into the following error: .rbenv/versions/2.5.0/lib/ruby/2.5.0/rubygems.rb:289:in `find_spec_for_exe': can't find gem bundler (>= 0.

gadget

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Initial Review

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 has been my primary personal device for the past couple of years. However, I decided to upgrade my Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 as Costco had a really good deal on. I was able

application

Microsoft Teams Review

We’ve been using Microsoft Teams here at WE since the initial beta launch in 2016 and I’ve been completely blown away by it. Microsoft Teams has completely changed the way I work here at WE. I see Microsoft Teams as

work

Playing Competitively in Business

I’ve been reflecting a lot on my work and my career over the past few months and one of the things that I’ve been contemplating on the many similarities between work and team sports. Most successful businesses are the result

life

Retrospective on 2018

The retrospective that I write yearly is an opportune moment to reflect on the year that just past. Whenever I write my retrospectives, I start by reading the last one to see what I was thinking about last year and then comment on how

gadget

Hands On Review: Google Pixel Slate

My Pixel Slate finally arrived weeks after it was ordered due to the Canada Postal strike on Sunday December 9th. The total package of tablet, keyboard and pen cost me a whopping CAD $2700 in total. After using it for two weeks, my perspective

application

Switching over to Telegram

Google Hangouts had been my primary messaging platform for very many years. The ongoing joke among my friends had always been “we’re not friends unless you’re on Google Hangouts.” So much so that many of my friends

gadget

Excited about the Pixel Slate

The news announcement of the Google Pixel Slate at the Made by Google event this year(2018) really caught my attention. Android tablets have had a very difficult time finding a place in the market place despite having a great start with the Nexus

Starting all over again...

The K Unit started as a pet project with me coding the original blog in C#, migrated to DotNetNuke before finally settling with WordPress. After a decade of writing on that domain, I decided to start over again with a new blog and domain,