Archive
All posts since the beginning of time.
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This site is a combination of many other blogs that have been merged together over the years. Here’s the general timeline:
- 2004 - 2005
scraped together from a blog I had in high school along with importing some journal and bits from around the web. entries, this is missing a hundred other posts that were never archived and are gone forever. Probably a good riddance.
- 2007 - 2012
import from a defunct Blogger blog called “the thoughts bubble” that I wrote when I was in the navy. Tons of cringe poetry, political rants, diary entries. I once deleted everything but found it via web archive and I enjoy reading it now to remind me of how far I’ve come.
- 2013 - 2023
post-navy era, abandoned all dreams to pursue tech career, combination of blogs that bounced between jekyll, ghost, wordpress, hand rolled blog engine for a decade. Merged in tralev.net which was a travel blog that I wrote on my journey to all 50 state capitals.
- December 2023 - Now
rebirth as a hugo blog, hopefully the last migration.
2024
July 2024
- No Politics in the Workplace
- Soupy Hot, Help Me, Help Me
- First Debian CI Contribution
- Scripting GNOME Terminal Tabs in Debian
- Sundubu
- Ladybird on Debian Stable
June 2024
- 一百天中文 (One Hundred Days of Chinese)
- Python Script for migrating from Wordpress to Hugo
- Recipes
- My Custom Miniflux CSS Theme
- 36
- Consistent Blogging is Hard
- Nostalgia Dagger Module
- Miniflux Dagger Module
May 2024
- Song of the Day: pos - Hemlocke Springs
- Five Books Every Human Should Read
- Forbidden Words
- Bon Appetit Welcome to the War on Cars
- Rules for ordering Sichuan food
- Lazar Lazinsky
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
- Catastrophic Nextcloud Upgrade
- Terminal RSS Reader With Nom
- Poem from Dad for Grandma Valya
- Valentina Rytenko
- 2023
2023
December 2023
- Running Dagger Pipelines on Sourcehut
- Ten Years of Dreaming of San Francisco
- Xi'an Famous Foods
- Raw Html Omitted in Hugo
2022
September 2022
August 2022
2021
April 2021
March 2021
- Bringing Back levlaz/blog
- Dropping Pakets and F# Bombs
- Integrating Openring into this Blog
- Using Skills
- A New Journey Begins
2020
October 2020
May 2020
April 2020
2019
December 2019
- Harrisburg Pennsylvania
- Springfield Illinois
- St. Paul Minnesota
- Santa Fe New Mexico
- OpenBSD cgit About Filters Hack
- Reading every manpage
- SSG helper scripts
September 2019
July 2019
May 2019
April 2019
February 2019
January 2019
2018
December 2018
November 2018
- Make A Symbolic Link to Your iCloud Drive
- Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
- German Mini Van
- Sofia Heisler No More Sad Pandas
- Six Foot Long Scorpions
- Installing Python Packages for DSE200x with pip
- Data Science Helps Fight Wildfires
- Historic Fan Fiction on the Ohio River
October 2018
September 2018
August 2018
July 2018
June 2018
- Denver Colorado
- Docker Based Development Environment for Packaging
- Becoming a Debian Developer
- Dealing With Flakey CI Commands With a Retry Loop in Bash
May 2018
- Notes On Installing CentOS 7 Server
- Installing Sage Math on Fedora 28
- Read All of Hacker News With the hanopener Extension
- Deploying an Angular 6 Application to Netlify
- Install Terraform on an Ubuntu Server
- Using Microsoft Power BI With PostgreSQL
April 2018
- Birthplace of the Gold Rush
- 45,000 Fans Showed that Atlanta is Serious About Soccer
- Augusta Maine
- Atlanta Georgia
- Slow Python Script and Using Pipenv with AWS Lambda
- What is GlassFish?
- Learn Kubernetes with Interactive Tutorials
March 2018
- Apex Triggers
- R1D47 Completing the Sorting and Searching Algorithms Course in C#
- R1D46 Infinite Loops in Process Builder
- R1D45 Queueable Apex
- R1D43 Getting Hands Dirty with Apex
- R1D42 levops
- R1D41 Debugging Webhooks with Flask and Ngrok
- R1D40 Swagger and OpenAPI
- R1D39 Secrets in Salesforce
- R1D38 SOQL and SOSL Queries in Apex
- R1D37 Wrapping Up Pre Requisites for the Developer Beginner Trail
- R1D36 Mobile App Customization in Salesforce
- R1D35 Business Process Management in Salesforce
- R1D34 Salesforce Adventurer
- R1D33 Salesforce DX with Continuous Integration
- R1D32 More Salesforce DX
February 2018
- Salesforce DX External Sharing Model
- R1D31 Getting Started with Salesforce DX
- R1D30 SalesForce Explorer
- R1D29 Becoming a Trailblazer
- R1D28 ASP.Net Core Testing
- R1D27 More C
- R1D26 Spinning My Wheels
- R1D25 The C Programming Language
- R1D24 Everyone Has Written a Function
- R1D23 Reverse Polish Hello World
- R1D22 More Sorting and Searching Algorithms in C#
- R1D21 Sorting Algorithms in C#
- R1D20 Memory Management in C#
- R1D19 Moonshots Day 2; Clickjacking for the greater good.
- R1D18 Moonshots Day 1
- R1D17 Nose Dive into OOP in C#
- R1D16 Object Oriented Programming in C#
- R1D15 Methods and Exception Handling in C# and Azure Notebooks
- R1D14 For While Do Loops
- R1D13 Intro to C# and Getting Docker working with .NET Core and SQL Server for Linux
- R1D12 Dot Net
- R1D11 There's a Mongo in My Redis
- R1D10 Oops, Something Went Wrong.
- R1D9 Red Hat JBoss Ticket Monster
- R1D8 Hello World from React Native
- 100 Days of Code
- R1D7 Reading Mastering React
- R1D6 Humble Mobile Development Bundle
- R1D5 CloudWatch and Auth0 Rabbit Hole
- R1D4 Buffer API
- 75 Years of Culinary Tradition at Frank Fat's
January 2018
- R1D3 Learning More Python Lists and Exploring the Wordpress API
- R1D2 Profiling Python
- Exploring Washington's Majestic State Capitol
- Crocker Art Museum
- Tragedy on the Mountain
- Next Stop, Carson City: The Capital of Nevada, from a Photographer's Perspective
- Trenton New Jersey
- 2017 A Year in Review
- Oskar's Heavy Boots
- Obama's Journey to Discover His Roots
- Looking Back on 2017
2017
December 2017
- A Painting Comes to Life
- Using Plex with Nextcloud
- SQLite DB Migrations with PRAGMA user_version
- A Robot With a Soul
November 2017
October 2017
- Dockerized PostgreSQL and Django for Local Development
- I Want to Become a Core Python Developer
- Python Mocks Test Helpers
- Backing up and Restoring MySQL with mysqldump
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
- Best Burrito in Olympia
- Bicycle
- Buffalo Trace Distillery and the Birth of Bourbon
- Images of America Salt Lake City
- Patricia and Shawna at Rhythm & Rye
- Lunch at the Driskill Hotel
- Utah State Capitol Building
- Suisun Valley Review
- Sacramento Then and Now
- Providence Rhode Island
- Big Ass Burger at Roaring Fork
- Pioneer Memorial Museum
June 2017
- Vegan Rock at Space Concert Club
- Conversation with David Scherer Water in Olympia
- Salem Oregon
- My Landlord Wrote This Book
- Olympia Washington
- Chicken, Waffles, and Beer at Avenues Proper
- Mecca for Mormons
- Thai Food and Stories with Asma and Rachel
- Coming of Age in the Craw
- Hip Hop Hawaii
- Images of America - Early Carson City
- Indianapolis Indiana
May 2017
- Spring Security, Webjars, and MIME type error
- A Brief History of Kamehameha
- Firkin & Fox
- Install Netbeans on Debian Stable
- Using gtk-doc with Anjuta on Debian Stable
- Terminal Reader Mode with Pandoc and Less
- Posting to Wordpress via Email with Mutt
- Reading gz files with zcat
- Help Out With Packages You Use in Debian
- Using Owncloud Client for Nextcloud Server on Debian Stable
- Testing Syntax Errors in Apache Config
April 2017
- Change the Default Terminal Editor in Debian
- Images of America - Sacramento's Capitol Park
- Do not Install Karma Globally
- Capitol Complex and Nevada Day Parade
- Injecting Stuff into your Python Path
- Nevada State Museum
- Boston Massachusetts
- Using the Flask CLI
- Follow Me on Twitter CTA on Ghost and Wordpress
- Running Flask Tests without installing the app
- Dockerized Laravel and MySQL for local development
- Thoughts on "Historic Tales from the Texas Republic"
- American Railroads: The True Story of Hell on Wheels
- Migration to Ghost and Other Goodies
March 2017
February 2017
- Memories of Sacramento
- California State Railroad Museum
- Sacramento History Museum
- Old Town Sacramento
- Thoughts on "Getting Things Done"
- South Lake Tahoe
January 2017
- Austin Texas
- Thoughts on "Sacramento Renaissance"
- Standard Notes is a Better Project than Braindump
- 100% Uptime*
- Cafe at Adele's
- Frankfort Kentucky
2016
December 2016
- Happy New Year and Happy Travels!
- Thoughts on "A Short History of Carson City"
- UTA Trax
- Wikivoyage
- California State Capitol Building
- An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
November 2016
- Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
- Getting Started with Laravel on Ubuntu
- Red Iguana, Holy Mole!
- Clark Planetarium and "A Beautiful Planet"
- Artisan Hipster Coffee in Sacramento
- Thoughts on "Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past"
- Polarr; Professional Photo Editing on Linux
- Salt Lake City Utah
- Citizen Hotel
- Autograph Collection by Marriott
- Whatever hacky script you are writing already exists in GNU Core Utilities
- That UI Bug with Missing Data is a Security Issue
- Laravel Homestead on Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC
- First Steps with Laravel and Homestead
- Tunnel to Production PostgreSQL Database
- Fish Face Poke Bar
- Delta King Restaurant
- Casinos of Carson City
- Carson City Nevada
October 2016
- Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
- Development on Windows
- Working with NuGet CLI
- Blue Oaks at Starlite Lounge
- Sacramento Regional Transit
- Capital Corridor
- Sacramento California
- Remote Root Access for MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
September 2016
- Alpine Linux, wget, and ca-certificates
- /etc/motd
- I Inherited an Open Source Project
- Vim is Awesome
- Recovering from Syntax Errors in /etc/rc.conf in FreeBSD
- Installing Slack on Ubuntu
- Working with chruby and nvm on Ubuntu
- Installing Nextcloud on a FreeBSD VPS
August 2016
- Version 0.4.3 of Braindump, I Need More Functional Tests.
- Show all Flask Routes
- How to Ship a Simple Feature in Two Months
- Find Dead Links on Your Jekyll Blog with HTML Proofer
- Portable MFA
- Coursera Rails Module 2 Notes
- Coursera Rails Module 3 Notes
- Notes on Steve Krug's 'Don't Make Me Think'
- Notes on Mastering Sublime Text
- Become a Rails Developer
- Coursera Rails Week 1 Notes
- Javascript ES6
- The 90's Web
July 2016
- Documentation Driven Development
- Installing LXQt on Debian Testing
- No Justice, No Peace
- Using org-mode with Jekyll
- Org Mode To Google Docs and Beyond
May 2016
- Braindump Versions, Release Notes, and the Road Ahead
- Recreating Foreign Keys with Alembic
- Version 0.3.0 of Braindump Released
- Twitter Has Become Unbearable
April 2016
- Millenial Math
- Don’t Get Cancer
- I Miss Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- My First Pip Package
- Personalized Emails
- pip-save NPM Style Package Management for Python
- Donate to Open Source Apps
- Growing the CircleCI Community with Discourse
March 2016
- Version 0.2.6 of Braindump Released
- Types and Roles If Not Exists in PostgreSQL
- Hooked on Fonics, and the Tragedy of Domain Name Driven Business Naming
- Windows 10 is Awesome
January 2016
2015
December 2015
October 2015
September 2015
- Installing Leiningen on Windows
- Nikki Wertish and the UbuTab Scam
- How to make $25,000 in 15 Easy Steps
August 2015
- Upgrading and Restarting Salt on OS X
- Using cgit
- Making cgit Pretty
- Installing cgit + nginx on Debian Jessie
- Using Virt-Manager on Debian
July 2015
- Configuring Mutt for Gandi Mail (IMAP and SMTP)
- Hacking an Angular.JS game for Fun and (fake) Profit
- ezBadge v2: Now in Stunning Javascript HD
- Introducing ezBadge
June 2015
May 2015
January 2015
- Salting your LXC Container Fleet
- Programming Sockets in Python
- Proxy Everything into a Linux Container with nginx
- UbuTab Case Study: How to be Taken Seriously
- Installing Node.js + Ghost in an Ubuntu 14.04 LXC Container
- Integrate ownCloud in Ubuntu with Symbolic Links
- User Interfaces
- Removing a Public Facing User Page in OS X Server Wiki
- I am like 6 days late on my 2014 post
2014
December 2014
November 2014
- Convert Markdown to PDF in Sublime Text
- Built In PDF Magic in Debian
- Connect LibreOffice Base to MySQL
October 2014
August 2014
June 2014
May 2014
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
2013
October 2013
2012
November 2012
- Faux Frenchmen Video
- Serendipity
- Joys of Mentorship
- Thanksgiving
- Using a SmartCard of CAC with Ubuntu
- System 76's All in One Sable Complete Desktop
- Experimenting with Danger
- Faux Frenchmen
2011
June 2011
- 18th Annual Hamilton Street Festival
- Little Italy Open Air Film Festival 2011
- Sowebo Arts Fest 2011
- The Wire
- Welcome
- Bus
- I Miss the Days
- I should be studying
- Blank Slate
May 2011
- Sowebo Arts and Music Festival 2011
- Leo Rosten
- Way Back Machine
- Next
- The Beltway
- There is no Purpose
- Creative Commons and Open Source Media
- Hackers for Charity
- Unity and Netbook a Match Made in Heaven
April 2011
- How Advertising Ruined the Internet
- Wikibooks
- Editing from Lynx
- The Story of Linux
- Patent Absurdity: Courtesy of FSF
- The Code Linux
- Documentary Gamers
- Youtube Live Launched
March 2011
February 2011
- Useful Open Source Software: PSPP
- LibreOffice 3.3.1 Released Today
- Vendetta Online – Homegrown Space Age MMORPG
- Oh, the whole windows rant? It gets better
- Help! My computer is Obese
- I sold all my shit
- BB Blogger
- That rush of excitement
- Banshee is Coming to Windows
- GNOME 3 Alpha Released
- Useful Open Source Software: Inkscape
- Smartphone Wars Continue: Apple to Release iPhone “Nano”
- Useful Open Source Software: Bluefish Editor
- Useful Open Source Software: FreeMind
- New Nokia Phone will Use Windows OS: What is the fate of MeeGo?
- Useful Open Source Software: GIMP
- LibreOffice: The Future of Office in Linux
- Useful Open Source Software: OpenOffice.org
- Tech Hacking
- Google Launches Web Based App Store for Android
- Always, Always, Always Make Backups
- Scribe Fire
2010
December 2010
- Moving Part 2
- Moving!!!
- Ode to Open Source: Desktop Environments
- Ode to Open Source: Linux Distributions Past and Present
- Who is Using What?
- Ode to Open Source: Brief History of Linux
- Kindle Contest Over
November 2010
- Back in the Stone Age
- December Will be an "Ode to Open Source"
- Mariah Carey Christmas Album $6.99 on iTunes.
- Hospitals Bad for your health?
- Why don't we have songs like this anymore? Alice's Restaurant
- GRE Study Tips: Books, Apps, Websites
- Long term approach to veterans care
- AIDS prevention pill
- Medal of Honor Speak Out
- Cheesecake
- Dr. Bob's 10 Steps
- The GRE
- Top 5 Books You Should be Reading in November. :)
- New Blogger Templates are Awesome
- Half Way Mark
- Election 2010
- Nanowrimo + Kindle Contest
- Let the Voting Begin
October 2010
- Voting Beings Tomorrow!
- "Kids in Key West" by Colleen Braun
- "The Spot" by Michelle Wentling
- Scene From a Movie
- How to be a Writer
- Never Put Your Email Address on Craigslist
- The Difference Between a Latte and a Cappuccino
- Attn: [A Poem]
- Author Profile - Stieg Larsson
- Kindle Contest Update
- Raising the Stakes for the Short Story Contest
- "Savages and Traitors" by Dan Price
- Kindle Contest - Clarfications, Comments, and Notes
- "The Kindle Did It" By: Gail Farrelly
- Kindle Contest
- Would you like a free Kindle for Christmas
- Newspaper
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
May 2010
- Daily News Digest : Palin, Military Health, and Senator Sessions
- This weeks events to be covered
- Jamendo
- Guess What!
- Tea Party Part Two
- Tea Party?
- Import
- Summer Vacation
April 2010
- 3 packs
- Finals
- Finished Reading First Textbook for the Semester
- Apology
- Miss You
- Compliments
- Tonights Dinner - Best Yet
- Tired
- Hospital Clocks
- Lasagna
- Tonight's Dinner - Herb Crusted Chicken
- Complaints about Windows 7
- Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
- Windows 7
- Script Frenzy
March 2010
- First Night
- Patient Clotted
- Utilizing Proper Resources
- How to write a research paper
- Idea: Start a Trade Journal
February 2010
2009
December 2009
- Crossword Puzzles
- The Senate is Wasting time and money. What else is new?
- The importance of planning
- Moving
- Stroke Cure
- Hey, remember that whole swine flu scare? Just Kidding - Its actually less fatal than seasonal flu.
- Car Fire on 495
- Left, Right, Left?
- Top 10 Health Scares of the Decade
- 2012 Green Party Presidential Candidate
- Late: World Aids Day
- The Secret
- Chock Full of Nuts
- If your neighbor's cousin's friend is lonely, you may have a good chance of being lonely, too.
- Direct TV
- Pizza
- 13 New Stem Cell Lines - Big News
- Music
- Why I want to Quit Smoking
November 2009
- Tonight's Dinner
- Rain
- Something to Say
- Advancement Results
- Very Successful Black Friday
- Back to Bethesda
October 2009
September 2009
- Being Alive
- Susan the Poet
- Apheresis
- History of iTunes
- Breath of Air
- About Blogging
- Et Tu Twitter?
- I am not a huge fan of ignorant people
- I feel fat! Golden Corral
- Long Awaited Healthcare Plan finally unveiled - No Public Option
- Ohio Passes Non-Discrimination Bill
- 1999 Predicting the Future
- Blogs of Note - Where are they now? Part 1
- Google Fast Flip
- Disease
- Snake
- Mind Boggling
- Uncompleted To Do Lists
- I <3 My Mac
- Protesting Health Care
- You cannot solve all the worlds problems
- Don't count on the promotion
- Public Disapproves Obamas Health Care Efforts
- Teaching and Learning
- Advancement Test
August 2009
- My First Stick
- Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack Review
- The Dialysis Ward
- About Last Night
- Beware of Google Profits, it is a scam!
- Professional Guest Transportation Equipment Movement Coordinator (Valet Parker)
- We may need to rethink this whole Congress thing
- Cash For Clunkers - Government Initiative: My Thoughts
- Happy Birthday Mr. President
- Philosophy on Writing in General
- USNS Comfort - Welcome Home!
- Almost Done With Class
- Plagiarism on Craigslist
July 2009
June 2009
- Ministry of Sound Podcast
- Offer Nissim
- Patience
- Star 69 Records
- There Are Five Types of White Blood Cells
- National HIV Testing Day
- A Little Recognition Goes A Long Way
- Mush
- Quit Meter Day 1
- Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn
- The Way News Works
- The Weekend of a Hemodialysis Student
- Fluid and Electrolyte Balance
- Quit Meter
- Twitter is the bearer of bad news
- Plasma Exchange
- Back in Portsmouth
- Finding New Songs in Your Old Music Collection
- Let the Sunshine In - Emotional Moment
- Macbook Pro, long lines, another hotel
- 21st Birthday Weekend
- The Weather in Virginia
- The Story of My Most Serious Injury
- Thoughts on Blogging
- Have you ever seen the Silence of the Lambs?
- If you were wondering
- The Girl With Snot in her Nose. - part one.
April 2009
- Mark Shuttelworth - Renegade Bad Ass and My Hero.
- Pay per GB?
- Ubuntu 9.04 Coming Soon. Whats New?
- Converting MOV to AVI
- DJ Doug Strong - April Showers
- Castle Crashers
- Hulu
- Open Source and Digital Divide
- Another Falled Brother and Sister.
March 2009
- A few Days In September
- Blues win... :(
- Broken Steel Interview
- Fallout Fan Fiction
- Fanatic
- Star Oceans
- Change is Coming and Kidney School
- National Medal of Honor Day
- Pre Test
- What I learned in Module 1 of Kidney School
- Highly Anticipated Downloadable Content "The Pitt" for Fallout 3 Not Out Yet! - Full of Glitches
- Snow Flake
- Now its time to move forward
- Year of the Blue Jackets!
February 2009
- Avoiding Writing
- Boredom in Expository Writing Class
- Sheila
- Squirrel
- Tyson Corner Virgina
- Gerald
- Hillarious
- Internet Explorer
- Facebook Irony
- Flowers on the road
- You Can't Put Out This Flame
- Digital Divide
- Plagiarism
January 2009
- Word of the Day : Engender
- The Inauguration
- White House.Gov
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Howl By Ginsberg
- Untitled #1
- Song of the Day - Beat it : Michael Jackson
- Worst Cars
- Song of the Day - Memory : Elaine Page
- I Hate Technology
- Song of the Day - Unthinking Majority
- Song of the Day: Buttons - SIA
- Why are we open?
- 2008
- Alone
2008
December 2008
- Kanye's Journey into R&B
- poke.
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Washington DC
- Elect the Dead
- Finished Reading - Great Joy
- Great Chinese
November 2008
October 2008
- 10 Reasons not to vote for McCain / Palin
- One Down Millions To Go
- Electoral College and Clueless Voters
- Rudolpf Barho - Building the Green Movement
- Department of Peace
- C Section
September 2008
- Let's make sloppy joes
- Sicko
- Faces of Poverty
- A flies eye view
- Large Intestine Lying on a Table
- Lazy Weekend Trip to the Zoo
- Palm and Ubuntu
- Google Chrome
June 2008
April 2008
February 2008
January 2008
- Public Transportation
- Paranoia
- Smile
- South Park
- Cry Out
- Fly, Cry, Die, Goodbye
- Klub Life: Short Story