CryptoZombies

Just finished the 6 lessons to date. Here's my zombies. Next task, write my own smart contract and figure out how to hook it up to Web 2.0.

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Laravel Full Stack Project: Setting up Laravel/Homestead using VirtualBox 5.2 and Vagrant >=2.1.2

These past few days I have been re-acquainting myself with the "L" in my LAMP stack of development tools. My Linux distribution of choice is Ubuntu because it serves my needs as both a desktop OS that runs all of the open source tools that I use.  After a few false starts I managed to …

So, what’s Tracy been up to lately?

My current side project: I am learning Laravel. I have done much of my web development coding using PHP. I am hoping that this will allow me to use my PHP experience and re-vamp it for current best practices. 

What’s next? My re-entry into the “Matrix”.

After spending the past few years focusing on simplifying my life I am circling back to address the remaining 10 years of my IT Career. Thanks to the radical simplification of my financial obligations I don't need a huge salary to survive. However, I still need to feel that my contributions to a company are …

YouTube videos added to site and UpWork Profile – August 2018

This summer is speeding right along so before it's gone I wanted to update my blog for my garden and upcoming work projects. I finally uploaded all my video content from my phone to YouTube. After working on a video for my Upwork Profile, I decided I might as well put the rest of my …

What I Learned From My Year Working on the eBay Platform

I worked the eBay auction platform from Winter of 2016 to early January of 2018, a little over a year. I didn't shut off my store until just a few months ago because I wasn't sure that I was done with eBay until then. Since I am sure that I am done now with eBay, …

Pickled Pepper Mishap

I've started getting peppers in quantity already. I decided to pickle the peppers that are ripe now together as a mix of sweet and hot peppers.  In this mix are green bell, purple bell, one tiny yellow bell (part of a pack of "carnival" pepper seeds), mostly yellow banana peppers, a few cayenne, several jalapeno …