brandon t. phillips

Advent of Code 2023

Updated · 2023-12-05 | Published · 2023-12-02

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 is a "master post?" 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.

I'm Starting 100 Days to Offload

Published · 2023-10-21

Just Write Already!

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.

Shell, Yes!

Published · 2023-07-14

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.

Using Git in Your Static Site Workflow

Published · 2023-04-30

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.

Deploy and Run Ansible with Docker

Published · 2023-04-11

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 Ansible to scale our agent deployment to large environments, and run other large-scale operations.