Brandon's personal website. Blogs, projects, and more. Zola 2023-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 https://brandont.dev/atom.xml 2023-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 2023-12-05T00:00:00+00:00 Brandon Phillips https://brandont.dev/blog/advent-of-code-2023/

<p>This is my Advent of Code master post for 2023! I know it's already day 2, but I just had the idea so I'm doing it now. What's the purpouse of this master post? What <em>is</em> a &quot;master post?&quot; Well, basically, I'll be placing my solutions for each AOC puzzle here, and updating the same blog post as I go. I'll walk through the steps I took to arrive at the solution, and some things I may have learned along the way. Hopefully, it'll turn out useful for someone somewhere.</p>

2023-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 2023-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/100-days-to-offload/

<h3 id="just-write-already">Just Write Already!</h3> <p>I've been stuck in a writing slump for a while, especially after launching this site earlier this year. Leading up to pushing the site to prod for the first time, I had several ideas for blog posts in mind, and of course, spilled them onto the internet shortly thereafter. However, after that initial spike in posts I quickly ran dry of ideas. </p>

2023-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 2023-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/shell-yes/

<p>For any Linux enthusiast, administrator, developer, systems engineer, or overall neck-beard, the terminal is the meat and potatoes of a good chunk of day-to-day work and interaction with Linux. Your terminal's shell is a powerful tool to make your work easier and more fun to work with.</p>

2023-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-30T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/static-site-workflow-using-git/

<p>This website and its contents are deployed to my VPS via git. The repository is pushed to a production remote and uses hooks to run some basic scripts that organize the incoming content. Git can be a powerful tool to build simple deployment pipelines to remote servers.</p>

2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/deploy-and-run-ansible-with-docker/

<p>My current position involves monitoring large enterprise environments for numerous clients. As the company grows, the need to scale our operations grows with it. Recently, I've been experimenting with <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://ansible.com">Ansible</a> to scale our agent deployment to large environments, and run other large-scale operations. </p>

2023-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-03T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/high-variance-dice/

<p>In April of last year the gaming-supplies company Wyrmwood Gaming launched a <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wyrmwood/dice-by-wyrmwood/description">Kickstarter campaign</a> for their new dice lineup. Alongside beautiful new sets of gemstone, resin, glass, and carved wooden dice, they announced a new numbering system that can now be requested with your dice set called “High-Variance”.</p>

2023-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 2023-04-02T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/hello-world/

<p>It's my first post on the new website! After a couple of months of work, I've finished the new website. So far, I'm pretty happy with how it's turned out, and the ideas I have for future additions to the site.</p>

2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 Unknown https://brandont.dev/blog/archive/