Hugohttps://kimschlesinger.com/en-usMon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/path/Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:59:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/path/This is a companion blog post for a presentation I gave at the February 2020 DenverScript Meetup. You can find the video recording and slide deck on my talks page. The Path Variable PATH is an enviornment variable. The variable is a colon-delimited string. The directory before each colon contains executable code and is invoked through a command, like pwd. To see the value, run echo $PATH from your command linehttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/deep-work-2/Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:59:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/deep-work-2/In my last blog post, I wrote about how I’ve developed some new work habits after reading Cal Newport’s book Deep Work. Applying the techniques have transformed how I approach challenging projects at work and in my spare time, and I’m reading, writing, and creating more than ever before. Although Deep Work motivated me to change my habits, as I was reading the book, I noticed a quiet and persistent voice in my head telling me this style of work might not be for me.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/deep-work/Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:00:18 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/deep-work/For the last fifteen weeks, I have been slowly tearing down and rebuilding my schedule and habits to support the style of work that Cal Newport describes in his 2016 book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Although this is the first time I’ve read the book, I’ve been familiar with Newport and his ideas about learning and productivity for several years. When I was an Instructional Designer at a coding bootcamp, I read Newport’s Study Hacks blog and created student materials to help people use Active Recall while studying.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/search-cli/Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/search-cli/Sometimes you have to execute a complex command that you’ve used in the past. Instead of using the up-arrow key to scroll through your previous commands one at a time, here are two ways you can run a command without typing it again. 1. The history command Type history and hit enter Find the number of the command you want to run again Use one of the following commands: !https://kimschlesinger.com/post/zero-to-sre/Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/zero-to-sre/In the Spring of 2019, I spent a lot of time writing and giving a talk called Zero to SRE. Here are two blog posts from my company that cover the content of that talk: How To Invest In Junior Engineers Day One for Your Junior Engineerhttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/kubernetes-commands/Fri, 08 Mar 2019 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/kubernetes-commands/The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Exam is a challenging, hands-on exam that requires you to configure and deploy applications and services in a real Kubernetes cluster. In this tutorial, I show how to run some basic kubectl commands that will get you started preparing for the CKAD. In this video, I show how to do the following in a Kubernetes cluster: View and switch contexts Setup your preferred text editor vim is the default, but can be set to nano View pods in all namespaces View namespaces Create a namespace called practice Create a pod from yaml generated by the --dry-run flag Delete the pod Create the pod in the practice namespace Exec into the pod To see the commands, checkout this github repo:https://kimschlesinger.com/post/knowledge-wiki/Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/knowledge-wiki/Kim’s Knowledge Wiki I am a software developer, and in order to keep my skills sharp, I spend a lot time during my evenings and weekends attending tech talks, reading technical books and watching video tutorials. I used to take notes using a pen or pencil in a notebook, or use multiple digital formats like Evernote, Google Docs, and the Mac notes app. At the end of 2017, I started keeping my notes in a github wiki.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/heroku/Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/heroku/Heroku is the simplest way I know to deploy an application that requries read and write access to a database, like you would need for an API that can do CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Destroy). By the end of this tutorial, you will see how to: Set up an application on Heroku Provision a postgres DB on Heroku Run knex commands to create the schema and seed a production database Here’s a github gist with the commands: https://gist.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/read-more-2/Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/read-more-2/At the beginning of July 2017, I set out to increase how much I read each month. It has been 28 days, and thus far I’ve fallen short of my goal, so I’m reflecting on my progress and making changes so I can keep reading. Original Goal and Progress My goal was to read 700 minutes in 28 days. I ended up reading 550 minutes in 28 days. Insights 25 minutes of uninterrupted reading is a stretch for me.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/read-more/Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/read-more/I have always admired people who are voracious readers, and as an adult, I have gone through several phases where I read whenever I can find a spare moment. Unfortunately, during the last six months, I have read very little aside from the newsfeed on my phone. A few days ago, I realized I wanted to change this when I was listening to an interview of Karen Walker on the Women in Tech Show.https://kimschlesinger.com/post/active-learning/Sat, 06 Aug 2016 12:32:18 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/post/active-learning/Why? Attending a conference talk can expose you to new ideas or technologies, but you are passive during the presentation. In order to gain insight into new concepts, or be able to apply new skills, after the talk you will have to do the work of transforming your notes into an active learning experience. In this blog post, I explain how. Step 1: Before the talk, set your intention. Prior to the talk, you should decide what you want to be able to do with the information you encounter.https://kimschlesinger.com/reading-list/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/reading-list/Software/Code Developer Testing by Alexander Tarlinder The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell Refactoring JavaScript by Evan Burchard Leadership & Work Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees As If They’re Real People by Ron Wagner Drive by Daniel Pink Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek The 4-Hour Workweek< by Timothy Ferriss Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H.https://kimschlesinger.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/about/I am a technologist and educator, and I currently work as a Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. If you’re curious about my work, please check out my tech education work samples. Before DigitalOcean, I was a Site Reliability Engineer at Fairwinds Ops, I spent two years as the Head of Education and Content for Develop Denver, and I was an instructor and curriculum designer at Galvanize, a codeschool based in Denver, Colorado.https://kimschlesinger.com/talks/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/talks/Beyond Block Diagrams: Different Ways of Understanding Kubernetes Architecture KubeCon + CloudNative North America 2021 Video Slides nginx and Node.js Denver Node.js Meetup, May 2020 Video Slides Github Repo $PATH, /bin and $PS1 DenverScript, February 2020 Video Slides Fuzzy Lines: Aligning Teams to Monitor Your Application Ecosystem USENIX LISA, October 2019 Video Slides Refactoring for Accessibility Denver Node.js Meetup, May 2019 Video Slides Zero to SRE Devops Days Rockies, April 2019 SRECon 19 Americas, March 2019 Denver DevOps Meetup, October 2018 Video Slides $PATH Lightning Talk BoulderJS, November 2018 Slides A Beginner’s Guide to Kubernetes Develop Denver 2018 Video Slides Github Repo How to be a Kick-Ass Teacher Develop Denver 2017 Video Slideshttps://kimschlesinger.com/work-samples/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 UTChttps://kimschlesinger.com/work-samples/Webinars DigitalOcean Tech Talks Sample Code Interactive Workshop Guest Instructor for the Summer of Kubernetes Workshop Kubernetes Observability: Configuring Prometheus and Grafana GitHub Repo Video Technical Course Kubernetes: Package Management with Helm