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Cloudflared'd

The backbone of the internet, now available for peasants like you and I

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Mayhem: Pioneering Black Metal

Their story is better than their music

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Happy Blogthday

apoplol.xyz/blog turns 1

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lazy.sh

How I've been coping with my iLife

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Regrets

I've had a few. But then again, too few to mention.

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Thoughts on Some Music

Some cool music recommendations no one asked for

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Recording: Backbeat

Backbeat, counting time.

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Honest Lies

How I learned that no one knows anything.

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The Second-Biggest Lie I've Been Told

I was just an innocent undergrad.

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Franz Reichelt: Riding the Coattails of Failure

Inventors killed by their own inventions.

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Shower With Your Dad Simulator

There's some pretty cool fun stuff on the internet, but there's also a lot of stupid garbage. Sometimes, these two types of things overlap and we get modern-age marvels like Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: This game is actually a lot of fun, with responsive

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The second recursive Tweet in the history of the universe

Craziest thing to happen all week in the Twitter(-bot) community

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OraKill: Reach For the Sky

Come celebrate ✌The Cloud✌ by listening to some vinyl with me

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apoplol.xyz has its first RCA

RCA-00001: Flying too high on wings of feather and wax

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Axl Rose VS Slash's grandmother

Around the time Guns N' Roses first formed, before they'd recorded any demo tapes, and long before anyone had been pronounced dead (they came back, it's cool), or demanded a 4-million dollar Michael Bay-esque music video where they jump from an oil tanker to swim

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Managing apoplol.xyz

Behind the scenes at apoplol.xyz

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I'm an international hit (and you are too) II: Reloaded

The past few days I've been playing around with getting better monitoring and analytics for this site (and consequently learning about how to use monitoring and analytics). I chose a program called Splunk for this service, since I already have a pair of their branded socks. Getting it

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Click-Clack

One of my friends found this blog, and shamed me for my high frequency posting. Who goes to someone's website to criticize how often they update it? I've blocked them from here so as not to further taint their internet browsing experience. The reason I post

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My Favourite Amazon Reviewer

James F. Colobus from Pittsburgh, PA is the 3,986,423rd top reviewer on Amazon. He wrote 60 reviews between the years 2000 and 2004 and has been inactive since, with no trace of what is presumably a pseudonym, left on the internet. He also unknowingly helped influence and shape

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The OtheR Pandemic

If anyone has been reading my writing you might have accurately guessed that I am a big fan of the second-most thing. I want to hear the seldom-told story of the silver medalist. First place gets enough press, and everyone loves an underdog. I am writing this post to help

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Deep Fried Kubernetes

Kubernetes, or k8s if you're cool, is an open-source container-orchestration system originally designed by Google. It was released 6 years ago, uses a nautical naming theme (means 'helmsman' or 'pilot' in Greek. so cute.), and most jobs in DevOps (systems admins that know how

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Horses, Nazis, and Romance: The Story of Human Heart Catheterization

Psychotic surgeon sufficiently solves a stifling situation

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Dudley the Dragon: King of Kings

Before I learned how to use the bathroom independently, I was a big Barney the Dinosaur fan. I think I've had enough life experience to understand that Dudley the Dragon was the superior reptilian entertainer.

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I'm an international hit (and you are too)

Thank you all so so much, I can't believe that I've had this much interest in my blog in such a short time. So to my most active proprieters, I just have to say, from the bottom of my heart, 01000110 01010101 01000011 01001011 01010101. Why?

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Album: Redtail by Azure

I glide down from my mountain, bringing with me all my pain