Exploring the Abandoned Tillamook Railroad
On Saturday, a group of friends and I went on a 9-mile trek along the abandoned Tillamook Railroad about 35 miles west of Portland. This railroad was origina...
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Indian Heaven Weekend
A motley crew of 10 friends and I spent last weekend backpacking Indian Heaven Wilderness, in southern WA.
Wine Tasting in the Columbia Gorge
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Building a Raspberry Pi-Powered Kubernetes Cluster
Kubernetes was being used more and more at my office, so I wanted to dive in myself and figure out how this thing worked. I’d seen a few posts about buildin...
How to freeze page Javascript execution in Chrome
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Useful Amazon Echo features
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Reification vs. Erasure in Java Collections
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Jetta vs. Rock Pile: our backpacking trip to Waucoma Lakes
(spoiler alert: the rock pile won)
Generic method for filtering lists with Google Guava
The following is a generic method for filtering lists with the Google Guava library that uses Predicates.
How to persistently set environment variables on OSX 10.10
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