DEV Community: Rob

Home Improvement at 192.168.0.1

Rob — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 01:57:03 +0000

Interestingly enough, working in Azure with IaaS, and configuring resources to work together has driven me to explore my own at home 'infrastructure'.

I live in a small apartment- so I don't need much in terms of complex IoT services, but I do have a small nas that I host files on and a few wireless devices. None of these resources are managed at all and honestly they don't need to be, but Vlans are like friends right? The more the merrier!

My current setup is pretty sparse:

There are two Phases:

Phase 1:

Implement a managed router and firewall.

The reasoning behind this is pretty obvious, I want my network organized and segregated so I can see what's going in and out of it. Some coworkers have recommended the Unifi Dream Router and after looking at it, I'm extremely impressed and excited to try it. The capabilities look amazing for the price and it looks like I'll be able to get a lot out of it as a beginner.

Phase 2:

Implement Vlans for different groups of devices.

I don't really know how I want this to look- I definitely want a Vlan for guests, and I'm considering creating one for IoT devices (and maybe getting a few more IoT Devices). I do know that I want to maximize the wired connections in my home and I don't want to just rely on Wifi for everything.

Eventually I want to run a small application server on prem just to learn how to do it (and then obviously put it back in the cloud), but that's going to take time. Stay tuned for more updates! :)

Designing is harder than it looks (I don't know how this should look)

Rob — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 02:15:55 +0000

As a way to grow my cloud experience, I am currently working through The Cloud Resume Challenge. One of the central tasks is to host a resume webpage on an azure storage account as a static site. Now, having had a myspace account, I didn't consider the idea of whipping up a resume to be all that hard, and even if it's a site, it can't be much different than a regular pdf or a word document, right?

Nope.

After transposing my resume to the site page, it looked uninspired, sparse and the content looked flat on the page. After agonizing and looking at other resumes online, it took me an hour or so of tinkering but I was able to find a design that I was comfortable with. But the entire time I was fascinated at how hard it was for me to come up with something so simple that I felt good about, even when borrowing elements from excellent resources online. It left me feeling a sense of appreciation for good front end design and honestly, design itself.

As someone who initially entered the technology world through Helpdesk support, thinking in terms of "break fix" and "downtime", troubleshooting error codes and reading through logs, I don't often enter the creative thinking headspace. Designing something that is pleasant to look at was a challenge for me- and I wasn't expecting it on such a simple project.

The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Alan Perlis.

Rob — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:57:09 +0000

I'm going to read through this book and write up a short review chapter by chapter, I've seen it show up multiple times online as a good book to read.

I'm excited :)

Rob — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:16:09 +0000

I'm so ready to get this app up and running lets goooo