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I heard this in a a sentence recently and laughed at the dead on accuracy of it: Do not do what you wouldn’t want your daughter to do! Self-respect seems to mean a lot of things different people, but what was it to me? Finding it was a struggle, but maybe one that came easier… Continue Reading New Year’s Resolve: What is Self-Respect?

My father passed away Dec 24th 2016, it was my son’s 10th birthday. The time leading up to his death was hard. He was not well, bed-ridden and unhappy for a long time. In the last year of his life he was moved to Nephi, Utah be closer to his brother, my uncle Ted, where… Continue Reading 2 Years Passed

Over the course of my nerdy career the innate need to type out commands, rather than a copy-paste has proven to be of the highest value to me in terms of becoming familiar with systems. I think many in this line of work would agree, it’s just better. So today I’m tasked with some work… Continue Reading Quick Note: FFmpeg, on a mac with homebrew

I’ve had reason to renew my interest in the streaming media space again, and have been toying with Wowza MS in a few different forms.Deploying here on virtualized Ubuntu Server 16.04 in VMWare Workstation with 4Gb RAM, 40Gb drive space and a bridged network with the host device.  Installing Wowza Streaming Engine 4.1.2: To use wowza… Continue Reading Installing Wowza Streaming Engine 4.1.2 “silent installer”:

Content protection has been a major issue since the beginning of the digital era and its importance is only growing. Services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Spotify, Apple Music etc base their entire business model on the delivery of digital media to end users. The more securely these services can protect their streams, the more… Continue Reading Securing Video Streams – Teaming Techniques

Officially, Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. I’ve been playing with a kubernetes environment for a while here and have done a few nifty things with it; running game servers, little golang dev boxes to fool around with, etc. I find myself facing a familiar challenge –… Continue Reading K8s Sandboxing