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Ashton MacKenzie

Ashton MacKenzie

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The Guild of the Magi – Pre Alpha

January 20, 2023May 11, 2023 A MacKenzie

My final project for Flatiron School, where we learn about project management, development hell, and browser games.

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Why React is Like Knitting

October 4, 2022October 4, 2022 A MacKenzie

Why doing things the React way is analogous to advanced knitting construction techniques.

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SQL Server Tips I Learned This week

August 11, 2023August 11, 2023 A MacKenzie

Always remember to name the SQL implementation when searching for how to write a query so that you can ask for how a thing you remember working in one implementation works for the one you’re landed with.

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Mastodon Out Of Space Diagnostics with tootctl

July 3, 2023August 11, 2023 A MacKenzie

Tools I use to look for the underlying cause to see if it is something other than neglecting (optimistically) to turn on retention policies for remote content.

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So How’s The New Job Goin’

June 10, 2023August 11, 2023 A MacKenzie

Honestly, this is about as soul-shattering as discovering that I liked (a proper, scratch-made) ranch dressing (on pizza, even). I think I might actually like Java.

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Work Treats

June 4, 2023June 5, 2023 A MacKenzie

Hello, if you’ve landed on this page you have probably encountered a treat I brought to the office. I will be keeping nutrition blocks, photos, and recipes of the treats I bring here so that you can reference them and make them yourselves.

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How do you accidentally have a mastodon server?

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 A MacKenzie

From 403s on every page to running my own mastodon instance, deploying is pretty hands off these days.

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March – A Retrospective

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 A MacKenzie

If you don’t schedule maintenance yourself, maintenance will schedule itself for you.

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Migrating from Standalone Email to Hosted Email on Name.com | Troubleshooting SPF and DKIM (Part 2)

March 5, 2023March 5, 2023 A MacKenzie

The Thrilling Conclusion you’ve been waiting for! Did he ever get DKIM configured properly? What email service did he migrate to? Was there any downtime??

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Deploying a React Ruby app on Fly.io if you’ve never deployed a thing in your life

February 14, 2023March 1, 2023 A MacKenzie

Yet another adventure in the lands of Heroku alternatives.

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español Technology

Manejar Solicitudes Que Actualizan Varias Tablas

February 5, 2023 A MacKenzie

«Se llama ‹Lógica de Negocio› » Empieza simplemente, tienes una relación de mucho a mucho, o posible una relación de uno a mucho o una

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Troubleshooting SPF and DKIM for Hosted Mail with Name.com (Part 1)

January 25, 2023March 5, 2023 A MacKenzie

Regularly reviewing what products and services are being paid for even if you’re sure you know everything is fine is, in part, meant to capture exactly this kind of situation so that a change plan can be put in place.

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