ndouglas/core

OPNsense GUI, API and systems backend

👋 Sup

• 💻 Software/DevOps Engineer, more of a generalist, always looking to get more time to expand my knowledge and strengthen my skillset 😃
• 🏥 Working for Agile Six on the VA.gov Modernization initiative, improving care and accessibility to resources for veterans of the United States military, their families and caregivers, etc.
• 👴 Pronouns: He/Him

📖 Currently Reading:

• The Eternal Frontier, by Tim Flannery

📓 Currently Working Through:

• The Ray Tracer Challenge, by Jamis Buck
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam practice

🥇 Current Goals:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist

⚒️ Projects

These are often embryonic and/or sitting idle for months at a time. There's only one of me and I have far more ambition and curiosity than time.

• 🦷 GoldenTooth: Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster projects
  • Cluster: Node configuration, cluster bootstrapping, GitOps configuration (Ansible, Terraform)
  • Bash: Cluster sugar scripts (Bash)
  • Kubernetes, the Excruciating Way: Journaling/documenting the process (Link) (Markdown)
• 🗡️ Hornvale: An experimental open-world roguelike/text adventure (Rust)
• 💻 Blackpool: An implementation of the Lox programming language and virtual machine (Rust)
• 👱‍♀️ Pinkmaiden: An endlessly scrolling image-sharing site, sometimes NSFW (Link) (Python, Terraform)
• 🌈 Sunhouse: A simple ray tracer (Rust)
• 📜 Darkdell: My blog (https://darkdell.net/) and static site generator (Rust)
• 🧊 Unity Hashing Grid: Fun little visual toy in Unity (C#)
• 🎮 Greenstone: A NES emulator that's somewhere in the PPU implementation (Rust)
• 🕴️ Resume: My résumé, which I'm rewriting (LaTeX)
• 🪦 Runestone: A text adventure game experiment (Prolog)
• 📏 Pebbleton: A general-purpose YAML rules engine that I started writing (Rust)

📕 Recently Finished Reading:

• Crafting Interpreters, by Robert Nystrom (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella Meadows (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, by Will Larson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, by Robert C. Martin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, by Robert C. Martin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (⭐⭐⭐½)
• ReWork by Jason Fried (⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Practices of an Agile Developer by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🎲 Free Time

• 🧱 building LEGO stuff with my kid
• 🎸 playing various musical instruments, chiefly bass guitar, drums, accordion, but the set expands and contracts pretty frequently
• 💪 exercising:
  • 🏋️‍♂️ lifting weights
  • 🚴 cycling
  • 🚣 rowing
• 👨‍🍳 cooking:
  • 🥖 baking
  • 🧀 cheesemaking
  • 🍝 general
• 🌵 not overwatering my succulents
• 🎥 watching movies
• 🎼 listening to music
• 📚 reading fiction (my favorite books are George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, if you couldn't tell from my project names)
• 🎲 not playing any of my ridiculous backlog of board games
• 🎮 not playing anything in my Steam library
• 🤖 currently top 3% on TryHackMe