How to Choose Mountain Bike Brake Pads
Posted on November 6, 2022
(Last modified on January 2, 2023)
| Adriano
Whether you think about them all the time or never at all – mountain bike brakes are what keep you alive on those gnarly descents. And while the whole braking system matters, I’m not going to talk about rotor sizes, 2-piston vs. 4-piston, or lever angle; I’m talking about the humble brake pad.
I had long considered brake pad choice a foregone decision – resin (organic) pads are king and metal pads (sintered) are for Huffy!
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My Math Confession
Posted on September 23, 2021
| Adriano
I did math for the first time when I was 29 years old. This isn’t a self-deprecating snipe or feigned humility. I did math for the first time when I was 29 years old. When I finally did it for the first time – at least, the first recorded time – I didn’t know it had happened. It was six years later reading Paul Lockhart’s excellent piece entitled, “A Mathematician’s Lament” that I realized what I’d done; I’d finally done math all those years ago.
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Configuring Sierra Wireless RV55 for IVPN
Posted on March 20, 2021
| Adriano
After figuring out a problem after hours of struggle, the simplicity of the result often belies the difficulty of the process. When I look at the final configuration that I came up with in ACEManager, everything looks simple and obvious, but the process was far from it. That’s the case nearly every time I configure a new feature on my Sierra Wireless RV55 LTE router. This device is not made for consumers.
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My Wireless Internet Setup
Posted on October 21, 2020
| Adriano
If you’re reading this, you’re probably familiar with the fact that I’m permanently roaming, and I’d be foolish not to acknowledge the importance of my wireless setup in making that possible. Getting – and staying – connected while permanently roaming is nothing like paying the local cable cabal to get your house or apartment connected.
Remember the last show you binged on Netflix over the weekend? That consumed 20x most mobile users’ monthly data allotment, but you never had to think about data because when you’re wired you generally don’t pay for consumption.
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Farewell Estes Park
With a little bit of scofflaw
Posted on September 19, 2020
| Adriano
This is less about saying farewell to Estes Park than it is about a ride I’ve been eyeing for over five years. Not only did I have the wrong bike when I was here in September, 2015, but I learned that this route existed the day after I finished an out-and-back run of Trail Ridge Road on my old Giant roady. TRR is the downhill paved segment of today’s route.
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Roaming
No Destination
Posted on August 26, 2020
| Adriano
Where am I? I’ve been wanting to write about what I’ve been up to the past couple of months and keep putting it off because I convinced myself that I need to write a long and protracted post about why I’m living in a travel trailer. Oh yeah, I live in a travel trailer now. But I don’t think I’ll delve into why I felt compelled to leave NYC and become trailerfolk because it’s really not that profound or interesting.
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How to Use Linode Object Storage as a Terraform Backend
(or any other S3-compatible object store)
Posted on May 29, 2020
| Adriano
This is mostly a note to my future self since I couldn’t find any documentation on using Terraform with Linode Object Storage as a Terraform state backend. With that said, I hope to save other intrepid Linode users some time if they’re lucky enough to come across this post. While I’ve explained the problem in terms of Linode, the solution here applies to any non-S3 object store compatible with the S3 API.
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di-tui terminal UI player for di.fm
terminal tunes
Posted on March 12, 2020
| Adriano
Hey all, just a quick post about di-tui, my new di.fm terminal UI player. I’ve been playing hours of music with this player over the past two weeks and have to say that I really love it and am proud of its ease of use and simplicity.
Most people who know me know that I work almost exclusively in the terminal: tmux, mutt, slack-term, vim, and now di-tui and many more.
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Don't be Dangerous
Posted on September 15, 2019
| Adriano
Shipping production software requires a lot of housekeeping; so much so that many developers mentally block out just how much time a day they spend endlessly shepherding their work through the release lifecycle. Does the pull request have merge conflicts? Are tests passing? Is the linter happy? Is some other automated check failing?
Most of these failures require intervention; whether it’s a finicky spec failing in a test suite or something more serious like a merge conflict.
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JWTs Are Not the Enemy
get your FUD off my lawn
Posted on September 10, 2019
| Adriano
I finally felt compelled to write this after reading a little tidbit from a blog posted on Hacker News containing this perennial piece of technoFUD
One of the downsides with JWTs is that banning users or adding/removing roles is a little harder if you need the action to be immediate.
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Since the token is stored client side, there is no way to directly invalidate the token even if you mark the user as disabled in your database.
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