where cats herd themselves

Topics

Technology
CNET have too many pictures for you? Here ya go.
Not enough swearing on HN?  BAM!
Need tech news without getting bogged down in the actual tech?
Better still, let's all learn about business plans and trade shows.
Retirement contribution or a new case mod?

Infosec
Lost your webcam's public IP address?  This can help.
While you are at it, have a second helping of humble pie.
What do you get when you mix 1-part journalism, 2-parts nerd and a dash of chutzpah?
"You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." -Morpheus

Economics
Bright guy, meh color choice.
Don't worry the website will eventually load.  It's worth the wait.
A Keynesian, sure.  But sometimes the other side is worth exploring.
Enough playing around.  Let's get this party started.
Back in my day, apple pie was warm, cars were reliable and markets were free.

Energy
"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." -Eleanor Roosevelt
Renewable energy, minus the fish.
Long-term energy source, minus the humans.
They seem like they'd be a fun bunch of at a dinner party.
As a kid, I would dig holes in my backyard for an underground tunnel system.  Little did I know then, that I was a prodigy.

Deep Cuts

Quantum Computing
Start here.
Move on to here.
And then, if your brain still hasn't exploded, come over here.

Big Data / Machine Learning
The great debate, explained.
Here is a great MLlib tutorial to get you started.

Projects

My 4-node Raspberry Pi 3 Docker Swarm cluster running Hyperiot.
Start Here: https://blog.hypriot.com/post/how-to-setup-rpi-docker-swarm/
This was also a great help: https://howchoo.com/g/njy4zdm3mwy/how-to-run-a-raspberry-pi-cluster-with-docker-swarm
I used this for the case.
And these for the heat sinks, which are surprisingly needed.

Link Farm

If you are interested in what I like and use, here's my list.  YMMV

Networking

Mikrotik - Very affordable, full featured and very fast.  I've purchased more RB750s than I can remember.

Fortigate - Exceptional NGFW with security features and price to match.

Open-Mesh - Meraki at a fraction of the cost and most of the features.

Hardware

Intel NUC - The Skull Canyon makes an excellent ESXi host.

Apple - I've been a Mac fanboy since OS X was introduced

Dell XPS laptops - The infinity edge and performance make this worth the cost of the camera placement.

QNAP - Good OS, great performance.

Software

ProxMox - Free (almost) virtualization.

VMware - The undisputed, world champion.

ESET - My preferred AV; lightweight and affordable.

Kali - The workhorse of my toolkit.

SaaS

Office365 - E-mail, etc.
Dropbox - File sharing
Evernote - Centralized notes
Lastpass - Essential pw mgmt
Atera - IT shop mgmt
Splashtop - Remote access
New Relic - Perf & monitoring
Meraki - Solid MDM
C9 - My IDE of choice
Pivotal Tracker - Proj mgmt
Github - Git made easy

Connections

You can find me IRL around the Portland area.  And on these sites:
"Dog Says No!" - https://dog-says-no.com (A weekly web comic, authored by me and illustrated by a good friend.)
Steam - https://steamcommunity.com/id/big_d/ (How I get work done is anyone's guess.)
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dschrenk/ (It's mostly updated.)
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/danschrenk (I visit once every 5 years.)
GitHub - https://github/dschrenk (I'm a private repo kindof dev.)
Keybase - https://keybase.io/danschrenk (The best identity that no one uses.)