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Lessons Learned

A collection of 4 posts
Cloud Computing

Hosting a Wordpress blog on Digital Ocean

I’ve been running Kenst.com since 2009. While the content has changed over time, the site has remained a blog. Kenst.com has gone from self-hosted on a Windows Home Server in my living room, to Blogger, and ultimately to WordPress. It’s been migrated to and from so
Dec 22, 2020 — 2 min read
About Me

I like working from home... 🏠

I like working from home… but it feels different now.  Clarification: I like working from home, when it’s my choice. My ideal work/life choice would involve: splitting the week into 2 or 3 days of in-office and from-home work. The extrovert in me would get to talk to
Mar 30, 2020 — 1 min read
Git

Lessons Learned from the Contributing to GitHub is For You Workshop

On April 11, 2018 I gave a workshop called Contributing to GitHub is For You is For You (abbreviated as C2GI4U) in Des Moines, IA to the Des Monies Area Quality Assurance Association (abbrevitated as DAQAA). Roughly 36 people signed up for the DAQAA event meetup and of those about
Apr 26, 2018 — 3 min read
Being a Distributed Tester was hard
Lessons Learned

Being a Distributed Tester was hard

As a new father, being able to work a few days per week from home has been a great way to help adjust to our wonderful new addition and the demands that go along with him. Days in the office are great for face time and collaboration and days at
Sep 19, 2017 — 2 min read
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