Abe Voelker

Abe Voelker

Programming, guns, ISP/telecom, rural life. Ex-farm boy

My Writing

Building old Rubies on Ubuntu 22.04
Frozen out: 25 years of broadband failure in rural northern Wisconsin
Kubernetes on Rails: now free for everyone!
Adding book reviews to the site
Skipping the database with stateless tokens: a hidden Rails gem and a useful Web technique
Doxxing countermeasures for faceposters
Email’s successor: the personal log and inter-personal protocol
Amazon removes hundreds of products referencing AK-47s and AR-15s
On the death of my family’s dairy farm
Lessons learned from launching my first screencast series / training course, Kubernetes on Rails
Deploying a Ruby on Rails application to Google Kubernetes Engine: a step-by-step guide - Part 5: Conclusion, further topics and Rails extras
Deploying a Ruby on Rails application to Google Kubernetes Engine: a step-by-step guide - Part 4: Enable HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt and cert-manager
Deploying a Ruby on Rails application to Google Kubernetes Engine: a step-by-step guide - Part 3: Cache static assets using Cloud CDN
Deploying a Ruby on Rails application to Google Kubernetes Engine: a step-by-step guide - Part 2: Up and running with Kubernetes
Deploying a Ruby on Rails application to Google Kubernetes Engine: a step-by-step guide - Part 1: Introduction and creating cloud resources
Why I’m switching from AWS to Google Cloud (GCP) for new personal projects
Generating YouTube-like IDs in Postgres using PL/V8 and Hashids
Adding Elm to a Rails application
Simple transactional email links using JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
You got Haskell in my Ruby! Cleaner Ruby validations using the Either monad and Kleisli gem
Why I don’t use Docker much anymore
Simple, free continuous integration (CI) of Rails Docker images using fig, make, and CircleCI
Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and basically object-oriented programming
Rails Development Using Docker and Vagrant
Final Ode to OpenEdge ABL Part 3: Parting Advice
Final Ode to OpenEdge ABL Part 2: Ruby Helps You REST Easy
Final Ode to OpenEdge ABL Part 1: a Ruby Adapter is Born
GitLaw: GitHub for Laws and Legal Documents - a Tourniquet for American Liberty
OpenEdge ABL syntax highlighting and GitHub support
A Whole New Blog!
rtorrent XMLRPC over nginx SCGI
menosgrande - My First Ruby on Rails App!
Cure for the Plague: A Theoretical Progress / OpenEdge ABL Migration Plan
Longchar sucks. Introducing BigCharacter
OpenEdge ABL Utility: Get Program Parameters (Main Block) from R-code
Progress / OpenEdge ABL Language and DBMS Considered Harmful
Progress / OpenEdge / ABL Syntax Highlighting for HTML & Wordpress