Kenting, Taiwan (墾丁, 台灣) 2018

Recent Posts by Casey Flynn
Book Review: Docker Deep Dive
2020-11-25

A great resource for getting up to speed with Docker

Book Review: Free as in Freedom, Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
2020-11-09

On the origins of Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, GNU, Linux, FSF, GPL

Book Review: Operating System Concepts
2020-09-25

High Level Overview of Operating Systems

How I Kickstarted my Software Engineering Career by Building an Over-Engineered Product and a Total Failure of a Business
2020-07-20

Ridiculous project I spent a decent chunk of my early 20s focused on

Book Review: Algorithms in a Nutshell
2020-07-14

An "In a Nutshell" approach book might not be the best starting point for general learning

Book Review: The Go Programming Language
2020-06-28

A comprehensive guide to understanding and using the Go programming language

Book Review: Learning Computer Architecture with Raspberry Pi
2020-06-16

A walkthrough of the history as well as the low level workings of computers

Creating a Reusable GitHub Action to Automatically Format a README for a TIL Repository
2020-04-26

GitHub Actions' ability to use docker containers can be exploited for many useful CI/CD tasks. This is an example of building an action that generates a formatted README for a repo of TILs

Book Review: Fullstack React, The Complete Guide to ReactJS and Friends
2020-04-04

A guided tour of ReactJS philosophy and the modern web app frontend ecosystem

Quantifying and Time Tracking My Reading
2020-03-27

Using quantification and measuring techniques with Google Sheets to track my technical reading progress.

Advanced MySQL demo using docker, tmux, tmuxinator
2020-03-14

Using containers with tmux and tmuxinator to visualize demos

Book Review: High Performance MySQL and thoughts on digesting dense technical books
2020-03-13

High Performance MySQL by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko. A deep dive into MySQL/RDBMSs and dense technical books

Book Review: MySQL Crash Course
2020-02-09

My thoughts after reading MySQL Crash Course by Ben Forta

New Tricks
2020-01-18

A few new tricks and techniques I've recently incorporated into my workflow: (peco, yank, vim -, "*yy register usage, hexyl, bat, bropages)

Book Review: Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible (3rd edition)
2019-12-23

My thoughts and insights from the technical book, "Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible (3rd edition)"

CircleCI to GitHub Actions
2019-09-10

Migrating a test, build and deploy pipeline from CircleCI to GitHub Actions

Automatically initalized and version controlled MySQL database in kubernetes+helm development environment
2019-08-30

A simple setup for an automatically initialized and version controlled MySQL database in kubernetes & helm development environments

Deploying to Kubernetes from CI with helm
2019-03-05

Adding new values to your values.yaml file and deploying from CI with --reuse-values can get you into trouble since tiller won't reference changes to values.yaml when creating kubernetes resources yaml

Bundling static website assets in a single binary with gobuffalo/packr
2019-02-26

How to use gobuffalo/packr to build a simple website in golang with static assets that's easy to test and can be bundled into a single binary for deployment